Posted on 03/23/2018 7:34:50 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Among the many things they have in common, President Trump and John Bolton, his newly designated national security adviser, both have traded insults with North Korean leaders. After Bolton called Kim Jong Il, the father of the current leader, a “tyrannical dictator” during the George W. Bush administration, Kim labeled the then-State Department official the “envoy of evil” and “rude human scum.”
Trump and Bolton also have volatile tempers and a tendency to want to fire those who challenge them.
In recent months, Bolton has echoed Trump’s use of Twitter for pithy statements about complicated issues. The Iran nuclear deal was a “mistake,” he tweeted, and the United States should “tear [it] up.” He lauded Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital as an “injection of reality.”
Like Trump (sometimes), however, he has opined that a military strike against North Korea would be more effective than trying to negotiate. During negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program, he suggested that bombing Iran was a better option.
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My feelings towards him are so unusual:
Love him to pieces for his fire and UN hostility yet I feel certain we’ll be embroiled in a series of expensive and needless wars.
He’s the fire of Trump + the globalism of McCain.
SUCH a weird combo.
Maybe he can get a staff that will help him find those WMDs he screamed about.
“Love him to pieces for his fire and UN hostility yet I feel certain we’ll be embroiled in a series of expensive and needless wars.”
And so please tell what are the “series of expensive and needless wars?” You mean you are content to kick the can down the road with NK until they actually launch a nuclear-tipped missile at us? Or maybe you’re o.k. with those insane Mullahs in Iran who would launch a missile at us just to watch it go! Those needless wars? The time is long past for “negotiating” with either of these countries, unless you’re taking a couple of crash courses. One in the Queeran, and the other in North Korean.
However, I’ll never forget the way he told the UN to stuff it when it came to the USA and their international firearms treaty they tried to foisted on us.
I still believe that whatever WMD’s Saddam had were transferred to Syria before we invaded which was delayed too long. We’ll never know.
We dropped 26,172 bombs in Obama’s last year as president.
We dropped 12,192 bombs in Syria.
We made 2,963 airstrikes in Syria in 2016.
Syria doesn’t want us there, we were bombing their government forces.
We were training and funding terrorists to fight against Syria.
6,000 Russians and an unknown number of Iranians are fighting alongside of Syria against us and our rebels in Syria, we have 2,000 U.S. troops on the ground there.
We created the wars in Egypt, Libya and Syria in 2011 while Obama was president.
Our CIA started arming the rebels in 2013 when John Brennan was their head.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/24/world/middleeast/us-relies-heavily-on-saudi-money-to-support-syrian-rebels.html
Under Obama, ISIS held 40 percent of Iraq and one third of Syria when President Trump took over.
ISIS no longer controls any cities in Iraq or Syria.
The governments of Iraq and Afghanistan want our help.
Syria doesn’t want our help.
We helped the terrorists overthrow the governments of Egypt and Libya.
Obama came right out and said in 2011 that Syria’s President Assad had to go.
Mattis says that we have no objective in ousting Syria’s president.
President Obama was using money from the Saudis, Qatar and the UAE to train the rebels.
President Trump met with 55 Muslim leaders and got them to cut the funding of terrorists.
Schiff wrote a bill to allow trainers, advisers, intelligence officers and special operations forces in Syria.
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/19/opinion/military-action-in-syria-requires-a-new-aumf.html
You’re right. Remember the huge convoys of trucks from Iraq to Syria before the war?
Yeah - those WMDs
Bolton is a serial
failure
he is a loud mouth loser
Agreed, buried in the shifting sands somewhere in Syria.
I like John Bolton. He knows we are the Superpower, and leads as he understands a superpower should lead. None of this wimpy “if you please” type language, either the spoken word, or body. He says what needs saying, and means it.
He’s the type of guy the enemy hates, because worst case he exposes them for what they are, and kicks their asses only as needed.
The good news is that Bolton may help put California back into play. On days like today especially, that’s not an insignificant attribute.
"Donald Trump would do well to steer clear of every pr!ck who worked for either Bush administration in any capacity involving foreign/military affairs. -- posted on 2/19/2017 10:08:38 PM by Alberta's Child
I recall that several mobile labs used to mfr. WMD were found in Iraq and an Iraqi AF General even wrote a book about how they had moved their WMD to Syria via aircraft and trucks before the war.
Check your history on those who believed there were WMDs. Not just Bolton.
I have ‘always’ contended that if ‘WE KNEW’ there were NO WMDs, we surely would have found some.
We went in with the data they were there so we had no reason to plant any.
Statements of opinion, devoid of reasoning are like...
Never mind.
Karen De Young is “famously” or more accurately, “imfamously” known for her blatantly pro-communist news coverage of the Marxist Sandinista movement/guerrillas that overthrow the government of Somoza in Nicaragua in 1979 (thus letting in the PLO, the Soviets, Cubas and drugs).
If you don’t believe me, go back to 1978-80 articles she wrote about the Sandinistas and you’ll see a perfect example of Soviet-style “disinformation” on who the three factions were (two Cuban-like and one Maoist), and the fact that all 9 “commandants” of these factions were AVOWED Marxists, with Tomas Borge being a convicted murderer.
Most were trained in Cuba and reportedly elsewhere by the Soviets/KBG, the PLO and PFLP, possibly the IRA and Basques, and aided by some American communists.
Never, ever trust Karen De Young. In fact, you can rarely trust the Wash. Post to be accurate, unbiased, objective, or even intellectually honest on most things they write/publish today.
The heads of Pravda, Tass and Izvestia would be proud of their American counterpart.
And Syria is listed as a state sponsor of terrorism since 1979, Assad found guilty of associating with Al Qaeda. Allowed terrorists to have camps and attack the US and coalition forces during the Iraq war to such an extent, the Bush administration almost expanded the war there.
Those WMDs were in Iraq. They were moved to Syria and were used to cross Obama's red line. There are so many reports by on the ground units finding things the MSM refuses to report. But you get your information from...............?
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