Rethinking Trump

ON MY CAR'S BUMPER is a sticker which reads "Unfit To Serve: Impeach Trump". It sits next to my favorite, one imploring all to "stand up for science". That, and I think I have another one stuck on proudly proclaiming my membership in the democratic party. Nothing incongruous. But now that Mr. Trump has announced his intention of withdrawing American forces from Syria, I am considering not only removing the Trump bumper sticker, but also replacing it with one saying something like: "making America isolationist again, like Washington advised". (avoid foreign entanglements, said the first president in his farewell address) The "make America great again" concept has serious flaws, among them that America is already great, and always has been. Also, an expression of a need to make it great again would seem to imply that she is not currently great, a great sin of patriotic lack. But in removing troops from Syria, trump is doing right by me, if not his own supporters and Republican members of Congress. I'm no isolationist, but much like the president and millions of my fellow Americans, I often wonder why in hell we have over eight hundred military bases on foreign soil and in foreign waters. The answer of course is that the United States of Aggression wishes to impose her sacred will upon the world, in the name of American corporate expansion and exploitation. Trump sees through all that, as do most of us, and would probably be happy to accede to my suggestion that the wall be scuttled in favor of merely amassing a massive military presence all along the Rio Grande, in defiance of the Posse Comitatus law of 1877, which ended reconstruction and outlawed the positioning of the military in southern states for the purpose of acting as law enforcement. Repeal the law, close the foreign bases, reposition the troops, screw the wall. it would require substantial monitoring anyway, as did the Great Wall of China. Walls keep nobody out; they merely render relocating an inconvenience.