I see your point-- let them twist publicly in the wind while eating their words, eh? (Excuse the mixed metaphor.) OTOH why give them any more air time? It’s not like most of us can’t figure out what they likely said. Is it really newsworthy to repeat garden-variety insults and slurs?
I hate euphemisms when they actually mask truth-- like calling trump’s lies “mistakes,” “misstatements,” etc. They’re LIES. Period. But I don’t see refraining to repeat “Joe Blow called Jack Sprat a $#%@&-%&$$, #%@-^%* during the meeting.”
Jesus Fucking Christ, now we’re risking WWIII because the Pentagon decided to play Poke the Crazy Person?
I thought he did it to have his own Osama Bin Laden moment and to show how he’s protecting America in his re-election bid. It was all just a game of Chicken. They were hoping he’d choose a less insane option. NEVER GIVE TRUMP AN INSANE OPTION. HE CAN’T TELL THE DIFFERENCE.
Why do these guys always sound the world’s most evil 12-year-old? This guy capped every bigoted, hateful, statement with multiple exclamation points. It was like reading a genocidal slam book by junior high schoolers.
IIRC that flag is raised every year, during Ashura, without any “declaration of jihad” being issued. Granted, now ain’t Ashura, so it’s certainly significant. But “a declaration of jihad”? That’s a new one.
On the one hand its a war crime, but on the other hand it will piss off multiculturalist liberals, so from a cost benefit analysis it’s clearly the right thing to do.
My theory is that Vlad has been pushing Donald to commit war crimes for months. Donald is so easy to manipulate! Just tell him ‘Obama was too much of a pussy to do these very manly things that only manly men with big hands (etc) can do.…’
If the US gets mired in resisting calls for Donald to appear in the ICC in The Hague, plus calls for the US to be declared a Rogue State, etc., then surely the sanctions against Russia will be allowed to slip away…
