I love when the Demtards and lamestream opine that President Trump’s withdrawal of troops from Syria is “undoing” all that has been done for lo these many years they’ve been steering the clown car. If what they laid the groundwork for isn’t working by now, wouldn’t it be considered sheer insanity to keep on doing the same thing and expecting good results (to paraphrase using an old axiom).
However, we must always take into account that much of what our federal government does---and probably most military actions and deployments--do not adhere to the ordinary progression of problem definition, propose a fix, implementation that roughly defines progress in industrial and commercial enterprises.
The very heavy weight of bureaucracy, combined with powerful interests of both national and foreign origins, tends to stretch out any timetable that might be hoped for, whether it's building a space shuttle replacement or adding lanes to an interstate highway.
Congress critters like to believe they caused (all by themselves, naturally) something really special to get done, and make sure the voters know about it in time fo the next election.
Astute voters know different, though. They realize that legions of lobbyists, scads of bureaucrats and the ever-present hordes of reporters--foreign and domestic--make it their duty to convince susceptible members of Congress that XYZ is either the best or worst idea of the 21st Century.
Constituents? Who cares unless they contribute to my campaign?
By the time Congress finally acts and appropriations have been approved, the crisis could be over and forgotten
How long did it take to deregulate the airlines? Most free-market columnists and economists recognized the need decades in advance of when it was finally done (under Jimmah Carter's presidency IIRC; probably the only positive achievement in his four years occupying the WH) but those creaky wheels of change turn ever so slowly in Washington, D.C.
President Reagan finished the task when he--without consulting Congress--fired all the striking air traffic controllers.. What a man!
It must drive the aforementioned bureaucrats, lobbyists and hangers-on crazy that President Donald J. Trump would do something (even as small as withdrawing some GIs from a makeshift outpost 7000 miles from home) so rash and unexpected without first getting their permission.
Gads! A potential despot! He defied our traditional way of doing business!
I am hopeful that we'll be seeing many more such executive actions in the next five years.