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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Jul 2018

    Jeet Heer Retweeted NYT At War

    1. Over the last decade (at least) I've condemned Donald Trump in the strongest possible terms in countless words as a shitty human being & political figure. So I feel like I have licence to point out that not everything he does is bad.https://twitter.com/NYTimesAtWar/status/1018653857101025280 …

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    The Trump administration has told its top diplomats to seek direct talks with the Taliban, a significant shift in American policy in Afghanistan, done in the hope of jump-starting negotiations to end the 17-year war https://nyti.ms/2urxwVQ 
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      2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Jul 2018

        2. Trump's foreign policy in general is a shitshow that will do long term damage, a combination of undoing anything Obama did, cuddling up to autocrats, alienating allies, & general bluster. But even here there are a few silver linings.

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      3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Jul 2018

        3. Amid the general (and dangerous) fucked-upness of Trump's foreign policy, there does run an interesting thread where he realizes that after 16 years of Middle Easter war, America needs to retrench from ground combat. That's true.

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      4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Jul 2018

        4. This is not to say (pace Maureen Dowd & @mtracey) that Trump is in any way a "dove" or believer in restraint. He isn't. He just prefers, in tradition of LeMay, to bomb rather than send ground troops. It's part of unilateralist tradition.

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      5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Jul 2018

        5. Anyways, it should be perfectly possible to oppose Trump in general & also support normalizing relations with North Korea, avoiding ground troops in Syria & negotiating an end to Afghan occupation.

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      6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Jul 2018

        6. One caveat to all this is that even in areas where Trump's policies are broadly correct (say, normalizing relations with North Korea), the way he enacts those policies (ineptly, with many lies) is almost certain to lead to failure & possibly disaster.

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      1. eli friedmann‏ @eligit 15 Jul 2018
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        Are we sure he has any responsibility in this move at all? My sense is that has not even thought much about the Taliban at all and this is a Mattis thing.

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      2. UK Rants: God Bless our Queen.‏ @uk_rants 15 Jul 2018
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        Comparing Trump to Hitler makes you appear a fool. Perhaps you need to read some history.

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