A few weeks ago, I attended the Reagan National Defense Forum in Simi Valley, California, where panel after panel of defense experts dutifully discussed Important Issues such as gray zone warfare, the defense industrial base and the future of U.S. policy toward Syria. It all seemed disconnected from reality, as if the defense cognoscenti were living in an alternative universe where they can generate policy options in the expectation that a wise and well-informed president will choose the best of the lot. That is not the situation we are in. We are at the mercy of an ignorant and impetuous president who, as Jeffrey Toobin quipped, "is unfit to run a charity in New York State but fit to control nuclear weapons that could destroy the world several times over.
Max Boot: Trump’s surprise Syria pullout is a giant gift to our enemies
