a bit less restraint than the Bush II White House is really not something you want to wake up to in January 2017 is it
If any president is going to be worse than W, it’ll be Donald. And yet, he hasn’t managed it yet, much though Trump Derangement Syndrome sufferers would like to protest that he has, largely due to his aura of unclassiness. But I’m gonna use the Iraq war benchmark: If he can start a disaster that big, or accumulate that level of damage in total, then I’ll put him into consideration. And he may yet do so; I wouldn’t put it past him. But we’ll see. If he manages it, it will take some real effort on his part.
AL Gore also pushed for the Iraq war in the general election
He wouldn’t have been willing to pay the ideological price to transform Iraq into a Real Democracy, either.
This half-measures imperialism is really annoying and really deadly. I probably need to hire someone to go around and smack whoever still thinks it was a good idea.