Oct. 10, 2019
Peter Bergen wrote an article for CNN on the chaos and cluelessness of Trump and within his administration.
President Donald Trump first came to national attention with his 1987 ghostwritten bestseller, "The Art of the Deal."
As commander in chief he has excelled in The Art of Creating a Crisis.
Exhibit A is the unfolding debacle in Turkey, where an invasion of Syria by the Turks -- green-lighted, in effect, by President Trump -- is exposing America's Kurdish allies to the wrath of the second-largest military in NATO.
This came after a call Sunday between Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in which Trump said he would be pulling American forces out of northeastern Syria. Their presence there was effectively preventing a Turkish invasion.
Trump tweeted "it is time for us to get out of these ridiculous Endless Wars, many of them tribal, and bring our soldiers home."