AMUSING, INTERESTING, OUTRAGEOUS, or PROFOUND

People should be appointed based on competency, not dogmatic loyalty to the person appointing them

People should be appointed based on what the people elected you to do, anything else is a betrayal of the constituents. If someone voted for you because they believed you would reschedule cannabis, and you don't get it done, that is a betrayal of your voters.

Sidestepping the review process would open it up to challenge and set a precedent that would allow it and other drugs to similarly be casually reassigned based on the whims of whoever is in power in the future

And then they will face electoral consequences.

The review process just takes a long time I guess, but it’s fair to assume it hasn’t been a priority.

The review process takes as long as the head of the DEA wants it to.

Hamas instigated the most recent conflict

Israel instigated the conflict by ethnically cleansing a million Palestinians and driving them into Gaza, and then building a wall around it and responding to peaceful protests such as the march of return by shooting doctors, women, and children.

They were only able to do this and are only able to continue to do this because of American weapons and diplomatic support.

I would compare it to European nations appeasing Hitler by allowing him to conquer Austria and Czechoslovakia without consequences

The western allies who gave up Austria and Czechoslovakia were expecting consequences; they were expecting Hitler (and Poland, who also got territory from Czechoslovakia) to invade their common enemy, the USSR.

In any case, there's a good chance we'll get to see the consequences under the next administration. Spoiler: