Trump's Foreign Policy Creds

OK, it's easy to pick on Donald Trump's foreign policy. But just because he recently referred to the attack on the World Trade Center as happening on "7/11" - which is a convenience store - instead of 9/11, and just because he claimed that "I know Russia well" because he held a "major event in Russia two or three years ago - (the) Miss Universe contest, which was a big, big, incredible event" - doesn't make him unqualified.

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And, by the way, just because Trump's big foreign policy speech was salted with falsehoods - like "ISIS is making millions and millions of dollars a week selling Libyan oil" - it doesn't make him unqualified.

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Indeed, criticizing Trump for inconsistency when it comes to foreign policy is a bit rich when you consider that both Democrats and Republicans have treated Pakistan as an ally, knowing full well that its secret service has trucked with terrorists and coddled the Taliban - the people killing U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan; they've both treated Saudi Arabia as an ally because we needed its oil, knowing full well that its export of Salafist Islam has fueled jihadis; they both supported decapitating Libya and then not staying around to support a new security order, thus opening a gaping hole on the African coast for migrants to flow into Europe; they've both supported NATO expansion into Russia's face and then wondered aloud why the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, is so truculent.

  Thomas Friedman @ Houston Chronicle

And, remember, poll after poll shows Hillary Clinton can't beat Trump.

President Barack Obama has been patting himself on the back a lot lately for not intervening in Syria. I truly sympathized with how hard that call was - until I heard the president and his aides boasting about how smart their decision was and how stupid all their critics are.

Wait. Not intervened in Syria? Really?

Oh. By the way...

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.