[over3Owithabrain]

Exactly. If someone attacks you and you respond, that by definition is not an attack it is a defense (or counterattack).

Trump should just do what all losing GOP candidates do - take all the abuse and lose.

[kabar]

Right, that has been the problem with the GOP. They let the Dems set the narrative. Bush 43's failure to defend his policies and answer the critics has helped the Dems to rewrite history. We had the sorry spectacle of Jeb admitting the war was a mistake. It wasn't.

The mistake was snatching defeat from the jaws of victory by Obama. We are now reaping the consequences. There are now over 3,000 US boots on the ground in Iraq and thousands more engaged in bombing Iraq and Syria from ships and ashore in places like Turkey.