as being suckers is deeply offensive when you think about it. not only did he lie to the troops and politicize the events, lie about salary increases but to describe american commitments as being suckers. you need to step back and reflect on the crass transactionalism of the president of the united states would imply men and women that served their country in the middle east, perhaps given their lives, were suckers. and this is the tone deafness that he has. to your point, yes, i think there are a lot of americans that are more than willing to tr draw down, but the way it is being done, the betrayal of our allies, the lack of a process, the lack of consultation with the military, the lack of respect for somebody like general james mattis, and that performance today, yes, the pictures are wonderful and maybe that s all that people will take away from it, but i think it was