Based on the lessons of history, the particular executive orders would probably be in response to a National Crisis in which Dangerous Elements were discovered to be Attacking Our Liberties and must be Contained and Neutralized, and we must be patient during this Temporary Period of martial law.
Trump couldn’t gin up such a National Crisis on his own. That’s why I mentioned the bit about the necessity of those already at the top of the power structure deciding they could work with Trump and that their own interests would prosper in a more authoritarian USA. But the mechanics of it all would be fairly straightforward. You just need a few bombs and a few dead, framed ______ (Muslims, Leftists,…whatever) to declare part of a Larger Conspiracy that must be put down with Stern Measures.
If your point is that he should have wholeheartedly backed Assad instead, continuing one of the most brutal dictatorships in the world, just like Trump would have done, then there’s nothing useful one can say to you.
Well, could be that audio tape of her saying she would essentially do everything in her power to overturn the Supreme Court’s ruling. That wouldn’t sit well with them no matter what her party was.
No, it doesn’t clearly indicate any such thing. I’ve gone to universities and community colleges, and I can name college graduates I wouldn’t let push a button. You’ll need something more substantial than that.
I’m afraid not. You didn’t like the fact that Trump actually draws support from a significant percentage of college graduates so you’ve been flailing around to try to find some other metric to discount that fact. You brought up the question of ‘wisdom’, I didn’t. And now you’re claiming college degrees don’t necessarily indicate intelligence. To that I say, “So what?”. The point is that Trump draws a significant percentage of support from people with college degrees and my cite backs that up. End of story.
USA created and armed Taliban. India created and armed LTTE. Countries make mistake. Its not unusual.
Assad is a secular, progressive person who is a far better leader than Obama. He is fighting for survival for all minorities and progressive people. Obama made a blunder in Syria.
the americans did not. they armed the anti-soviet warlords, some who ended up among the Talebans, some among the anti-Taleban.
This says all anyone needs to know about your information level and your judgement.
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who is a far better leader than Obama.
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Yes of course the sign of a good leader is one who takes peaceful civilian protests against extreme corruption, against political oppression and the lack of actual democracy and turns it into a civil war - by choice. This is the sign of an excellent leader clearly… It could not be imagined that an excellent leader who even in the interest of his Clan have found the compromise and a path to more political liberalality in 2011, rather than the desperate violent response of using the snipoers, the tanks and the bombers on civilians, driving even parts of his own army to revolt and take their weapons to the opposition…
What a great and insightful judgement, obviously the American president in facing political opposition should have armed party militias and attacked the opposition!
Assed is fighting for the survival of the Clan Assed. Sadly due to their gross corruption and decades policy of extreme violence - from the torture of political opponents to using the heavy artillery and bombs on civilian protestors - against any and all opposition - either inside the party Baath or generally, they have created a situation where it is the extremist factions who are now the alternative to them. This was deliberate of course.
The idea that the Clan Assed is “fighting” for others is ridiculous, laughable and requires active self-deception. The idea the Clan Assed is about “progessive” - I guess this is supposed to me the center left democratic values they mean here in the American context is even more ridiculous since of course they run and they ran a police state of unbounded corruption and political oppression. That they kept some façades of ‘secular’ values inherited from the Baath origins in soviet secularism is not a positive, it is one of the things that led to the discrediting of the idea of secularism in the region as the secularism was and is experienced as the anti-liberal oppressive dictatorship with some façade to fool the gullible.
The only person who made a blunder in the Syria is the clan Assed who rather than reacting to the peaceful anti-corruption protests of 2011, they launched a civil war that has destroyed the country.
Well, he’s secular. But I think he’s less interested in being progressive than wanting to stay alive.
As for being a better leader, I initially almost reported you for trolling, but after reflection I actually have to agree with you because he’s managed to not only survive but turn the Syrian situation around. The proof is in the pudding, as they say.
He may be a tinpot dictator, but he’s one who’s been tested and survived.
With all due respect, you guys do not understand how dangerous radical Islam is and with how much difficulty and smartness, leaders like Assad are tackling it. Obama made the situation worse. I don’t expect him to apologise because he is a politician. But if he is honest to himself, he will know how much damage he has done and how much blood shed could have been avoided if not for his policies.
The Assed clan are about the corrupt control of the assets of Syria. ‘Progressive’ has not a thing to do with them.
Better leader?
Did half of your own military mutiny against your president in reaction to him ordering peaceful civilian protestors killed?
The clan Assed created the disaster, and only barely hang on, in part due to their actual enabling of the DAESH that they let expand as part of their strategy to see their opposition be eaten by the takfiri radicals.
This is not good leadership, it is grotesquely incompetent leadership that only has barely saved itself by the accident of the emergence of the DAESH that they then have rode.
He was tested and lost control of almost all of his own country and military. He may yet be saved by the takfiris destroying the non extremist opposition, but this is almost accidental.
Yes all this comes down to your extreme religious hatreds and bigotries.
Calling Assed creating the opportunity for the DAESH smartness is quite laughable hypodrisy but your double langauge games are quite noticeable.
Unfortunately, truthseeker2 is again right, but not for the reasons you - or he - think. It’s all about power. One only has to look at the history of religious wars in the past 2000 years to see that it’s all about people using religion for power. The Protestant/Catholic conflicts, the Crusades, even the initial expansion of Islam itself. It’s little about religion and all about power.
Which brings us back to Trump: he wants the power.
Fantasy world nonsense. Thank Jeebus Obama kept us out of another dumb ground war that would have resulted in thousands of American deaths.
Assad murders his own people by the thousands, and Obama keeps us from dying by the thousands for nothing. It seems pretty easy to choose who is prefer to be in charge.
Are we talking about the same Assad? The one who used sarin nerve gas against civilians? (I don’t know if it’s been completely proven that Assad ordered the sarin attacks, but the chemical came from his stockpiles which were already in violation of international law.)
I’d append the ::boggle:: icon, but to do this quote justice I’d need an animated gif with eyes popping out, whacking own head with hammer.
his power comes out of his truthfulness, morals and character. Just watch his interviews to understand what he stands for. Otherwise he doesn’t stand a chance against rebels, Isis, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the US despite being frm a minority group in his country.
Are we talking about the same Assad? The one who used sarin nerve gas against civilians? (I don’t know if it’s been completely proven that Assad ordered the sarin attacks, but the chemical came from his stockpiles which were already in violation of international law.)