the state department is clueless; the united states has no idea what's going on, anymore.

sadly, what's unfolding in the united states state department right now is justifying the kinds of arguments that authoritarian states - like russia and turkey - use to discredit democracy.

it's chaos. insanity. disorder.

tillerson was clueless enough, himself, and never should have been put into this position. now, the department is falling apart, you've got the second major turnover in months...and they can't do basic analysis any more...

is trump at least smart enough to realize he should recuse his country from a conflict that it no longer understands?

http://www.newsweek.com/us-actually-agrees-iran-syria-says-turkey-helping-isis-attacking-afrin-852159