Today's so-called snowflakes should remember the founder of modern nursing Florence Nightengale who said "I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse.”
The US withdrew from the transpacific partnership trade agreement and now China has applied to join that body subsequently renamed CPTPP our membership would have solidified relations with Asian countries ex China and helped counter China's aggressive behavior in the region the one and maybe only decision of the Trump administration that should've been overturned by Biden is our membership in the TPP.
New York Senator Robert Ferdinand Wagner Jr, a true politician, advised us that “When in danger, ponder. When in trouble, delegate. When in doubt, mumble.”
With the debacle of the exit from Afghanistan after 20 misspent years, Robert Nicholson of the Philos Project notes that “…a simple truth has been apparent for years: We Westerners failed not for a lack of effort, but because military and economic power alone cannot change the Islamic world in a lasting way.” That being said, leaving a military contingent at Bagram Air Base to support the fragile Afghan government and keep a close eye on our enemies would have been prudent.
