Posted on 07/16/2016 9:39:28 PM PDT by P.O.E.
Well, at least that's how I see it now. There's never any end to what that whole family of self-aggrandizing influence peddlers are willing to do for the Saudis.
Niteowl77 and I got to spend time during our only child's four ME deployments worried whether some mortar round... or RPG warhead… or stray bullet… or IED… would put an end to our lad even though he was in a support unit.
We went from being defenders of W to ashamed of him in 8 years; Obama's being even worse has provided no comfort.
Mr. niteowl77
As for the Bush family, it tickles me that the anointment of Jeb didn't work. LOL. More in the wings for sure. Family dynasties take generations to cycle into irrelevancy.
DITTO !!!!!!!!!!
-GyG!
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How about to to do their part to defend themselves and the rest of Europe from the threat of Putin's Hitlerian ambitions?
You didn't read the article, did you?
SPIEGEL: Can you explain Trump's fascination for strong leaders like Vladimir Putin or Saddam Hussein, whom he recently praised as an effective hunter of terrorists?
Flynn: He respects people who are selfish about their country. Putin is a guy who is very selfish about Russia and about the Russian federation, and he understands the history of his country. You can't say, "I don't like you." You've got to respect him. He's a world leader.
SPIEGEL: Is Putin a reliable partner for America?
Flynn: Putin will be a reliable partner for certain things for the United States, yes. Absolutely. We need to have a relationship from the top to the bottom, same with China.
If General Flynn is any judge then it seems as if a Trump administration will be closer to Putin than to Merkel or the rest of NATO.
>>>>”History is not going to be kind to the last 16 years.”
>>George W has problem as history unfolds....
Dubya set us back 25 years in properly addressing the root problem with his “Islam is a peaceful friendly religion” nonsense.
Between that and his protection of the Saudis in the immediate wake of 9/11, history will not be kind to him.
Don’t even get me started on Obama.
SPIEGEL: After the harsh words about Muslims, many view Mr. Trump as being racist and an enemy of freedom of religion.
It is long past time to point out that Islam is a belief system, not a “race”, when the race card is played. You aren’t born with it.
It is also long past time to point out that forced subjugation of the Infidel is a core value of the “religion”, which really makes it more of a political system. In general, from a Western view, only governments control and regulate use of force to compel behavior.
More than fed up. Flynn would make a good Sec of Defense. Lt Col. Allen West Sec of State. Neither have a love of murderous muzzies.
Flynn’s got to be my favorite democrat
Trump is in no way "close" to Putin. That doesn't mean we should not respect Putin and try to work with him when possible. Trump is a capitalist and a nationalist but he believes in representative government and has no territorial ambitions beyond the US. The same cannot be said for the militaristic national socialist Putin who seems committed to planting a Russian flag on every piece of soil where an ethnic Russian lives, from Estonia to the Crimea and probably on the banks of the East River too.
Like Mr. Trump, Ms. Merkel is also a believer in representative democracy but she is a globalist socialist who has made her country an economic dependency of Russia and who will need significant encouragement in order to get her meet her treaty obligations. Fortunately Mr. Trump's business acumen makes him good at that sort of thing.
Between that and his protection of the Saudis in the immediate wake of 9/11, history will not be kind to him.
And then there's the invasion of Iraq. The greatest foreign policy blunder in U.S. history.
And how did you determine that "their part" is twice the level that they are currently spending? Again what threat are they supposed to be rearming against? Especially in light of what Flynn said about Putin and the fact that Trump seems to view Putin in a more favorable light than Merkel?
Trump is in no way "close" to Putin. That doesn't mean we should not respect Putin and try to work with him when possible. Trump is a capitalist and a nationalist but he believes in representative government and has no territorial ambitions beyond the US. The same cannot be said for the militaristic national socialist Putin who seems committed to planting a Russian flag on every piece of soil where an ethnic Russian lives, from Estonia to the Crimea and probably on the banks of the East River too.
Flynn seems to be painting Putin in a far more favorable light than you are. And Trump has had far more positive things to say about Putin than any European leader. If a Trump Administration views Russia and China as the partners they want then one has to question the need for NATO entirely.
Like Mr. Trump, Ms. Merkel is also a believer in representative democracy but she is a globalist socialist who has made her country an economic dependency of Russia and who will need significant encouragement in order to get her meet her treaty obligations.
The treaty obligations you say that Germany isn't meeting seem to be related to military spending. Yet I don't think Putin would look favorably on German rearmament given past history, and Flynn sees Russia as a more important partner so why would they promote something like that?
I agree. Look who we had in 2008.
I can’t agree with that. While a blunder as carried out, not addressing the root issues of Islam in the immediate wake of 9/11, and in fact helping sweep them under the rug, is bigger.
This is a very substantive interview!
You weren't wrong to vote against Al Gore or John Kerry. The "wrong" party was the Republican party. It has been wrong ever since Reagan.
He impressed me, and that is not easy to do. Reminded me more of Zell Miller.
RT is a Russian TV channel that is funded by the Russian government and frequently broadcasts Russian propaganda. Michael Flynn, the former director of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, appears on this channel and is undoubtedly paid to do so. At a dinner party in Moscow for the 10th anniversary of RT, Flynn was seated next to the president of RT and Vladimir Putin.
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