Posted on 05/13/2016 12:39:30 AM PDT by goldstategop
Trump says he'll rebuild the U.S. military and our missile defense in particular, but avoid committing U.S. forces overseas. The neo-conservatives never will forgive him for this. It means that they are out of a job, and when they say that Trump means "the end of the Republican Party," they mean the end of the Republican Party that used to employ them. Robert Kagan and Max Boot have gone to the Clinton camp.
A Trump presidency almost certainly means that Chinese and Russian influence will grow faster and with fewer obstacles than it might have otherwise. That is not entirely a bad thing: the West is too squeamish to deal with the monstrous mess that radical Islam has created. I am not comfortable with Trump's isolationism. If he rebuilds America's military prowess (and especially our missile defenses), as he proposes to do, other errors can be fixed. If we don't restore our military power, nothing else we do will matter. Can you imagine Hillary Clinton rebuilding the American military?
To those who abandon the Republican Party in this hour of crisis, I say: Good riddance! Go now, and never come back. Your bad advice and dogmatic arrogance brought America from a lone pinnacle of greatness in 2001 to second-rate status in 2016, the fastest decline of a dominant power since Napoleon invaded Russia. Go pester the Democrats, and do as much damage to them as you did to us Republicans.
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I realize my backing him puts me (a long time neo-con) on their blacklist but I don't see how Hillary will restore American greatness. If we don't do that, America won't matter much on the world scene. Spengler is right their bad advice and arrogance ushered in 8 years of Obama and now they want to inflict four more years of him in the person of Hillary upon our country.
Thanks but no thanks.
Case closed.
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To any and all: This election is about one thing and one thing only - Our survival as a nation. With Trump, we have a chance. With SWMNBN, we have no chance.
I’m actually comfortable with Trump’s isolationism. We need to fix our own house and take care of our own people before we take care of the rest of the world.
No one else is going to take care of us. A family looks after its own first and foremost.
We’re a bankrupt and dying country. If we don’t address the grave illness that would send us the way of other extinct civilizations, no one is going to be around to read these messages.
If we do, its because we all acted in time to save America before its too late. And the hour is late.
Isolationism has much deeper historical roots in American tradition—shifting back to this would be returning to business as usual.
Prior to WW2 we generally steered clear of geopolitical entanglements. In the aftermath of WW2, we’ve never stopped being entangled.
If he we didn’t fight WWI and WWII, Europe would now be getting conquered by muslims.
Why would they be getting conquered by Muslims?
Trump harkens back to the Founder’s beliefs that America not become entangled in foreign intrigues. In that, Trump is much more in tune with the genuine American spirit than 90% of so-called Republican conservatives who are, in reality, two-faced lying jackwads who mouth a good game but are liars to self, first and foremost.
They ARE being conquered by murdering raping muslime hordes. WW1 and WW2 were mostly in vain.
We DID fight the two wars and Europe IS being taken over by Muslims. I do not mean this in jest. It is happening.
Because Hitler would have let tens of millions of Africans and Arabs flood into Europe.
“Because Hitler would have let tens of millions of Africans and Arabs flood into Europe.”
Why would he have done that? More likely he would have exterminated them.
don’t look now, but they are being conquered by Muslims.
That’s impossible. We spent a ton of money and lives to defeat Hitler.
Hitler hated Jews. Muslims hate Jews. Therefore, if Hitler had won he would have let in hundreds of millions of Africans and muslims into Europe.
I didn't abandon the Republican Party. The Republican Party abandoned me.
I doubt that a Nazi Europe would’ve let Africans & Muslims flood the continent.
You are absolutely right. Hitler would surely have exterminated Muslims. Muslims and Jews are the seed of Abraham and certainly not Aryan.
Or largely left them alone in their own homelands so long as they continued to be cooperative vassal states.
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