{"id":76647,"date":"2017-12-19T09:01:46","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T14:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=76647"},"modified":"2017-12-19T09:05:08","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T14:05:08","slug":"ross-douthat-a-war-trump-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=76647","title":{"rendered":"Ross Douthat; A War Trump Won"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the pages of the New York Times<\/a>, Ross Douthat writes about the media ignoring the fact that the Trump Administration actually put ISIS out of business in Syria and Iraq without getting in a shooting war with the Russians and that they did it in record time.<\/p>\n

But this is also a press failure, a case where the media is 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.<\/p>\n

I include myself in this indictment. Foreign policy is the place where the risks of electing Trump seemed to me particularly unacceptable, and I\u2019ve tended to focus on narratives that fit that fear, from the risk of regional war in Middle East to the perils in our North Korean brinksmanship.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, the media is unhappy that Trump unleashed the military forces from the politicians’ collar of ineffective rules of engagement for the troops and they helped regional forces crush ISIS and the forces of evil are relegated to a few caves in Syria.<\/p>\n

But 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. So very provisionally, credit belongs where it\u2019s due \u2014 to our soldiers and diplomats, yes, but to our president as well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Curses. Foiled again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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