Posted on 04/28/2016 4:18:21 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Donald Trump may be okay with using nukes to destroy ISIS. Here’s his comments to the TODAY show on NBC:
It’s true he says he would be “the last to use” nukes, which could be taken as two different ways. On the one hand, Trump could be saying he doesn’t want to use nukes at all, and would wait until no other option existed (kinda like George W. Bush saying war is the last option, and we all know how that turned out). It could also mean Trump is saying he would be the last person to use nukes, because no one would think to use them after that (or we’d all be dead because The Apocalypse War would actually happen). I tend to think his comments are more of the former, than the latter.
Trump is going for this entire, “Don’t tell anyone my strategy,” but making this comment seems ludicrous. Why even bother with answering Savannah Guthrie’s question at all? It would have probably been smarter for Trump to go, “That’s a ridiculous question” or “That’s an interesting question, next one.” I can’t think of another presidential candidate actually being asked this sort of question, but maybe that’s the point. We’re in a really interesting time and presidential election, so all questions are on the table. What’s next, “Mr. Trump would you be willing to claim Antarctica or the Moon for America to get the land?”
There are obviously going to be people who support Trump’s strategy of putting the nuke option on the table because there’s this notion it could solve a lot of problems. But nuking ISIS would require hitting not just Iraq and Syria, but also nailing Libya where ISIS is starting to rise. It might even involve nailing Europe to take out all those refugees because, oh my Odin, all refugees are Muslims looking to establish a caliphate (except when they’re Christians trying to escape ISIS). I’m just not sure it’s a wise thing to come out and say it because it could foment more jihadis, not less.
The better option would be taking a hard look at the U.S.’s role in the world and whether it needs to be the “world police.” Trump has occasionally articulated this stance, which is a good thing. But Trump also wants to rid the world of ISIS with the military. From his speech yesterday (via Trump’s own transcript):
Events may require the use of military force. But it’s also a philosophical struggle, like our long struggle in the Cold War.
In this we’re going to be working very closely with our allies in the Muslim world, all of which are at risk from radical Islamic violence…
And then there’s ISIS. I have a simple message for them. Their days are numbered. I won’t tell them where and I won’t tell them how. We must as, a nation, be more unpredictable. But they’re going to be gone. And soon…
In the Middle East, our goals must be to defeat terrorists and promote regional stability, not radical change. We need to be clear-sighted about the groups that will never be anything other than enemies.
This is probably why the nuke question came up during the TODAY show interview. In certain aspects Trump is right about wanting to renegotiate deals and lessen the financial burden on America because of our debt. I can get behind that and him saying if we go to war, we have to want to win it (this detante strategy hasn’t worked at all). But his propensity to sit there and say, “We must do this!” or “I don’t want to do this, but I will if I have to,” shows his foreign policy may not be that much different from the other candidates he’s facing (except the Libertarian Party ones). Trump saying he won’t take nukes off the table also gets him more press, and gets his supporters even more rabid than they already were. Which is probably what he wanted all along.
Has Ted lied about Trumps speech yet?
The only way to attack Trump is to misrepresent his words.
Which the title does here one more time.
Geeesh.....
The Daily 202: 10 reasons Cruz’s Fiorina gambit will likely flop
Stupid headline
No president should reveal what options are on the table. HotSur is
just that
Very reminiscent of how they had tons of articles in 1980 claiming that Reagan would get us into a nuclear war with Russia. Instead, he saved us from ever having one.
Who is Taylor Millard?
Hot Air is an appropriate name for this website as that seems to be all they are full of. Cruz supporters are grasping at all straws now as they watch their idol go down in defeat. Sad.
Only a damned fool Democrat would take ANYTHING off the table.
The best target for a nuke would be Mecca. The cancer of ISIS comes from Islam itself
Start with Mecca, Medina, and Qom.
He's a panty-wearing liberal canary in a coal mine, so it's good he's all in a twist over this.
Hey Donald, when you nuke ISIS, start with the Kaaba - end this shit once and for all.
1400 years of insane butchery, civilization destruction and terrorism is enough. If the liberals squawk, nuke them too.
Stupid comment
No president should reveal what options are NOT on the table
Anyone who even thinks about using first strike weapons is Ineligible to hold the Office of the President of the United States!
Such a strike would end ALL life on this planet in 6 min. by every nation on the planet to unleash theirs against their favorite enemy/ies list.
Then when in the distant future, alien life does come to this planet, they will laugh at our bones, for our stupidity! Just because of the stance of 1 person & he is a narcissistic, sociopath.
I'm starting to come around to the idea myself.
On or off. Exclusions should never be telegraphed
Political,economic, psychosocial. and lastly military instrument of nation power to settle grievances between nations.
Nuking ISIS IS a good strategy, dumbass. It may not be necessary to nuke ISIS if we simply nuke Mecca, because the entire foundation of Islam would collapse upon the destruction of Mecca; that being said, it’s an option which must be kept on the table.
And Jihadists are born because they read the Quran or because they were influenced by their imams, not because of anything Americans do or say.
Muke Necca
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