We discovered something important about Donald Trump over the past several days: given the right circumstances, the U.S. president is capable of learning. He’s accepted that appointing Stephen Bannon to the National Security Council was a mistake, and dropped him from it. Before becoming president, Trump opposed that policy and gleefully excoriated the Obama White House for its failures in Syria. It can only be assumed that it took Trump so long to grasp the nature of the Assad regime because he hadn’t put much thought into it. Dropping a few missiles on Syria is the easy part, developing a coherent strategy to handle the fallout will be much more difficult.

Source: National Post April 10, 2017 14:48 UTC