Posted on 03/31/2011 6:57:12 PM PDT by Red Steel
Donald Trump may be the only person in America to consider President Barack Obama a jingoist. In the final installment of his interview series with Bill O’Reilly the real estate magnate turned reality TV star turned 2012 hopeful pulled no punches on the President’s foreign policy in the Middle East, calling the perception of Obama as a non-interventionist erroneous given that “every time I look he’s going into another country.”
While yesterday’s interview segment focused on his interest in the President’s birth certificate, this time around O’Reilly quizzed Trump on issues that he would have to realistically face as President, particularly the struggle for stability in the Middle East. Trump apparently found the Bush doctrine of promoting democracy for democracy’s sake in the Middle East preposterous, noting that, in the old days, “when you won victories, you win… to the victor go the spoils.” He noted that leaving Iraq in the recent future would be an unwise move because it would give Iran space to attempt an invasion for control of the oil fields, and America is “not going to have enough heart to go back.” “If Iran is going to take over the oil, we stay and we keep the oil,” he argued simply. The objective, he said, was to “pay ourselves back a trillion and a half dollars more… and don’t be so stupid” that America invested in the Iraq war.
Calling himself a war scholar since “my whole life is a war,” Trump reiterated several times his belief that no war is complete without bringing something home. “A country goes in, they conquer, and they stay. We go in, we conquer, and we leave it to people we don’t even know.” This concern most vividly appeared with the current situation in Libya. Here, Trump argued that the Arab League should be paying America’s military costs– a point with which O’Reilly agreed– and noted his perception of President Obama as a warmonger. “Our weak president that kisses everybody’s ass is in more wars than anybody else,” he noted, sighing, “you’re talking about me like I’m a warmonger.”
While, as a businessman, Trump’s forte will always be in economic issues should he choose to run in 2012, his foreign policy rhetoric proved significantly more presidential than his complaints about Obama’s birth certificate, and will win him points among the more hawkish on the right and perhaps even corroborate his economic rhetoric.
Trump is giving a lot of straight talk.
I’ve got to agree with “the Donald”. Barry is definitely the Mother of All Ass Kissers.
I’m thinking I might vote for a straight talker like Trump instead of any of the weasel-mouthed RINOs - Sarah Palin NOT included in that category of course!
Let’s hope and pray that the majority of Americans agree with and follow Trump’s correct feeling of buyers remorse. If not, we got another 4 years of this man.
I only wish John McCain would be able to get that same feeling of buyers remorse about Obama. Last I saw he’s still liking Obama quite a lot.
The ego said last night that what Trump said about the Iraq war was strange. What did he say that made the ego’s hair stand on end?
The sentiment is correct, but Trump is a classless jerk. Could have said this in a gentlemanly way, but I suppose he is not familiar with the ways of gentlemen.
In perfect relief
Yes, by all means, let’s be polite to lying Marxist usurpers. /s
I don’t wish anything for McCain other than retirement.
Given all of Obama’s radical connections, war decisions without congress, destructive oil policies, money printing. —I’m with Trump. O needs to be vetted, this is a security issue not knowing his background. Financially we are being drained. It is like we are being set up.
You must not know any liberals. There's a lot of lefties that are deeply, profoundly upset at Obama for continuing Bush policies. Iraq. Afghanistan. Guantanamo Bay. Bradley Manning. Terrorist tribunals. They're simply appalled that he's going into Libya.
Moreover, everyone in the middle and on the right sees Obama exposed as a blazing, colossal hypocrite. He may not be a saber-rattling warmonger, but he's certainly not the starry eyed dove he was pretending to be. He's been exposed thoroughly as a word mincing opportunist with no core values or principles.
He may not be a 'jingoist' but he's certainly okay with preemptive military strikes on largely whimsical grounds. I don't know what the term for that would be, but the idea of 'Obama the jingoist' isn't as far fetched now as it was in 2008.
To hell with gentlemanly ways. This is war man. War with the Muslim, Socialist that’s in the White House and all his democrat minions.
It is quickly becoming Palin, Cain and Bachmann. I have seen a couple of things that concern me about Congresswoman Bachmann and lead me to believe she needs to stay in the House. There is a lot to be said for having had Executive Experience. Things like assembling a loyal staff over a long period of time. MB has been through a lot of staff over the past couple of years. Some of her former staff have aligned themselves with PawPaw. Somebody on the current staff has a big mouth. We know how Bachmann legislates we don't have an idea as to how she would govern from the Executive Office.
Donald looked very good on BOR tonight. Well spoken. Even mentioned tariffs on China which no one else will. Not a free traitor type, that is for sure
I hope that Donald may have awakened a sleeping giant.
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