It troubles me when President Trump says that he can solve any international problem 'easily'. I have never heard any President (going back to Johnson) claim to have an easy solution for any international crisis. Sometimes the best solution is to let things go as they are likely to, as with the elder Bush with the anti-Communist revolutions in central and Balkan Europe in 1989. But that required some honest assessment of each national situation.
"Easy" is for amateurs, drudges, and suckers.
"Easy" is for amateurs, drudges, and suckers.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.