Sad to lodi90 fall for the Fallacy of the Excluded Middle.
It is clearly possible to support the Trump presidency while questioning certain policy decisions. Having to choose between unquestioning support and #NeverTrump is a false dilemma.
It is an injustice to the loyal supporters of President Trump to characterize the questioning of US involvement in Afghanistan as #NeverTrump.
Most sane people would not place a meaningful wager that somehow this time things in Afghanistan are going to be any different. Who would wager their car, or house, or retirement, confident that this time we possess the special secret sauce of victory?
It’s perfectly fine to question our involvement and disagree with staying and ramping up troops, but what the big hysterical lie is that POTUS is changing his position on Afghanistan because he’s the puppet of the McMasters or others. DJT as a presidential candidate ran on staying and continuing to fight in Afghanistan.
Since we’re digging up Spock, causation (cau·sa·tion
n/ noun 1. the action of causing something, (which seems like tautology, but sometimes you simply have to put it in one’s hand) and `non sequitur’
1: an inference (see inference 2) that does not follow from the premises; specifically : a fallacy resulting from a simple conversion of a universal affirmative proposition or from the transposition of a condition and its consequent.
It is tempting to use ad hominem, to point out the support from the Chicago Tribune and all the other lefty rags, along with unbridled approbation from the dirty scoundrels, nevertrumpers who twisted our foreign policy into pretzels over the last eight years—all applauding President Trump’s speech last night. But that’s a fallacy.
An analogy—DACA was an Obama presidential executive order, a flatly illegal order. President Trump could kill it with another EO. So to say that Texas and a court can decide the matter doesn’t follow anymore than the left saying that a court could order DACA continued. President Trump is correct in stating recently that DACA is within his wheelhouse and no other.
Afghanistan: McMaster & the neocons, Pakistan, terrorism, 3,298 level chess, the solar eclipse—any reasons one might assign to continuation of this endless war which just celebrated its Sweet Sixteen birthday, any of the `real reasons’ one might ascribe to its continuation ...
in fact one man decides whether to put this poor student next through high school and college ... and then for how long?
As far as assigning responsibility for a decision to pour even more American blood and treasure into this sink which has been called the place “Where Empires Go To Die’—all non sequiters.
Sending more troops and assets to Afghanistan is the exact opposite of what candidate Trump said he would do. This is within President Trump’s wheelhouse and no other.
It is clearly possible to support the Trump presidency while questioning certain policy decisions. Having to choose between unquestioning support and #NeverTrump is a false dilemma.
There are just as many stories critical of Trump on Breitbart today as there are on CNN. Maybe more. If that isn’t working for Never Trump, nothing is. Buy a clue, FRiend.