Posted on 12/17/2017 12:52:02 AM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
New York Times resident conservative columnist Ross Douthat, who was a “NeverTrump” pundit during the 2016 election, has acknowledged President Donald Trump’s success in defeating the so-called “Islamic State” — and says Trump deserves credit for his foreign policy overall. In a column titled “The War Trump Won,” Douthat writes that “if you had told me in late 2016 that almost a year into the Trump era the caliphate would be all-but-beaten without something far worse happening in the Middle East, I would have been surprised and gratified.”
Last October, with Election Day looming, Douthat had written that “the risks of Trump are so distinctive as to throw the perils of a Clinton presidency into relative eclipse.” He warned of the possibility of “a rapid escalation of risk in every geopolitical theater.”
A year later, Douthat is surprised — and impressed — by Trump’s performance: “[F]or now, the Trump administration’s approach to the Middle East has been moderately successful, and indeed close to what I would have hoped for from a normal Republican president following a realist-internationalist course.”
Douthat faults the press — including himself — for ignoring the victory over ISIS and “not adequately reporting an important success because it does not fit into the narrative of Trumpian disaster in which our journalistic entities are all invested.”
He explains further:
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Thanks Oshkalaboomboom. Well, well, the other shoe is starting to drop -- the talking points will now shift to, hey, maybe collusion with Putin has been a good thing, has really yielded results. Which is good, y'know, because we're the party that was actually colluding with him, just as our party colluded with the USSR.
Sorry, I only read what u posted but there is “NO way” a media person wrote or printed that. No way. It’s got to be fake. The media is so far away against Trump, there is no way this was written by a media person, even if he/she is a fake republican.
They never give Trump credit for anything.
There's yer problem. Our expectations for "normal Republicans" has dropped tremendously, hence President Donald J Trump.
"normal Republicans" keep screwing up every chance they're given to reverse years of Democrat damage to our country. Even now, they keep siding with Democrats, in opposition to their constituents and in open violation of conservative principles, just to damage the President we elected.
SCREW NORMAL REPUBLICAN POLITICIANS!
It wasn’t that hard to defeat ISUS. All we had to do was stop supplying them.
Kill the terrorists who are killing people? Working? Who would have thought?
Normal republicans are swamp critters whose skill is telling their lobbyists they’ll have another thanks.
“SCREW NORMAL REPUBLICAN POLITICIANS! “
Yes, but there are still far too many of them in the Congress. Since the next election is almost a year away, we need to hope that the “sexual harassment purveyors include a number of GOPe types along with the gaggle of RATs that’s sure to be outed.
And..?I’m supposed to care what a dim wit not bright enough to see how great Trump can be if the NeverTrumpers would stop fighting him, think?
Seems the consensus on the comments is that it is the obama policies that finally bore fruit
Defeating Isis is easy if you keep Valerie Jarrett out of the chain of command.
The obama policies were the cause of the problems.
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