Because this person was a paragon of credibility and integrity in the eyes of the Daily Bezos, wasn't he?
Posted on 05/17/2019 7:59:52 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
As Iran girds for possible war with the United States, President Trump may turn out to be the best friend it has.
Despite the saber-rattling of senior aides and Trump’s own tweets, when push has come to shove over the past two years, the president has repeatedly backed away from the threatened use of military force.
Whether the target has been North Korea, with which warnings of “fire and fury” have become little more than an exchange of “beautiful” letters between Trump and Kim Jong Un, or Venezuela, where the threat of “all options” has failed to upset the status quo, the president has blinked. With Iran, the dispatch of a U.S. aircraft carrier and a bomber task force, as well as reported plans to deploy 120,000 troops, were quickly followed by Trump’s insistence that he only wants to talk to Iranian leaders.
Trump has said that there is no inconsistency in his administration’s messaging but that the image of incoherence can be useful. “At least Iran doesn’t know what to think, which at this point may very well be a good thing!” he tweeted Friday.
But as he moves more deeply into the second half of his term with major foreign policy issues unresolved, Trump’s credibility has suffered, and his options have narrowed.
“If you make threats and then people decide you aren’t going to follow through, if you’re looking for the reaction and you stop getting the reaction, the options are either to make larger threats or to stop going down that road at all,” said Jon B. Alterman, Middle East Program director at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
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Because this person was a paragon of credibility and integrity in the eyes of the Daily Bezos, wasn't he?
In the past, frightened, weak Presidents worried about what anti-American dictators might do.
Now, every anti-American dictator worries about what Trump might do !
These “great diplomats” at the WP think that certainty and predictability are the best way to deal with hostile dictators.
They are such fools !
With Trump, the dictators worry every day: “Who knows what Trump might do ? This guy is capable of anything.”
That’s what we want. We want foreign dictators to worry !
He has repeatedly stated he was releasing the classified records during the past year;...... we’re waiting.
Bahrain asks its citizens to leave Iran, Iraq ‘immediately’ https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-iran-bahrain/bahrain-asks-its-citizens-to-leave-iran-iraq-immediately-idUSKCN1SO0BN
President Trump is bleeding them dry. Slowly and methodically. His supposed inaction is itself an action. If he gets a second term the mullahs will fall, and the Iranian people (who for the most part are free thinking western values oriented people, notwithstanding the autocratic regime they are forced to live under) will be free. If so, history will judge this as his greatest achievement.
WaPo and NYT desperately want Trump to go to war with Iran ...
Trump is smart enough that he probably realizes if he did the opposite of everything WaPo said he should do, he’d have a pretty darn sound set of policies!
Chances are, if the Mullahs fall, another bunch of tyrants will take over. Most countries in the world are not like Western “Democracies.”
Perhaps. And I hope you’re wrong. I know a number of Iranian expats who feel the same way. If President Trump can plant the seeds of a second ‘revolution’ there, then may whatever God one believes in give him power.
Don’t be silly!
DiFi called the Iranian Ambassador to ask him to recommend a “new” driver for her..
Sending carrier fleets IS use of military force.
“...Iranian people (who for the most part are free thinking western values oriented people, notwithstanding the autocratic regime they are forced to live under...”
I have had the pleasure of Iranian friends and will welcome the day these people are free to once again become a great American friend and ally.
I just flushed a big pile that was of greater value than the Washington comPost.
Keep ‘em confused. Wow, the Amazon Post is still confused and hasn’t figured out that Trump always keeps his adversaries confused.
If the Bezos Post is worried about Trump’s credibility, that credibility will be strengthened with an indictment or two. Preferably before the election.
Why are we interested in what the WaPost says about President Trump ?????
Go to war to give Donald street cred. Right. Brilliant idea./s
If he doesn’t bomb them into the stone age, will the author be flapping his arms and making chicken noises?
He’s stepping up to Iran, but if there’s to be war, let them start it, if they’re feeling lucky. That’s exactly what he should be doing.
As soon as I saw the title in the sidebar, I was wondering which gang of fools and morons it was coming from...
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