That’s an aggressive schedule. We’ve already in just the last few years entered the War on Terror again on the side of Al Qaeda, salted the earth so nothing will ever grow, done the Hokey Pokey with hulking fascist movements all along the NATO/Russian border, become our own worst enemy, left billions of dollars worth of the most advanced American military gear waiting in Iraq for Daesh to pick up from the ever-retreating Iraqi Army, twiddled our thumbs whilst the Russians make an appalling mincemeat of our pet Al Qaeda terrorists and worse, the trucks they use to export Syrian oil, sown the wind liberally with Hellfire missiles and mass extra-judicial killings, spent three trillion dollars who knows how much of which were last seen as palette-loads of stacked and wrapped hundred dollar bills flying out of Baghdad and Kabul, and have so far managed not to bring up anything about our indispensable regional allies Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey being ISIS’s secret identities.

For a president whose top priority remains locking in place a raft of secret treaties meant to replace our republican form of government with rule by the “expected future profits,” of multinational corporations, and one that could never be expected to take his own supposed side in an argument before, let alone end illegal mass surveillance, close Gitmo, hold BP accountable, or even try for single-payer health care, defeating Sunni Iraq née Saddam’s old Iraqi Republican Guard again at this stage, it must be said, over-stretches the imagination.

Then again, maybe this is “sound and fury, signifying nothing.”