Though he wasn’t at the World Series, John Oliver joined the chorus of voices booing the president on Sunday night. On Last Week Tonight, the host ripped into Donald Trump for his handling of conflict in Syria, specifically his capitulation to Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan. “It is truly troubling the sheer extent to which Trump has just rolled over for Erdogan,” he said.
Get Slate Culture in Your Inbox
The best of movies, TV, books, music, and more, delivered three times a week.
While Oliver acknowledged that there’s no “right” policy in the Middle East and that every choice in the region will have downsides, he was unimpressed with Trump’s hasty withdrawal, not to mention his reasoning for leaving U.S. allies the Kurds to fend for themselves because … they didn’t fight during the invasion of Normandy? “The Kurds fought with the U.S. military in at least two more wars than Donald Trump ever fucking did,” he said. There may not be a right answer, but as Oliver points out, “it’s genuinely hard to get it this wrong.”
Readers like you make our work possible. Help us continue to provide the reporting, commentary and criticism you won’t find anywhere else.
Join Slate Plusfrom Slate Magazine https://ift.tt/340W5IK
via IFTTT
沒有留言:
張貼留言