Posted on 03/30/2026 11:35:33 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
On Monday’s CNN This Morning, the network cast President Trump less as the Commander-in-Chief than as a common street criminal.
Global affairs analyst Kim Dozier -- who was a longtime overseas reporter for CBS News -- likened Trump’s negotiating posture toward Iran to an armed robbery, suggesting the U.S. was telling Tehran: agree to Washington’s demands, “or else this is a stick-up.”
Discussing the gap between competing U.S. and Iranian proposals, Dozier brushed aside diplomacy as little more than window dressing.
“The fact of the matter is the 15-point plan that the U.S. has put forward versus Iran's five-point plan are so far apart that it would take weeks, if not months, to bring them together. It feels more like the U.S. is saying, agree to these 15 points or else this is a stick-up.”
In Dozier’s telling, Trump isn’t engaging in hard-nosed negotiation; he’s cast as an armed thug.
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How true.
I agree.
She is a far-left nut. I looked her up. She also was severely injured in an Iraqi bombing. Too bad she is not wiser from her travails.
CNN is part of Iran’s Defense Strategy. And it is a damn effective one for them.
In WW2, CNN would be making excuses for Hitler and the NAZI’s. CNN is filled with far leftwing lunatics who should be placed in a mental asylum.
It takes an SOB to fight SOBs
Best King ever.
Iran has managed to target and kill thousands, if not hundred of thousands, of innocent civilians worldwide with it’s terror.
I don’t really care if Trump ‘holds them up’ or not, they got Karma coming to them.
What's her FR nick?
Unfortunately the people at CNN and most in the MSM do not have the capacity or insight to understand the existential threat that confronts Israel. Iran is run by a fundamentalist regime that continually leads its people in chants of “death to Israel” and has promised to destroy the “Zionist entity”. That regime has managed to produce large amounts of enriched uranium and has also managed to construct or acquire deadly drones and ballistic missiles. The leaders of Israel would be naive and negligent if they ignored this threat to their nation and people. It is logical and necessary that they would attack and seek to depose this regime while they have the military advantage. It is also understandable that they would seek by hook or crook the aid of their allies. If however at the end of hosilities the regime, although weakened, remains and the enriched uranium is not secured, then this war will have been a failure. Moreover the political consequences for both Israel and America will be significant.Americans historically do not support the expenditure of blood and treasure in foreign war/entanglements when America itself is not directly attacked. The current leadership which is supportive of Israel may be superseded by demonic, lunatic, anti Semitic hedonists who will clearly not be sympathetic to Israel or Jews. They will also be toxic to the American nation and its people.
Much is at stake in the next three to four weeks. The results will dictate much of what will evolve for the world in the near future.
Like every other leftard.
Is there are version of this that’s in English?
A couple dickless dimbulbs.
Of course CNN is going to side with Iran over Trump. It’s the old saying, “The enemy of my enemy is my friend.” Trump is the #1 enemy.
That’s just at Beirut…. Doesn’t count Khobar Towers, USS Cole, etc etc
I have no problem with using power on terrorists.
I think the Marines are going into Kharg Island. But like a dog catching the bumper on the Chevy... what next?
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