Exactly. Retire these guys and look to building something better even if it takes 50 or 100 years.
It is not that our foes have any real understanding of what they have wrought, or of what they seek. But like thoroughly conditioned robots, they proceed on a sense of mission. Trump absolutely nails it, when he comments on the "stupidity" of our policy makers & negotiators. Let's keep the momentum building; let us yet snatch victory from what has been planned for us by theorists who have all the reason of the academics Gulliver found on the island of Laputa.