Posted on 09/09/2015 12:21:01 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Donald Trump lambasted the Obama administration's agreement with Iran at a rally against the deal held on the west lawn of the Capitol on Wednesday. Trump promised to bring home the four Americans held hostage in Iran BEFORE becoming the next president of the United States.
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On January 21, 1981, just a few hours after Ronald Reagan delivered his inaugural address, the remaining hostages were released. They had been in captivity for 444 days.
That’s what Reagan did. So it’s possible.
trump remembers how fast Iran got rid of hostages when Reagan took office. he is basically signaling to Iran that they are in danger of parts of there desert being turned into glass. I am starting to think trump understands what a lot of republicans and no democrat understands.
The only thing another bully listens to is someone willing to use force and not be apologetic about it.
Third world countries should fear us not we fear them.
nice.
“Our enemies may be irrational, even outright insane, driven by nationalism, religion,
ethnicity or ideology. They do not fear the United States for its diplomatic skills or
the number of automobiles and software programs it produces. They respect only the
firepower of our tanks, planes and helicopter gunships.”
— President Ronald Reagan
Wow. That would be awesome. And show what a loser our POS is as well.
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>> “For that he’ll need Schwarzenegger” <<
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Why, does he need a blow-job?
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And the left will give ALL the credit to Obama.
“Wow. That would be awesome. And show what a loser our POS is as well.”
True.
However,
Our loser POS King Obama and his lapdog slurping media in kneepads will give OBAMA credit for the hostages being released while King Obama is still King.
Bank on it.
:')
Yep....you can bank on it. I even say obama may even toss them into the mix now, then congress can say OK fine to Iran deal.
If the deal does not go through what then happens to the 4 hostages?
Smart to lay down a marker to ensure that Obama doesn’t get credit.
“Ronald Trump?”
Ah ha ha..you like to live dangerously i see.
I just hope there’s no more ‘nation building’. Punitive military action only.
I myself do not believe in nation building.....if the country wants help lets help but if it wants to circle the drain and go down the drain allow it maybe after words who ever is left will want to go about the business of building there own country.
Nation building: Japan, Germany, Western Europe after WWII
No nation building: Yugoslavia / Serbia, Somalia, Libya...
Aborted / unfinished nation building: Afghanistan, Iraq... many formerly French or English colonies in Africa...
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Nothing wrong with nation building as long as you break it into little pieces before putting it back together. That is where we failed in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
the European nations wanted to recover and work with the united states....we did not do nation building we helped those nations recover from war. those other nations Yugoslavia Serbia and Libya had no national identity and was little more then grouping of war lords. I am all for helping but the united States just cant force a group to come together they must decide on there own to do the work needed for having a nation state.
That's "nation building" — and it came despite some native factions who didn't want or understand the new structure.
Iraq and Afghanistan, despite their tribal factions (which could have been accommodated, even if eventually requiring separation or breakup into few autonomous or semi-autonomous regions, essentially undoing British screw-ups that arbitrarily joined them decades ago) were on the way to being functional, stable sovereign states, with bases and beachheads for US troops, which would hold in check mostly defeated al-Qaeda, as well as Iran (in the middle between Iraq and Afghanistan) and stabilizing much of the Middle East and East Africa.
Nation building in Germany was different from nation building in Japan, just as it was different from nation building in either Iraq and Afghanistan, but it's very different from "help" (which is usually in the form of "send us money and butt out of our internal affairs") which rarely works unless there is already a democratic regime, in which case "nation building" is not [usually] required anyway.
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