There's some big mistakes being made here with this. I'm all for scaling things back in terms of the ME and EU. But this plan is basically telling the CCP and Taliban/AQ that they can get away with their bullshit and not just that, but that th U.S. will do just about anything to keep out of engaging them with anything more than sharply worded letters or pronouncements.

What also bothers me is that Trump is standing behind his negotiating skills so much, that he's overlooking the fact that some of the nations and groups he wants to n gotiate with want nothing more than to see our complete and total destruction.

China wouldn't even be a competitor on the world stage by any metric if we didn't basically hand our influence over to them by leaving Afghanistan in the way we did and by staying out of Africa for anything more than a relative handful of drone strikes against Islamist militants. Negotiating and working with al' Julani in Syria is going to give us problems, too.

I'm not a neo-Con warhawk by any stretch of the imagination, but some of their rationales do make sense. Pulling back from the world stage to only effectively be a hemispherical power is going through o come back to haunt us.