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Rather than do anything sensible, Trump decides to talk tough. Though he doesn’t say it, he clearly implies that nuclear weapons are on the table (“I don’t want to start the process”) and that some, unspecified, level of attack by ISIS on US troops could result in nuking them.

The problem obviously is that even a President Trump would be heavily constrained in any decision to use nukes, ISIS knows that, and what is worse nukes would not serve our best interest.

To mildly paraphrase Talleyrand, “It is worse than a crime, it is a blunder.” So Trump manages to make himself look rather silly… again…. but, sadly, his supporters are going to be cheering him on.

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