Posted on 12/05/2015 10:50:10 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski
...And you know how pro-American Middle Eastern Muslims usually are. I understand he has a beef with Trump but is there any actual evidence of this happening? Which Middle Eastern countries are seeing protests over what one guy in one party’s primary in the United States may or may not have said about a registry of Muslims? More specifically, which Muslims who weren’t already inclined to dislike America for other reasons have suddenly tilted towards disapproval now that Trump can’t stop talking about celebrations in New Jersey on 9/11? The bitter irony of this clip, of which every dove reading this is already aware, is that McCain’s brand of interventionism in the region has doubtless alienated many, many, many more Muslims than Trump has in his interviews. You can get a taste of that in this tracker of favorable views of America over the past 15 years published in June by Pew:
Lebanon is complicated because it’s multisectarian but the Sunni states — Turkey, Jordan, and the Palestinian territories — all saw a dive circa 2003, the year the U.S. invaded Iraq, with only modest recovery since. (European opinion also dropped and has yet to come all the way back in Germany and the UK from its 1999-2000 high.) American intervention in the region is a staple of jihadi propaganda when recruiting, as a casus belli to either remove the Crusaders from the region or to fight the Shiites brought to power by the Americans in Baghdad. None of which is to say that intervention is wrong per se — you might conclude that removing Saddam was worth risking all of that — but you might want to ease off on pointing fingers about risking damage to Muslim opinion...
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That’s probably his problem.
And this loser has credibility, why?
It ain’t Trump. It’s the koran.
McCain must be insane. Muslims are already against us and have been killing us at a regular basis for years. Trump just spoke the truth and how we must deal the radical types.
Hmmmmm.
now where have we heard that before. ??????
Coming from the man who has helped in supplying ISIS.
McCain is a danger to this country
Yup.
Looking more and more like that’s what’s been going on for a couple decades now.
What an idiot. That’s like saying Israeli rhetoric is turning Palestinians against them. Hello? They were already against us. That’s why the rhetoric.
Hey Mac!
The ONLY behavior the Islamic Terrorists are responding to is Bambi’s refusal to go after them.
NOTHING that Trump or any other American can or will do, will motivate or discourage Islamic Terrorists.
Coming from the man who has helped in supplying ISIS....Why is NO Republican SHOWING this!!!!?
McCain is always good for a laugh.
Things like this are why people are NO going for whomever the GOPe sends in for nomination
These are insane ramblings of McCain. He is no different from the way he was when he ran for president.
I looked at this headline and started to laugh; a very serious topic and a totally unserious man. One who never loses an opportunity to score points with the “press” as a “maverick” by smearing conservative Republicans while constantly kissing up to the Harry Reids of this world.
Keating 5 McCain knows how to vet good Syrian terrorists from bad ones. And he sends your tax money to the good ones
This is going to sound crazy, but I believe saudis had something to do with Juan giving it up for the won.
I believe this happened during the emergency meeting that was closed to the press in 2008 just before the general.
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