David Brooks:

Yes.

Fareed Zakaria mentioned there's never been a moment that he could think of where a bad decision was made, and the blunder came immediately, the results and the catastrophe came right away.

And it was a total win for Erdogan and the Turks, a total win for Syria, and a total win for Russia, because the Turks get to do their ethnic cleansing. The Syrians get to go into the region. The Russians have been trying to get into the region. Now they get to walk into the region. The Russians have — or the Iranians have a proxy.

So it was a — the score was 56 Erdogan, zero for Trump, and zero for the United States.

And I think this is — what's shocking is just the moral — not only the incompetence. I mean, the letter Trump wrote to Erdogan could have been written by a kindergartner. It was — it didn't look like an official government letter.

And then the — just the moral callousness of having no remorse about the deaths and the cleansing. I think it's — I think this, combined with impeachment, is what shakes people. This is a more shocking event.

And it goes against a generation of Republican and American foreign policy to be a stabilizing force in that region. And it was also a sign — and I think this is where — the way — the only way I can see that you really get to some erasure — some erosion from the Republican side — is a lot of Republicans think, well, we had Kelly there for a little.

Mattis was there for a little while. We had some sane people controlling him. The controls are gone. And this guy's spinning wildly out of control.

And I think that could be a conclusion that people would reach.