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October 29, 2019

The Morning Report - 10/29/19

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Good morning kids. Tuesday and the reaction and fallout continues over the highly successful raid that took out ISIS leader al-Baghdadi. On a foreign policy level, there is no doubt that this raid cements, at least in the minds of anyone engaged in critical thinking and not having their brain marinated in both Trump derangement as well as the completely wrong globalist weltanschauung this President's correct instincts on foreign policy. By examining events that led up to the action, it is clear that the President's decision to withdraw troops from Syria ahead of the Turkish incursion into Kurdish-held territory was a precursor. It had the effect of both giving the Russians and the Turks reason to not interfere without really even knowing the plan as well as the side benefit of leaving egg on the face of every Leftist pundit, politician and military "expert" who shrieked about "abandoning our allies, Kurds, ZOMFG!"

What these imbeciles fail to realize is that Trump doesn't share their idiotic beliefs on geo-politics that for decades have proven completely wrong and with tragic results.

...Trump might not be an expert in international relations, but he gets geopolitics better than a lot of career grifters blathering the same talking points in DC blob circles. That's because he is mercantilist in approach. To him, nothing matters more than cost-benefit. And his foreign policy is predicated not on arbitrary moral values or supposed human rights promotion, but on strict narrow realism on what is better for the structural interests of the United States.

I have often stated in these pages that Trump might be rhetorically challenged, speaking in a way other presidents never spoke, but he has a Teddy Rooseveltian approach to politics. Nothing else matters to him than maximizing American great power and avoiding needless confrontations while focusing on broader strategic goals...

Putting aside Mr. Maitra's line about being "rhetorically challenged" as that argument has been ground into dust already, everything else here, and in the rest of his piece is dead right. While the neutralizing of Baghdadi and for all intents and purposes ISIS as a whole is an important victory, the battle with Islamism as a whole continues, as it has done with only a brief respite in the 20th century for 1,400 years. In many ways we are still fundamentally unserious about it. If, on the tenth anniversary of the Fort Hood massacre, as well as Bro-Fo Omar and Rancida Taliban sitting in Congress doesn't make you take notice, you're not paying attention.

Anyway, links from around the world, across the nation and up your street. Have a better one and remain blessed.

NOTE: The opinions expressed in some links may or may not reflect my own. I include them because of their relevance to the discussion of a particular issue.

ALSO: The Morning Report is cross-posted at CutJibNewsletter.com if you want to continue the conversation all day.

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