Posted on 03/24/2016 2:15:41 PM PDT by Steelfish
DONALD TRUMP OPEN TO NUCLEAR RETALIATION AFTER BRUSSELS ATTACK
Reena Flores CBS News March 24, 2016 Donald Trump is not ruling out the use of nuclear weapons in the U.S. fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), according to an interview with the GOP front-runner that aired on Bloomberg TV Wednesday.
Asked if he would consider nuclear retaliation after this week's terror attacks in Brussels, Trump responded: "Well, I'm never gonna rule anything out. And I wouldn't wanna say. Even if I felt -- it wasn't going -- I wouldn't wanna tell you that because, at a minimum, I want them to think maybe that we would use it."
"The fact is that we need unpredictability," Trump said of his openness to using nuclear weapons. "When you ask a question like that, it's a very - it is a very sad thing to have to answer it because the enemy is watching and I have a very good chance of winning. I frankly don't want the enemy to know how I'm thinking. But with that being said, I don't rule out anything."
When pressed on whether he would have utilized America's nuclear capabilities after September 11, Trump said that he would only have used it as a "last resort."
During his interview, Trump emphasized that terrorists "are winning" and "we don't do anything about it."
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Great way to Beat Hillary. This ass is definitely going to lose the general election that will change our country forever. Watch the decisive “moderates” in droves especially in purple states embrace Bernie or Hillary
I see nothing wrong with his comments.
Break out the old Goldwater ads...
I would make it clear that any nuclear attack in the USA would result in a direct strike on mecca
But wait until you see the Goldwater ads
False headline:
Trump responded: “Well, I’m never gonna rule anything out. And I wouldn’t wanna say. Even if I felt — it wasn’t going — I wouldn’t wanna tell you that because, at a minimum, I want them to think maybe that we would use it.”
Break out the Reagan ads
Unlike Obama
Trump doesn't take off the table everything
Is Brussels part of the United States?
Try not to have the vapors, Steelfish.
Islam is used to mealy mouth responses from the West, so they have no desire to change what is obviously working for them.
They only fear superior force, and someone willing to use it on them.
As Bush said, “Nothing is off the table”
So I say drop the bomb
Of course it’s a false headline, but that won’t stop the Cruzaders from going giddy over leftist MSM anti-Trump sensationalism. WE’VE GOT A NOMINEE TO BLOCK HERE.
LOL
Reagan had them all thinking he would hit the button.
IMHO, Bush should have done just that on the afternoon of 9/11/2001.
Trump is proposing a Nixonian solution: Strategic Unpredictability.
“The madman theory was a primary characteristic of the foreign policy conducted by U.S. President Richard Nixon. His administration, the executive branch of the federal government of the United States from 1969 to 1974, attempted to make the leaders of other countries think Nixon was mad, and that his behavior was irrational and volatile. According to Nixon’s theory, leaders of hostile Communist Bloc nations would then avoid provoking the United States, fearing an unpredictable American response.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madman_theory
You love calling everyone a ‘neocon.’ (Even though you have no idea what the word means) Now you can call yourself a neocon!
I watched the interview, He made it clear he would not tell the enemy what he would and would not do. So This is a lie in that he said if they were to be used they would be as a last resort and he saw no need for their use so far, because ISIS could be defeated with conventional weapons. But CBS and GOPe Cruz bots will spin that to try to make it seem bad.
Spin, baby, spin. To spin is to lie.
Lying headline
What I heard him say was that he wouldn’t discuss what was and wasn’t on the table even if he wasn’t in favor of something. The press is twisting it all around as usual.
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