“Nation Shocked As Well Known Arsonist Commits Arson After Months Of Loudly And Frequently Proclaiming His Love Of Arson!”

“I just did not see this coming.” - Area Nincompoop.

And in just a little over a month we will have as President, a 78 year old man, well into his dotage who has trouble stringing together coherent sentences and staying awake, hates Muslims, loves Russia, and, has nominated to head the defense department, a drunken rapist.
Ok then.
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So the Assad regime in Syria has fallen, leaving a power vacuum in the Middle East, with coalition of rebel forces who no longer have a common enemy to unite them, Russia and Iran seeking to regain their influence in the region, and oh yes, stockpiles of chemical weapons.
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The "moral high ground" is meaningless if all you are doing while someone is coming at you with a broken bottle in a dark alley is flipping through the Marquess of Queensberry rules.