There has been some praise for this op-ed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell affixed his name to in the Washington Post.
The op-ed's principal failing is that nowhere in it will you see the word "Trump."
McConnell criticizes the withdrawal as if it was self-actualized, or self-directed by "the administration" he cites as the decision-maker.
The reason for this intellectual and political dishonesty is that McConnell is in the re-election fight of his life and dares not be associated with a sentence like 'Trump's grave mistake' or 'Trump abandons allies, enables genocide,' which an opponent would copy accurately and verbatim into TV spots and door-hangers.
But there's more: McConnell twice takes shots by name at former President Barack Obama as if he is responsible for the decisions Trump has made and implemented on his own.
Which further distorts the use of phrase "the administration" in the op-ed as the blame-worthy party, because Trump did this on his own after chit-chatting with Recep Erdogan, the Turkish President and Trump strongman role model.
A better headline on the op-ed would have been:
Mitch McConnell: Withdrawing from Syria is a grave mistakeHold your applause.
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The op-ed's principal failing is that nowhere in it will you see the word "Trump."
McConnell criticizes the withdrawal as if it was self-actualized, or self-directed by "the administration" he cites as the decision-maker.
The reason for this intellectual and political dishonesty is that McConnell is in the re-election fight of his life and dares not be associated with a sentence like 'Trump's grave mistake' or 'Trump abandons allies, enables genocide,' which an opponent would copy accurately and verbatim into TV spots and door-hangers.
But there's more: McConnell twice takes shots by name at former President Barack Obama as if he is responsible for the decisions Trump has made and implemented on his own.
Which further distorts the use of phrase "the administration" in the op-ed as the blame-worthy party, because Trump did this on his own after chit-chatting with Recep Erdogan, the Turkish President and Trump strongman role model.
A better headline on the op-ed would have been:
Mitch McConnell: I'm distorting Trump's grave mistake