If the president-elect learns one thing while he is in office, hopefully it will be to preface his many comments with "I would like to see things happen this way." From the campaign trail to the office, his office tweets and innuendo make it seem like he thinks he has the power and the ability to run the country exclusively from the oval office. Far from it. Some of his ideas have great credence and congress would do well to pay attention. But his know-it-all attitudes, his insincere apologies and his shoot from the hip attention to the country's problems leaves most of us wondering what's next.
Our country has always had a credibility problem and Trump has the potential to even make it worse with his quick tongue. I give you our invasion of Iraq, to free the Iraqi people as an example of how we can make a mess of things we can't fix. Or maybe take a look at Libya today. Another failure. Yet on the other hand with our double standard, when Russia went into Crimea we wanted the whole world to sanction them. Neither thing should have happened in a perfect world but it is far from perfect and that is something we should wake up to. We discredit China for human right violations and then we buddy up to Saudi Arabia where women have less rights than almost anywhere on earth. If we can't be consistent with our high standards and the chastising of others for not following them, we should keep our mouths shut. Most of the world sees us as a paper tiger anyway so why waste the effort.
Mike Holst
Crosslake
