Posted on 04/07/2017 12:02:50 PM PDT by thorvaldr
Unless you have been in a cave, you know where this is heading. Trump won the nomination and the presidency on one core issue. He would be the President of the United Sates, not the President of the world. That was his line. He repeated it often. It allegedly captured his one core belief. What is good for America is what is good for Americans and the government should always be working to further the interest of Americans, over the interests of foreigners.
The fact that something so obvious and sane has to be explained speaks to the the degeneracy of our age. But, we live in a time when we have to debate physical reality with people who insist things like biology and math are a plot by a mystery cult of white men to keep down women and non-whites. Still, Trump running on a platform of rationality, and winning on the platform, gave a lot of people, including me, a spark of hope. Maybe what comes next does not have to be what always comes next.
Yesterday, the alt-right and even many seasoned geezers like me took a body blow when Trump abandoned everything he said over the last two years and embraced the idiocy of yet another war in the Middle East. Not only is he embracing the lunacy of the traitorous neocons, he is risking war with Russia. His reason for condemning himself to ruin is that his daughter got the sads over seeing pictures of dead kids in Syria. She takes to twitter over this latest agit-prop and in a day daddy is launching missiles at Assad.
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That was no war. It was a message.
Someone ping me when Trump enters into 10 year long compassionate war strategy, costing multiple trillions, looting what's left of the American treasure. Like Boosh did.
These authors would be better served if they'd stop the biased lies and BS.
OK so you think a show of strength with NK directly would be better than having them get the message obliquely so their insane need to save face doesnt propel a nuclear incident.
Not much for subtle are you?
Finally we are arriving at the truth of this matter. The Tomahawk attack, while hitting Syria, was aimed directly at North Korea. Look at the timing. Now the chicoms can go to the norks and say chill out, or this will happen to you, no warning, and nothing we can do to stop it.
“Donald Herbert Walker Trump”
How clever! Switching presidents’ middle names to make us think that one is the same as the other.
Didn’t work.
Or we could look at it this way...
.. so that Trump/Russia thing is off the table now.
.. Gorsich will be the next SCOTUS.
.. Immigration down to a trickle.
.. the NORKS on notice.
.. hosting Xi at the Southern White House (good optics)
The Art of the Deal, perhaps?
I dunno what to think about the missile strike, but not a bad week for The Donald - no matter how you look at it.
Unknown blogosphere crap
Let the pearl clutches go their corners and tremble
While I don’t disagree with your characterization of Assad, I fail to see how getting in the middle of a fight between two baby killers does anyone, particularly America, any good at all. Is outrage and indignation to be the driving force behind our foreign policy from this day forth? whose outrage carries the day, Ivanka’s, Trump’s, yours or mine? And is their/our outrage a valid reason to commit the lives of American soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines to make them/us feel better?
Has everyone forgotten that ISIS also has chemical weapons, including chlorine, mustard and sarin, and has used them numerous times - 52 according to one source? Has everyone forgotten the highway in Iraq that was lined with the heads of hundreds of men, women and children impaled on stakes - all killed by ISIS? What about the Jordanian pilot that was burned alive in a cage and the many men, women and children since then who were dressed in orange suits, doused in gasoline, placed in a cage and burned alive? Where is the international outrage about ISIS’ atrocities?
Have you had a chance to hear Nikki Haley’s speech about the bombing? Very firm statement, she is developing into an asset.
https://youtu.be/abZcc4ZUSyg?t=381
Donaldus Maximus Trumpus. Spanking Assad and putting others on notice.
It was either Assad or the Syrian insurgents based on the location of attack. Spy satellite has recorded data showing the fixed wing aircraft flew out of the airport controlled by Assad. Since CIA & other intel agencies are headed by Trump appointees, I would believe them more than Media gossip who have absolutely zero spy satellite access.
Assad is not new at this. He has done it before to score a quick knockout of his enemies. It is his most powerful weapon...chemical weapons of mass destruction.
Also, comparing this to invasion of Iraq by the Bushes shows lack of intelligent thinking. This one is a surgical response, a measured response, and an effective response. No boots on the ground to invade Assad regime.
Nope. Legal immigration from the third world continues to pour into our homeland. Still issuing "family reunification" visas to tens of thousand of Muslims from Pakistan, Iraq, Iran, etc. Still issuing "Dreamer" amnesty tickets to border violators.
These are the same intel agencies that are 100% certain the Russians colluded with Trump to help him win the election.
Was Trump President then? Let’s see what will happen if it happens on his watch. He has cautioned them.
Your point is unclear. Horrible things have been happening and our past leaders have put their heads in the sand or their hands in their pockets or made deposits to off shore accounts. Atrocities continued as bad guys became emboldened.
There’s a new guy in town who says the buck stops here. You think he should let a few more atrocities go by before he makes a show of strength? Why exactly? Does doing the same thing over & over get different results?
How about we try the traditional methods of standing up to bullies rather than being the 800lb gorilla cowering behind the curtain. How about we live up to what it means to be America and speak out against atrocity and back up that speech to show we are serious.
There is a long long way from a show of strength to a war and that show of strength is a time tested way to avoid a war.
Correct, DACA is still operating as if it were law and not something dreamed up by Obama. 11,000 new illegal aliens processed since Trump took office, 49,000 renewals for an illegal program that should have been shut down.
Oh there is plenty of outrage alright...about ISIS atrocities. Problem is the Western democracies spend less than 10% of what USA spends on military, based on GDP comparison. Their military powers are incapable of effective response and retaliation. They are like eunuchs and their outrage is hollow.
And if your posit is correct about ISIS possessing chemical WMD’s, is there a better way to send them a message than showing what 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles can do? Do you think Kim—UN also got the message and learned how Trump thinks?
Your point about getting in middle of 2 baby killers is not rational, because firing cruise missiles sans boots on the ground hardly comprises as starting an invasion or new war. It was a measured, proportional, quick & effective response to use of chemical WMD’s. It is similar to what Reagan did to Qaddafi and it was effective. I have feeling this one will be as well.
Not true. That is what ONLY the democrat politicians keep repeating. I can not recall CIA or NSA chiefs giving any such testimony in a congressional hearing. Actually Clapper said just the opposite, that there was no evidence of collusion.
ILLEGAL immigration is in a bear market. Legal immigration should be based on skill or money, like New Zealand and Australia have done, with great success and benefit of importing skilled immigrants mainly from Asia. Sooner we wake up and reduce immigration based on family connection, the better.
“Could you, if you lived in say Salt Lake City get wiped out by a suitcase carrying sarin gas or anything else like that, you bet your sweet ass you could “
Exactly.
blah, blah, arm-chair quarterback, blah, blah, blah....
No, you clearly side with the Salafists who rape little girls and slaughter Christians. But you really didn’t even need the fake staged attack did you now?
More like DJT is channeling W
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