We have an administration that is now composed of bullies with their own paranoid ideas about others in world out to get us. They are the same group that got us into Iraq and now we are fighting real terrorists all around the world with no increased commerce to show for our bullying military tactics. The return on the military expenditures is very low. These same bullies have gutted the diplomatic core to the point that they cannot be effective even if we wanted them to.
After the war mongers get through destroying Korea, Iran and Japan, what are we going to do with the mess? Are we going to trade with them? Have commerce with them? Rule over them?
What is the military objective? What is the game plan? No one thought through the Iraq invasion and you can bet dollars to donuts that no one has thought through this upcoming military blunder.
We have no friends left in the world so where are we going to be? Just like djt, no lenders of repute to go to so you go the the lowest denominator--Putin.
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We are reliving the horrors of the presidency of George W. Bush. I believed then that we would be at war with either Iran or North Korea. In a poem I wrote, I said that the next fight was George W's " ace up his sleeve". Donald Trump still carries the full Bush deck of cards.
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You know this government is in trouble when the one peace-lover left standing, the one top authority who knows and fears the costs of war, is the person in charge of waging it. Defense Secretary James Mattis believes in patience and diplomacy, is well-schooled in political history, and marks every word because he knows how they'll be perceived abroad. I don't agree with a lot about him, but it's clear he's the least hawkish of the bunch. It's also clear we cling from this moment forward to the edge of a precipice and can only imagine the many kinds of ugly below should we slip.
Does the ascension of Mr. Bolton to the lofty heights of National Security Advisor, and the elevation of Mike Pompeo to Secretary of State, make a Trump threat of military action against North Korea more credible? And if it does, will the North Koreans be swayed to give up their nuclear weapons? Most analysts seem to think that North Korea will only give up its missiles if the US leaves the Korean peninsula.
So we have a stalemate. The US can never agree to leave South Korea to the clutches of North Korea and North Korea will not give up its nuclear weapons so long as there is a chance the US will impose regime change by military action.
Only if the Korean dictator believes that the US will carry out a first strike potentially with nuclear weapons will he back down. Conversely, if Kim calls Trump's bluff on military action, the US will be exposed as militarily impotent on the Korean peninsula. And if the US actually conducts a military strike, it will likely cost thousands if not millions of lives, including the lives of our service members.
This entire negotiation is fraught with unintended consequences enough to make the Iraq war seem small in comparison. (And Iraq is still suffering from our mistakes.)
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The Trump foreign policy team is the Dream Team of foreign affairs. Never has there been a better time to be American. Thank you.
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"Aggressive" is one way to put it; "foolhardy" seems more appropriate to me. John Bolton's no-holds-barred support for the invasion of Iraq, and failure to acknowledge what a colossal mistake it was, should disqualify him from any consideration for national security advisor. But, just as with the selection of Lawrence Kudlow, whose economic prognostications have been so consistently wrong, since his views agree with the President's, he is the perfect man for the job.
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The Fox network, and Murdoch, are obvious and odious purveyors of misinformation, misrepresentations and outright lies, to the detriment of our society and our democracy. Fox -- and all of this misinformation, misrepresentations and outright lies they purvey -- are funded by ad purchases from major companies.
Can anyone point me to a list of the corporations that are the, say, 10 largest ad purchasers on Fox? And, not just on Fox "news," but Fox overall -- including sports. I want to boycott those 10 companies and encourage my friends to do the same, as a start.
Thanks for your help.
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Bolton has been around the rabble that attends the United Nations. He knows who we are dealing with. The Times does not.
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Declaring “country” on this planet is to immediately stress pacifist impulse. We in the United States know this all too well. Our “country” fought a bloody war with the British while at the same slowly beginning a full on genocide of native Americans culminating perhaps with President Andrew Jackson’s war crimes.
Another high point was Bush’s Iraq war which has seen upwards of 500,000 civilian deaths.
Is there such a thing as a “good” war? The answer is certainly no. In this light it is the mistakes that led to Hitler that need to be condemned more-so than the bloody war initiated to defeat him.
To me, that is what makes Trump’s aggressiveness so confusing. Trump is awful- on the deregulation of environmental regulation alone he deserves condemnation. Yet North Korea is a hideous player on the world stage. Bolton’s paranoia sadly has some merit in terms of these bad players.
And so, even though I am convinced a truly robust international diplomacy is the only way forward, I fear Bolton is a key component of this failed President’s Reichstag Fire. Dems will hopefully win the house if not the senate in November- then Trump and war cabinet will call Saddam’s (oops Kim Jong-Un) bluff.
