[Bishop_Malachi]

“President Trump prefers diplomacy.”

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I’m not sure the Big Stick Diplomacy will play very well. There’s lots of things he can do that are less divisive to his own party than this. Who are the people that have his ear in this issue?

[Sirius Lee]

I’m not sure the Big Stick Diplomacy will play very well.

I think turning the ayatollah and his IRGC into crispy atoms plays very well.

[Blurb2350]

“Who are the people that have his ear in this issue?” The usual suspects . . .

[fortes fortuna juvat]

There’s lots of things he can do that are less divisive to his own party than this. Who are the people that have his ear in this issue?
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Such as?

[spintreebob]

There are gradations of divisivness.

Send money to Iran as Biden did is at one end.
Don’t get invovled one way or the other is in the middle.
An air strike against nuclear facilities is slightly to one side.
A limited ground campaign: Get in, do major damage, kill the Republican Guard in a step more intensive.
Full scale invasion a la Iraq is the most intensive and the Bush/Cheney way.

Trump is choosing the centrist of these 5 alternatives which will make those on both sides critics.

Note that critics of Trump will argue for both extremes at the same time, which indicates they are grandstanding and not serious.