[Goose]

It is not at all unusual for people in authority to hold on to ideas they have embraced long after virtually everybody else has decided they are dead ends. It happens all the time with projects that get cancelled and then resurrected by the CEO. Winston Churchill spent the first 4 years of WWII trying to perfect the "air mine" to destroy German aircraft. Never brought down any Germans, but did some of the British aircraft trying to deploy them.

Given all the things our current POTUS has done that were (IMHO) stupid beyond words, this one is minor. If everything else were going well, we could just accept it as a quirk and move on. However, since we do have a few other problems, his continual return to this one is more annoying than it might be otherwise.

[Goose]

It is not at all unusual for people in authority to hold on to ideas they have embraced long after virtually everybody else has decided they are dead ends. It happens all the time with projects that get cancelled and then resurrected by the CEO. Winston Churchill spent the first 4 years of WWII trying to perfect the "air mine" to destroy German aircraft. Never brought down any Germans, but did some of the British aircraft trying to deploy them.

Given all the things our current POTUS has done that were (IMHO) stupid beyond words, this one is minor. If everything else were going well, we could just accept it as a quirk and move on. However, since we do have a few other problems, his continual return to this one is more annoying than it might be otherwise.