And Americans won’t blink until the first Nuclear Strike.
Heaven help us.
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Donald Trump ran on the promise of no more wars of opportunity. Nevertheless, he has created a staff who feel all-war-all-the-time is the greatest thing since sliced bread. Just another of the lies that have become too numerous to keep count. No good will come of this.
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Cut Taxes: Start War: Tank Economy: Get Voted Out: Wait for Opposition Party to fix: Regain control by Criticizing Opposition Parties hard choices: Rinse: Repeat
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First and foremost Trump appointed this foreign policy team to get the day care center adults out of the White House. Trump is not a team player and this choice of advisers isn't going to change that. Mr. Pompeo has already proven that he is a simpering sycophant, putting Trump's name in every paragraph of his briefings and doling out massive levels of praise at every encounter. Trump loves it, and appointed him Sec. of State, but that doesn't mean Trump listens to Pompeo, it just means he eliminated a man who will disagree. So with Bolton.
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Hard-Line? That's a polite way of saying Bombs Away!
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Does anyone still believe the Veterans Day parade is really about celebrating veterans? Now that the moderate voices are being forced out of the Trump administration my guess is he will attempt to or actually turn that parade into a celebration of military force. We’ll know when he rides out in the first tank in full military dress wearing medals he never earned including the Purple Heart one of his sucker followers gave to him.
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We don't need no stinking diplomacy,
or badges.
Welcome to the riotocracy.
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It's a problem when you have a President that believes in nothing selecting diplomats that don't believe in diplomacy, lawyers that believe in conspiracy theories, and a National Security Advisor that doesn't believe even in retrospect that invading Iraq was a bad idea. Why do people who don't believe in government want to run it? To tear it down of course, but I don't think most voters want that. Three more years of it could leave us in a pretty bad place.
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Picture this:
US at war on the Korean peninsula, with no allies.
US at war in the Middle East with no Western allies
US engaged in a major trade war, with China calling-in its loans.
This is picture that hangs in Vladimir Putin's office....... a bankrupt USA.
Smarten-up Americans. Get rid of Putin's puppet in the White House before the American dream goes down the toilet.
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Diplomacy requires a strategy, thought and anticipation of repercussions. Those are not hallmarks of this Administration. What Trump has assembled now resembles his mindset. Shoot first and ask questions later.
Trump arbitrarily attempted a Muslim ban. He did it again with his transgender edict for the military. This activity has continued unabated up to just this week with his ad hoc decision to congratulate Putin on his election victory. Shoot first and perhaps ask questions later will alienate allies, jeopardize national security and rattle financial markets.
This president is now in his element and no one should expect anything other than more of what we have experienced in the past few weeks. Just keep in mind that he loves turmoil. Is anyone really ready for this?
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Can you imagine the USA's economic demise while trying to fight another war of choice in Iran, with no allies, AND at the same time engaged in a major trade war?
Well Putin can.
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Past administrations didn't want to deal with sharp end of the diplomatic stick. There was always a big media build up to diplomatic meetings and lots of sound bites peppered with "should", "need" and "work toward." After the celebratory dinner and a few photo ops everybody went back home and resumed the pose - setting on their hands. One dare not upset the delicate sensibilities of the Western Hemisphere. All the while Iran and North Korea have continued their march towards nuclearization. No one likes this, and we all know left unchecked will lead to conflict somewhere on down the line, but no one dislikes it enough to to something about it. It falls within the same category as global warming. The President has decided to take the Teddy Rosevelt approach, except that he's going to speak loudly and swing that big stick if that's what it takes to get his point across. The time for talking is over, it's time for some action.
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Americans Beware!
The Trump-Bolton team is laying the groundwork for yet another war of choice. Bit by bit you are being fed false news, with the help and encouragement of AIPAC and the Saudis, that demonizes Iran and falsely portrays it as an imminent threat to the so-called (and never defined) "American interests".
Remember the deceptions that led to the Iraq War, in which you lost much blood and treasure. Protect your sons and daughters from the evils now in Washington.
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Yes, you're right Greg. Now we should make like the French and give up.
Kurt. give up what?
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Yes, 'hard-line' 'hawkish' 'far right' nice words meaning: they want war.
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I'm just beside myself with anger. We've already been here and it was Jill Stein voters and jerks like Susan Sarandon, the most vocal "anti-war" people out there, who brought us BACK to an even more chaoticly pro-war White House than before.
