Trump's lucky year

[Belsnickel]

This article is rather long, so I won't post it here.

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2018-01-20/trumps-lucky-year

Eliot Cohen, a former foreign policy official in a Republican administration, talks in this article about how 2017 ended without a big foreign policy disaster more in spite of Trump than because of him. He contends that this is a testament to the career bureaucrats in the arena that keep everything moving in the face of glacially paced guidelines and incompetence from the administration itself. He argues that this safety isn't likely to last, that there are things coming to a head and the longer we rely on this, the worse prepared we are to handle them when they do.

It's an interesting read if you are willing to commit the time to it.

[GMDino]

(01-30-2018, 02:27 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: This article is rather long, so I won't post it here.

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2018-01-20/trumps-lucky-year

Eliot Cohen, a former foreign policy official in a Republican administration, talks in this article about how 2017 ended without a big foreign policy disaster more in spite of Trump than because of him. He contends that this is a testament to the career bureaucrats in the arena that keep everything moving in the face of glacially paced guidelines and incompetence from the administration itself. He argues that this safety isn't likely to last, that there are things coming to a head and the longer we rely on this, the worse prepared we are to handle them when they do.

It's an interesting read if you are willing to commit the time to it.

Read it last week.

I guess "luck" is one way of looking at it.  "In spite of Trump" seems better to me given his lack of understanding or ability to articulate.