found online by Raymond
From Green Eagle:
So, I remember a story from the later years of the Vietnam war, when the United States was getting its rear end kicked by the Vietnamese: A fair number of people, with a mixture of sarcasm and seriousness, said that we should just declare victory and come home, counting on the American people, or at least the ones who voted Republican, to gladly accept a fairy tale for reality.
I’m hearing lately what used to be called a “trial balloon” (don’t hear that phrase much anymore, in a country whose leader’s every remark is some kind of mentally deranged boast likely to disappear within hours) that this is exactly what Trump is planning to do in Syria…