Indeed, and if we weren't so deranged with partisanship, we might have a productive national conversation about our conflicted foreign policy aspirations and the way they manifest themselves in incoherent FP.
One begins to suspect that the foaming partisanship serves a useful emotional purpose: It prevents us from having to be that honest with ourselves.
If we weren't all so busy denouncing Trump or Obama--and each other--we might have to ask ourselves whether, for example, the goals of "ending endless war" and "rolling back Russia/Iran/ISIS in the Middle East" are actually compatible. For example. Who wants to think about that?
Exactly no one!
Much easier to think about how much we hate Trump. Or Obama. Or white supremacists. Or Antifa. Or really, anything *but* that, because that one's really uncomfortable.
Much easier to think about how much we hate Trump. Or Obama. Or white supremacists. Or Antifa. Or really, anything *but* that, because that one's really uncomfortable.
