The problem is the people in charge now have not earned that kind of faith. If they’re truly trying to relight these things, my heart goes out in advance to the neighborhood in the Southwest that burns down before they rethink it.
If you set partisan politics aside for 90 seconds, you might realize that regardless of the administration publicly in charge, the government is always doing stuff behind closed doors that your brain could not even begin to comprehend how they pull it off.
Stories like this hilariously implausible "grizzled old man casually leaks secret program to Aviation Week" is like throwing a cat a ball of yarn.
Sometimes bad ideas are just stupidity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madman_theory
Irrational and volatile as a play-act is one thing, actually being irrational and volatile is a whole other ball game...
He has been propping up coal.
https://theonion.com/new-apple-ceo-tim-cook-im-thinking-prin...
You realise that government agencies including the pentagon have been gutted, and filled with conmen and frauds?
It would be funny for the rest of the world if we didn’t also have to pay for the people America elected.
Too bad all's they can do is sit back and condemn things, by your own admission.
Refugee crisis -> Middle East chaos -> Let's look back 20 years and see who decided to go into Iraq with a giant force of incompetence (or as that fuckwit said "Unknown unknowns") and created insurgent forces that grew into ISIS, etc? -> Can we ask them for compensation?
When grandparent said "The rest of the world has to pay", I don't think they'd disagree with the 2 above examples...
I think that is very easy.
"If Muslims get their nuclear weapon (chemical weapon, Jerusalem, that particular abandoned piece of desert, any other random crap, choose whatever you like) they WILL DESTROY THE WORLD. How we can see, the world is still existing. So compensation? That would be pretty nice of them, we are ready to start getting compensation at any moment".
About the people who gutted every major agency and meddled constantly making forces less effective in the name of the most partisan of partisan politics? Most people won't and that is a completely self-created problem.