We don't want Syria.

Years of civil war have cost the livelihood and lives of millions.

We don't want Syria. No vast wealth. There's nothing there but sand and death.
~ Our president, 02 Jan 2019

Nothing there but sand and half a million who've died. And five million who've fled the country for their lives, leaving home and everything behind. And six million still inside the country who've been driven from their homes by the war.  More than a thousand children were killed or injured just in the first two months of last year.

There's nothing there we care about there, nothing we need to be concerned about, at least according to this administration.

Having been welcomed into the homes of just a few like these, having met many of their children, I cannot begin to grasp what is behind such thinking.

Truth, and the President

This is not criticism, just an objective observation and question.

Trump seems to fabricate his own version of truth rather frequently, or at least it seems that way to me.   

He visited our troops in Iraq a few days ago and bragged at length about how he had gotten them a 10% pay raise, about how he had fought against others who had said it should be small.  He went on to say they hadn't had a raise in ten years, so he'd fought on their behalf and won and given them a huge raise.  He made similar claims at the Naval Academy in May, "First time in 10 years. We got you a big pay increase. First time in over 10 years. I fought for you. That was the hardest one to get, but you never had a chance of losing."

The claims in each case were false.  The truth -- like every previous year, the military is getting their regular cost of living raise, 2.6% this year.  There was no plan or discussion for a larger raise.  Just one among many inaccurate statements on most major issues.

Update: 02 Jan 19 -- He claimed to have fired Secretary of Defense James Mattis.  False.  Mattis formally resigned in protest against policy decisions by the president.  

Recent analyses of his public comments indicate the rate of significant false statements by our president has increased from two or so per day during his first year to four or five times that number.  Multiple sources are available for such review.

We all perhaps agree with some of the decisions he's made, but if facts and truth aren't part of the process, where does that leave us?  I'm stumped trying to understand why an intelligent person would do that on virtually every significant issue, especially when he had advisors with facts available.     

Objectively, what do we see?

Many are blindly accepting his statements.