President Trump has declared victory over ISIS and said our troops are leaving. We won according to President Trump. What else can our troops do? This is the type of thing that is usually a punchline in a joke but it seems to be real. The Secretary of Defense and the US special presidential envoy for the defeat of ISIS resigned shortly after the announcement.

Are more resignations to follow our victory over ISIS ? Are our allies in this fight and more refuges to be slaughtered when our troops leave? We’ll just have to see what happens. Do we have a choice?
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Is it worse than Watergate ? Those of us as old as the Retired Guy, give or take a decade or so, think of Watergate and Richard Nixon when we think of political scandals that have the potential to severely damage our democracy.

About a month into the Donald Trump presidency, I wondered if the investigations of the Presidential campaign could lead us to something as big or bigger than Watergate.
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I suppose the President of Russian does not get that many Christmas presents. Maybe I’m wrong about that but the present to President Vladimir Putin from President Donald Trump looks like a good one.

I suppose he shares that gift with President Assad of Syria, The Supreme Leader of Iran, and the President of Turkey. It makes you wonder if the generosity of President Donald Trump knows any limits.

Chaos seems to be a major feature of the US government now. A lot happening lately. But it all seem to go back to my earlier point that the chaos seems to be meant to distract us from important stuff. Maybe the Mueller investigation or maybe something else. The problem many of us have is we can’t tell which are the distractions in President Trump’s administration and what is important.
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