Posted on 04/10/2017 8:04:09 PM PDT by confederatecarpetbag
President Trump is emerging from his first overseas crisis looking calm and competent, with his foreign-policy and national-security teams hitting on all cylinders. Surprise!
His airstrike against Bashar al-Assad’s forces in Syria won the support of 78 US senators, including 30 Democrats — albeit with some qualifications.
The fact that Trump executed what came off as a rapid turnaround on his Syria policy in the wake of a war crime indicates he’s not locked into preconceived notions or policies: He’s adjusting to reality as it develops.
Yes, Trump lacks the kind of grand foreign-policy doctrine pushed by the last two presidents — but that’s not such a bad thing. In a world full of unknown and unpredictable factors, he’s prepared to act on the basis of actual realities, unbeholden to an agenda of aggressive nation-building or appeasement.
Which is why the White House is taking pains to stress that the Syria strike is not a preliminary to an anti-Assad military campaign, or a policy of active regime change.
Yet, at the same time, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster are also making it clear that the United States “cannot stand idly by” if Assad continues to use chemical weapons.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
to describe Trunp’s decisive action. My fingers are fatter than when I was younger.
Well, who called this over a week ago? SCOTT ADAMS.
He said Trump had gone from “Hitler” to “incompetent,” and that the next step would be “incompetent” to “competent” then “competent” to “great.”
The US needs to send Hussein, Rice and JF’nK into Syria to corral all of the rest of the CWs.
Funny that....
But, but, he has morphed into a neocon war MONGORRRRRR surrounded by more neocon war MONGORRRRRRS
In think he jumped clear from Hitler” to “Competent” in the eyes of many.
Yes, Trump lacks the kind of grand foreign-policy doctrine pushed by the last two presidents
I think we at FR need to have a chat on this topic.
” I am still conflicted on the Syria strike, but keep reminding myself to trust our President to make the right decision.”
I’m with you. My trust is shaken at this point. You see, lately I have been shouting from the roof “Where is my federal firearms reciprocity” and at every turn I’ve been either attacked for my doubts on the Syrian maneuver, or I have been told that I don’t understand what’s going on, and that I should just shut the hell up and keep wearing my MAGA hat. Those are the nice days.
Some of our smarter contributors to FR have told me that I expect too much from the first 2 months of his presidency to expect him to address RKBA in the U.S.
I am waiting for someone, anyone, to counter this on my behalf. Less than 60 days into it and we can see him f*cking with the other two global superpowers using a military that is still a diminished and weakened “Obama Military” but my queries are simply too much to expect. A quickly drafted EO that reaffirms the US Constitution.
This easter I’m having dinner with my liberal inlaws. I have nothing to counter their insanity this week. Sorry folks, the shop is closed for renovations.
I want something - I, and we all, are owed something. We need to know that we made the right choice. Yes, economy is going well, businesses are coming back and the US is already better than 8 years of liberal lunacy had ever hoped to achieve. But (Yup, a but) the Syria thing, The Kushner rumors, now rumors of losing a GOP majority and mass dissension from us has spilled coffee on my favorite necktie.
We gotta come to terms with this. If this “works out” (And we have no idea what “works out” even means because we have no clear goals set) then I’ll eat a crow and get back in the good graces of FR and the rest of the Right. But for now, I need answers. I need a win.
The analysts have all been squawking the same thing: This is strategy. Well, be careful of that statement. “This is strategy” means that this ... An international incident and basically aggression .... This was the best move on the chess board ?
Don’t call this a win. This isn’t a win. This is a sign that there was no other better way of asserting US dominance in the world. This is not a win, this is a loss. And the sooner we can all accept this the sooner we can work towards a win.
So not even 60 days into the Trump presidency I’m told we don’t have what it takes to sign an RKBA EO, but we do have what it takes to piss on the boots of Russia and China ? Hardly. This move shows a global pro like Putin that we have no other moves on the board. We’re pushing pawns around.
We aren’t ready for this. Let Trump build up our military to unprecedented heights. Let the world fear us like they did under Reagan. Not because a mastermind has his finger on the button, but because any one of our soldiers are more capable than 100 of anyone else’s.
This is becoming about a man, not a nation.
Well, he sent our enemies a lot of money. That’s gotta count for Foreign Policy.
That’s just grand!
“That’s just grand!”
I wish ! It’s actually closer to a BILLION GRANDS
How is making REAL CLEAR that the new ROEs call to obliterate any attempted possession or use of chem/bio not a WIN? Notice the only Islamos not celebrating this are Iran and Assad himself.
I think I finally get it.
Obama did this all the time and the Chinese and Russians were ok with it because it was Obama.
But now that Trump has sent 60 missiles into chemical weapons dumps they are freaking out because it’s Trump.
I’m constantly reminding the enemy (The liberals that somehow find the courage to talk to me) that Obama did this shit daily, with innocent victims, and made sure that he personally assigned each every robotic drone himself.
I’ve been saying, even up to now, that Trump isn’t 1% the warmonger that Obama and the “peaceful people of the democratic party” are. Liberals are violent and love seeing innocent people (Children, babies and the elderly especially) die. Gruesome.
Trump isn’t Gruesome. No one in his cabinet is. These are reasonable people.
But now, NOW Russia wigs out because we are supposedly the biggest bullies in the world.
Another example of the media controlling literally everything we see and hear.
How many wars & military strikes have we conducted in the Middle East over the last 30 years or so and why should we expect this one to have a different outcome? With the Russians over there now it just makes it even more dangerous...We’re not going to stop all evil acts and our foreign policy can’t be dictated by emotional responses to pictures no matter how sad they may be.
I’m liking the NY Post lately — a good antidote to the competing NY Daily News.
Some people just need killing. Just saying.
“How is making REAL CLEAR that the new ROEs call to obliterate any attempted possession or use of chem/bio not a WIN?”
Well this is my problem. What you have stated there is an abstract - and not the actual event.
If the missile strikes demonstrate “real clear” that there is a new ROE then it also shows that we had no other way to demonstrate this. It tells the world that this is our best move. And I don’t believe that.
When George Bush went to Hiroshima on the anniversary of the Atomic Bomb, that was a brilliantly executed statement. Everything about that made me put my hand on my chest and make me proud to be part of the US and part of our impact on the world.
We’re not seeing this sort of thing this week. We’re scratching our heads and trying our best to hang on to what we hope is a Win.
At least I am. And I’m not dumb.
I would have been much happier if the reason for bombing Syria was
“Because they’re muslims. Duh.”
“We just wiped out a village of non-believers. Women, Children, hospitals and schools!”
“Oh sh!t! Don’t let Trump find out!!”
-—— This is what I want the future to look like.
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