Effective cynicism is better than ineffective idealism.

Also; President Trump is not a heartless man.  Everyone who thinks that is wrong.

When he considers changing his mind, he's attacked for that, also.  He has the decency and the faith in other people's intelligence to think aloud about whether or not someone else's ideas are right; when he does that, the people who don't want to relinquish their caricature of him scoff, rather than to continue the conversation that he's starting.


These people can shut up if they can't think of a way to be helpful:


https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/04/observer-view-cessation-hostilities-yemen-donald-trump-mohammed-bin-salman



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The article doesn't say that the war in Yemen is a conflict that the Trump administration inherited.  The most it says about that is this:

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"The US proposal, backed by Britain, for a “cessation of hostilities” in Yemen, to be followed by UN-led peace talks, is welcome. But it raises a number of questions. Why has it taken so long for the Trump administration to act, given that the appalling, avoidable toll on Yemeni lives exacted by the Saudi-led, western-backed bombing campaign has been well documented over the past three years?"

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"Well documented" by whom?  I have looked at the first page of the New York Times' website almost every day for 4 years; it always has jokes promoting sexual crime, far more of those than articles about Yemen.  

The homeless shelter where I have lived since June 2017, after being illegally evicted from my last apartment in retaliation for objecting to being criminally victimized by voyeurism, has the news on television in the morning and in the evening.  I don't remember even one broadcast about Yemen.