All I ask of conservatives is that they pay attention. If the water downstream of coal mines becomes polluted sludge, if politicians say that tax cuts will pay for themselves but the deficit starts going up, if congressional district boundaries look like plates of spaghetti, if deregulation doesn’t make things better for anyone except business owners, if invading other countries doesn’t make the whole world love us, if sea levels really do start to rise and coastal flooding becomes a problem, be prepared to admit it. Pay attention, admit if those things happen, admit your part (however minor) in them happening, and learn from it.
I’m assured those things won’t happen under Trump; he has demonstrated several times that he’s no neoconservative warmonger and is more a of a realist foreign policy.
When?
When has he advocated regime changes or a use of force to spread american style democracy?
Either a troll or a plagiarizing immature child. If it’s the second, hopefully he’ll learn to take responsibility for his own actions, and stop deflecting blame from those he supports, before life teaches him some harsh lessons.
Poor try at nitpicking. WASP is just shorthand for a bunch of white guys who wish to impose their religion, racial bias and disdain for women on everyone else. Answer the question, Mr. Worldly.
Only one of the things I mentioned was about military intervention in foreign countries. Any comment on the others?
Furthermore, my list was not intended to be exhaustive. If abortion is outlawed and poor women start dying from back-alley abortions (the rich ones will travel someplace where it’s safe and legal), etc. Feel free to add to the list. I think you said in another thread that you considered the DJIA and unemployment numbers to be good measures of economic performance; if those start tanking during Trump’s term in office, will you stand up and admit that he didn’t make the economy great again?
And even furthermore, some of the things I mentioned will take longer than the next election cycle to show the full effects. My city won’t flood by 2020. I don’t know if anyone could balance the federal budget by 2020. But pay attention to the direction things are moving. I’m in this for the long haul. I remember in the '70s when it was common to make jokes about the smog in Los Angeles. I remember when you could expect one or two big plane crashes each year. The Cuyahoga River Fire and the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory were before my time, but I’ve heard of them. All these job-killing regulations that Republicans rail against were enacted to solve real problems. And guess what, a lot of them got solved.
There are other uses of war. Don’t limit your horizons. Or impose artificial conditions on possible answers.
Go into Iraq and take their oil? Iraq does have a government.
After Iran tested a missile, Flynn said that Iran was on notice. Sound rather threatening.
Besides, it’s only been 6 weeks. Is it really that impressive that he hasn’t started a war?
White guys did overwhelmingly vote for Trump in this election, yes. But that’s nothing new, they’ve been voting majority-Republican for decades; the GOP got 62% of the white male vote in the 1994 midterms, which some analysts attributed to disaffection with the extreme affirmative action policies espoused by some Democrats. I’m personally for affirmative action, but not the extreme racial quota version that some Democrats favor.
A politician can be a hawk against radical Islamist terrorism and still not be a warmonger. Some neocons have been calling for Assad’s head, saying there should be regime change. Trump wisely has rebuffed such an idea, and instead is going to focus on the real threat: ISIS. In fact, his administration just ordered 400 more troops over there to aid Syria in the fight against those anti-American Islamists.
Trump knows what to do. He’s not going to have a do-nothing policy on Syria, which Obama did, which will forever taint his legacy. There are hundreds of thousands of civilians dead in Syria, a good number who were children.
I haven’t seen any pro-life Christian conservatives trying to convert people to Christianity, by the way, so the notion that Republicans want to “impose their religion” on anyone is rubbish.
One of Obama’s best decisions was staying out of Syria, and presiding over near-zero American military deaths. If Trump gets us further involved he’s going to get more Americans killed, very possibly friends of mine that I served with (I finished my term and I’m out now, so no risk to me). Trump’s impatience and lack of seriousness has already gotten one serviceman killed. How many American deaths would it take for you to start to be concerned?
Or are you just another gutless coward who is happy to risk the lives of other Americans as long as there’s no risk to yourself?
ISIS has been losing ground since 2015.
Trump does not know what to do. He asked “his generals”(the ones reduced to rubble, the ones he knew more about ISIS than they did) for a plan.
Despite claiming he had a plan that was guaranteed.
You truly are deluded. Trump doesn’t actually have a foreign policy beyond what he thinks at the moment.
Idiot. People don’t have to require you to convert to their religion to impose it, they merely have to require you to adhere to its dictates. If blue laws require all stores to close on Sunday because it is a Christian day of rest (but not for Jews, Muslims, or atheists) then Christians have imposed their religious strictures on everyone.
He was probably joking then.
Despite the fact that joking about war isn’t funny, I hope he truly didn’t have a plan because if he did, he’s responsible for thousands of deaths.
I feel pretty confident saying Trump had no plan beyond something like 1) drop more bombs until we 2) win.
I have it on the highest authority (an honour student, doncha know!) that when Trump says something proving he’s an idiot, he’s joking.
The hundreds of thousands of dead Syrians due to Obama’s inaction would readily disagree with that bizarre statement, and so would some Democrats even in Mr. Obama’s own party, such as Sen. Chris Murphy. Obama’s “red line” policy on Syria cannot reasonably be seen by any neutral observer as having been successful.
Wrong again, my friend. It was meticulously planned for months by the military under the Obama administration, under some of the most respected generals there was, and was already approved by the unimpeachable Secretary of Defense James Mattis when Trump decided to sign off on it. There was no display of “impatience” in Trump’s authorization of the raid, to say there was is just a falsehood. It’s not like he just got up one morning from the Oval Office, drank a beer, and decided he was going to approve a very serious raid in Yemen on al-Qaeda operatives for fun; the raid was one that was, again, months-long planned.
And yes, I have sources:
1.)The New York Times, Feb 1. 2017:“months of detailed planning”
2.)CNN, Feb 2. 2017:“Both defense and Obama administration officials said the operation was never vetoed by Obama and that “operational reasons” were why it was pushed back after January 20 and why Obama left the task of authorizing the raid to his successor.”
So, there goes your absurd assertions.
Not tons. Maybe grams. He did totally hijack that other thread, which is why I started this one. After a while I started seeing his name as “hijack” just moderately MUNGed.
How do you know Secretary Mattis is “unimpeachable”? You have a worrying amount of faith in this administration.
Think back to when you were ten or eleven, and how conservatives made fun of Democrats for thinking Obama was some kind of savior. Think how embarrassing it is now to see parts of the GOP give the* Donald Trump administration *the benefit of every doubt–or maybe just no doubt. That’s absurd.