This rewriting of history sickens me, notice the author omitted any of the really inflammatory Trump statements to soft peddle the crap sandwich.
I think Trump is being gentle in his treatment of our past ME policy.
One day we will be eating our shitsammy and people like you will have no idea why.
Trump nor this author have softpeddled nothing. Our present financial disasters, and out of control government on its needs to satisfy the voracious appetitites of crony capitalism are due to the decision to invade Iraq.
The federal budget was more or less balanced in the last years of Cliton - and wit Iraq it exploded out of control. We build DHS and we build a DC infrastructure of crony capitalist beltway bandits to support THE GREAT RIPOFF of the American taxpayer. Obama may have continued the tradition and converted it to social spending, but GWB and his neocons started it.
This was a strategic disaster of the same order of the Athenian expedition to Syracuse which lead to the fall of Athens under the boot of Sparta.