I'm angry at Trump, Republicans, and Baby Boomers who blew off their anti-war idealism I hazily remember as a barely sentient young child for tax cuts, wars for oil, and lives of ease and luxury. But I save the most deep and boiling anger for those voters who said in these very comments sections there was no difference between Clinton and Trump.
You are wrong and even more proof of that, the most dangerous yet, has presented itself again today. I know it's not healthy and I keep trying to tear myself away from the daily diet of destruction I can't help consuming in these pages. But it's just possible I will never forgive you people for as long as I live.
You've wrecked my country. Gen-Xers were overwhelmed by the massive size and power of the Boomers. I graduated high school in the 80s ready to join the progressive fights I witnessed in my childhood only to discover crickets in the streets and the coke-fueled go-go 80s in full swing. I showed up in DC for the '89 pro-choice march, voted Democratic every single election, pragmatically supported candidates and causes best able to advance progressive goals in the real world of rightward shift and Republican skullduggery. Yet, here we are again!
I'm literally crying right now...
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left coast finch, Not all of us Baby Boomers are sell-outs though I can understand your frustration. I too am frustrated by some friends and my own siblings for being sell-outs (one of whom is a Gen-Xer). I believe Jill Stein meant to split the vote. She attended the same dinner and sat at the same table with Flynn and Putin. I recall she also received Russian loans. She hasn’t been heard of politically since the election.
Sarah Silverman got reamed for calling out Sarandon and other Bernie supporters. She was right, small luxury now. After the Al Gore debacle people like Susan Sarandon should have known better.
However, your Gen-X generation let yourselves down. You shouldn’t have counted on the previous generation to carry you. Instead if you didn’t like how the Boomers were handling things your generation should have forged your own path. Perhaps you can step up and be that voice?
Most of us Bernie supporters are dismayed that the Democratic Party has recently become Republican Lite. We would prefer they start moving back in the direction of FDR.
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Bolton. Another mini-man with a need to play the bully, the peacocking bully.
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I am absolutely terrified now!
I've already lived through one era of war and recession, now it's going to repeat itself again!?
I'm so close to having a nervous breakdown at this point. We're all going to get killed! WWIII now looks more likely to occur. Somebody, please, stop this madness!
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I actually knew a person who worked closely with Mr. Bolton. Here is his assessment.
1. He is very loyal to his boss and will fight for a policy that is given to him without ever expressing any concerns - you hire Bolton to implement a policy not to create one.
2. It is true that what he expresses in talk shows is just empty rhetoric which he will not stand by as he is loyal to his boss's policy.
3. He has fiery temper and often explodes on his personal staff.
4. He is honest and principled to a large extent
Bolton is a buffoon,all Bluster. The United States does not have the capabilities to fight in North Korea, especially with the Chinese or in Iran in the Middle East.
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Bolton appears to be Mercer-financed--what is their angle on this warmongering? I thought they were libertarian and therefore isolationists?
Follow the money, always!
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Mr. Trump has realized that in order to salvage his electability, he must start a war: a tried and true strategy for previous administrations.
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In an attempt to be fair, it is what the President thinks and does not what JB says. That said for all the folks who actually bought into (and are still promoting) what Donny said during the campaign about Iraq being a bad war and we never should have gone there, etc. Let me be clear: We are going to war with Iran and/or North Korea before the midterms. It may not be full battle field engagement but the Iran nuclear deal is done. There will be bombing of facilities in Iran, drone strikes, military build up at their borders and their coastlines, cyber strikes, etc. For North Korea it will be much the same. In spite of the efforts of our allies. Trump must be seen as a leader and he cannot do this (in his mind) without guns and bombs. He has painted himself into a corner on this and is now bringing in folks who believe what he truly believes. If you think we spent too much 'treasure and blood' in Afghanistan and Iraq - in the words of BTO "you ain't seen nothin' yet"
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The man in the White House is akin to a child having a tantrum, and tossing all his toys from the pram, willing to destroy everything around him to get what he, and only he, wants. In Trump's case that is survival without jail time. And if he has to start wars on two fronts, he will do it because a man without empathy has nothing to lose, and everything to gain, for doing it.
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Bolton may be "hard line", but he is not a leader with any leadership abilities. And first year cadet at West Point has a better understanding of how to lead men...........
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What's the problem? Iranians and North Koreans will welcome our troops with open arms and rose bouquets. And then they'll let us run their oil business for them. The whole thing will pay for itself. Just like Iraq!
