Joy Reid on the Yemen Strike where everything went wrong.

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19. So, who cared so little about the troops?

Remember the troops and all the betrayals of the troops by the Obama administration? Oh, it was horrible, not sending the troops into Syria or Israel or Mexico or someplace else for ill-defined objectives, lethal risks, and dubious results. It was almost as if President Obama didn't want to waste the lives of the troops.

Well, now there's a new sheriff in town, and the troops are going to be out there blowing women, kids and houses to Kingdom Come, getting ambushed, and dying for the greater glory of President Trump. Who decided the Yemen raid was a good idea? Who approached whom: Did the Pentagon figure the new administration would be inexperienced enough not to know a bad plan when they saw it? Or did the Trump administration go fishing for a gung-ho half-baked plan in pursuit of a public relations victory?

Either way it went, someone involved didn't care about the risks, only the potential reward. President Trump couldn't even be bothered to show up in the Situation Room while William Owens was dying at his command. And why did the military originally say that no civilians had been killed in the raid? Who authorized the announcement of that lie? If this is what the White House says is a very successful operation, I'd hate to see what they would consider a failure.