In a wide ranging interview with The Hill on Tuesday conducted in the Oval Office, President Trump was asked to give his take on the biggest mistake in American history.Well, he got that much right anyway.
Considering just how open-ended a question that is, it's perhaps surprising that he merely went back less than a couple decades into the Bush presidency, though Trump's base will certainly welcome it as it hearkens back to his "America First" foreign policy vision of the campaign trail.
“The worst single mistake ever made in the history of our country: going into the Middle East, by President Bush,” the president during his interview with Hill.TV.
“Obama may have gotten them (U.S. soldiers) out wrong, but going in is to me the biggest single mistake made in the history of our country,” he said.
Trump explained the reasoning behind this choice, and why it wasn't something like the civil war or another defining and devastating event reaching far into American History.
“Because we spent $7 trillion in the Middle East. Now if you wanna fix a window some place they say, 'oh gee, let’s not do it. Seven trillion, and millions of lives — you know, ‘cause I like to count both sides. Millions of lives,” the president explained....
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Trump Weighs In On The Single Worst Mistake In American History
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4 comments:
It's hard to figure Trump out; does he have a human side? After those speeches he made I keep hoping something will turn up.
Trump "armor" is creating the inability to know what he is really thinking. It's a negotiator's skill, as well as a gambler's.
Political types and military use it, too. It's a type of deception.
Crikey! That makes sense, Tom. Everything is so ruthless and chilling!
He inherited the current situation and has to deal with it...
Seems wrt Syria he is satisfied to kill Isis and also sit on their oil for now in the east....
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