Today, President Trump announced they had found and killed Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the now former leader of ISIS. You have to think that his announcement that we were leaving Syria was connected to this operation. What many thought was a horrible, ill-conceived, and poorly thought out decision suddenly isn’t looking all that bad. When I heard about Baghdadi was killed, I could only think about President Bush’s lead up to the Iraq invasion. Unlike Trump’s surprise announcement, President Bush followed all the normal rules of diplomacy. He told everyone there were weapons of mass destruction. He shared the evidence…

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