Posted on 04/16/2017 7:03:07 AM PDT by Trump20162020
Gorka says president made pragmatic call on Syrian strike, suggests little risk of escalation
Sebastian Gorka, deputy assistant to the president, said on Friday morning that President Donald Trump’s populist supporters need not fear that the decision to strike a Syrian government target last week represents an embrace of neoconservatism.
“It’s not a modification,” Gorka said Friday on “The Laura Ingraham Show.” “Donald J. Trump hasn’t changed from November 7 to Good Friday, April 14,” he said.
“This isn’t 2003, this isn’t 1991 and the Gulf War, and the president has not changed one bit,” Gorka said. “This is not the Bush administration, and it is not neoconservatism.”
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It won't. No offense to Gorka but who cares what he says? I was okay with Syria strike as long as it remains an isolated strike, not escalating into something bigger. But I'm not okay with no wall, no tax cuts, no repeal and replace. And so far it seems Trump is softening on all of them. Give me one of them and maybe I'll start to relax but for now I'm getting nervous that the establishment clowns like Paul Ryan are wearing him down and ruining his presidency.
What really is meant by “neocon”? The term gets thrown around a lot and seems to apply to different classes of people, but always seems to be used in a negative connotation.
The only silver lining is the soldiering experience our military has picked up.
I disagree. GWB wasn’t duped into invading Iraq. He just needed some flimsy excuse to do so — in retaliation for how they treated Daddy — the assassination attempt and all.
That is why the excuse of Saddam about to use WMD sent Powell to the UN, etc.
GWB intended to finish the job Daddy failed to do — remove Saddam Hussein from power.
The only reason it seems like Trump is softening on those positions is that he can’t snap his fingers and make it happen. He has to work with the hairball of 535 competing personal agendas that is Congress. The presidency is different then being a CEO.
Thank you...
So many here still look at Trump though a political worldview...
He broke that mold...
The MSM will never figure this out...
“Saddam Hussein would have rolled on through Saudi Arabia if we hadn’t stopped him.”
You say that like it’s bad thing.
Neoconservative are politicians who are in their hearts are Democrats but left the party because they went pacifist...
Their core belief is the USA should should shed american blood and treasure to force democracy across the world...
Think McCain....
Why do you folks get so upset at what other think? :)
I’m thrilled to have that clarified and it actually put me at ease.
It’s called having an open mind.
It ROCKS! :)
Good points.
And MAGA doesn’t mean “Make America Go Away”. As he focuses on the agenda to put America first that means externally as well as internally. It will do us little good to restore the US economy if the rest of the world is on fire. The US will always have a rightful role to punish evil-doers anywhere in the world that threatend our values and prosperity and when Trump does so he is being a pragmatic populist, not an ideologue or a neocon. World peace is good for business.
Spoken like a true neocon. Removing Saddam from power was not his job.
Bush Sr understood that. Junior thought he was the president of the world and wanted to give better jobs and schools to the Iraqi people. He failed.
“I don’t have a problem with the first Gulf war. Saddam Hussein would have rolled on through Saudi Arabia if w hadn’t stopped him.” - Helicondelta says: You say that like it’s bad thing.
Actually, it was Sybeckil that said it. But I was in agreement as well.
For one thing, the issue at the time was the death of the petrodollar. We were utterly dependent on ME oil at the time with rising budget deficits and could ill-afford for the USD to crash.
There are other reasons, of course, but that is a main one.
I like him, too.
So true.
Excellent description.
That’s what I was thinking.
George W. Bush is now and always will be the WORST president of the modern era. Had it not been for his ineptness, his ignorance, his outright blithering STUPIDITY, we never would have suffered from eight years of Obama. Bush enabled Obama in just about every way as a chief executive. Showed Obama how to get away with abusing executive privilege. In many ways Bush MADE Obama.
Bush betrayed conservatives, betrayed the rule of law, betrayed the American servicemen and servicewomen who chose to spend years of their lives serving their country and only asked that their services be used wisely, betrayed Christians with his "religion of peace" bullsh-t, betrayed the Constitution, betrayed EVERYONE. He and his supporters conned a lot of people and too many of them practically WORSHIPED the man.
But today, they are shown to be fools. Utter fools.
Some of them gave me a hard time when I tried to warn them about Bush. About how he was taking this nation to the edge with his delusions of being king of the world and fantasies of playing wartime leader like Churchill and FDR.
Those people don't say anything about Bush today. I don't press the issue with them. I still consider them friends. This isn't something to lose friendships over.
But deep down within the recesses of my heart?
I'm savoring... just SAVORING... the schadenfreude.
Actually, no, his job is to keep his oath of office. That means respect the Constitution, and protect life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Same as all the others
A neocon is a poser, a fake, a fraud. He’s the entrenched career establishment republican, who’s good with nation building adventure$, globalism, free trade robbery, open borders and biz as usual for the D.C. insiders. A neocon is all about profits regardless of consequences or what it means to America or Americans etc. Hope this helps clear things up for ya!
Bravo!
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