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Destroy America, this is what Putin has ordered.
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You win the Internets for today's biggest understatement.
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So nobody can see the forest through the trees.
We will cause numerous international problems, maybe even a war because we have the most incompetent administration ever.
Look out world here comes Donny and team.
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It still amazes me that the people who risk nothing are the one that talk the loudest about war. The days appear to be gone when we had leaders that actually experienced combat making decisions that affect our sons and daughters. Let's stop electing politicians and start electing leaders again.
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The time seems ripe for a military coup, to bring some sanity back and to undertake urgent domestic tasks that, if left untended, will weaken and divide the United States to an intolerable degree.
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If the Korean peninsula isn't a radioactive wasteland by the end of the year--and that assumes no US cities are destroyed--I will be surprised. And I wish exaggerating. With Trump, the absolute worst you can imagine has a good chance of becoming reality.
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Instead of being totally discredited for their lies and calamitous misadventure in Iraq, the zombie neocons are on the rise again. This is seriously bad.
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Just think... these guys will be the ones that sign our unconditional surrender when we lose Failing 45's ego war.
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You know its deep when someone who's nickname is 'Mad Dog' is seen as the restrained one.
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As Sec. Mattis once said, if you cut out diplomacy and (my words) neuter the State Dept, I'll need a lot more ammo.
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Bolton is just what the trump white house needs - another psychopath bent on leading the US into a war (haven't had a real one in a long time - right?), with a prospect of augmenting death and misery in the world, in the name of gun-slinging, bible-toting US 'democracy'. Thanks a lot.
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And all just to keep 3/10 people in this country from feeling persecuted despite their racial, ethnic, and gender good fortune.
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Don't forget their religion. This is all about white evangelical Christianity's unstoppable demographic demise. If they think their unfailing support for this blatantly immoral, bankrupt, and murderous regime is going to not only bring the people "back to god" but somehow restore their cultural power, they're sorely and disastrously mistaken. The damage done to Christianity will be deep, lasting, and, I hope, permanent.
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Disappointing for anyone who hoped for an end to pointless foreign wars.
It’s interesting that most commentors here despise Donald Trump equally regardless of which direction he takes. Make friends with Russia? The man is an idiot. Step up tensions with Iran or North Korea? The man is...still an idiot.
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The hawkish foreign policy team is terrifying, not merely because of their views but because the President's childish and ignorant tendencies are to "hit back 10 times harder", to fight back rather than talk. Trump has surrounded himself with people who will strengthen and aggravate his aggressive fighting tendencies rather offer options.
None of Trump's recent advisers are catastrophes in themselves, but with Trump it is utterly terrifying. We can only hope that there are heroic leaders in the military that will leak calamitous plans to Congress before Trump has an opportunity to implement them.
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---The shift that the article points out- from having relatively moderate, thoughtful men like Tillerson and McMaster leading the State department, and, as national security advisor- to the so-called "conservative clique" that Bolton and Pompeo will be, is an indication that trump is going extreme, trying to advance his increasingly questionable, and perhaps hazardous, agenda. The force-first mentality they seem to embody flies in the face of achieving any degree of true statesmanship, instead relying on tactics more closely aligned with bullying and intimidation. That Bolton speaks so casually about preemptive strikes, which could easily lead to conflagration that might make our 15 + year involvement in Iraq look like a minor conflict, is beyond alarming. The fact that the president doesn't seem to fathom the extent of the consequences of such cavalier non-diplomacy is simply more reason to hope Mr. Mueller is getting closer to the real substance of his investigation.
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In the world of conspiracy theories, there's one that hasn't been tested. I'm going to test it here. The media has been writing about how the president is filling the halls with news personalities. I have a different theory.
Fox News is a front for Russian media aggression. Where else could some of the most violent ideas be propagated under the guise of "American News?"
Murdoch's ties to Russia have long been the subject of investigations and now, it seems that we are at a critical juncture.
The media is writing about how the Fox News Corp is now in the White House. Perhaps the real story is Russia is now in the White House disguised as Fox News Corp.
Laugh. But do the math.
...Murdoch + trump.
...Murdoch + Russia.
...Murdoch + Fox News
...trump + Russia.
...trump + Fox News
Add up to: Russia In the White House. Laugh.
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This is shades of Dr. Strangelove! If there is a fast-track impeachment process it's time to roll it out.
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A key problem with the current mind set of this president is that he nor his newly appointees believe in diplomacy for they view that option of interaction as weak and counterproductive.
I wasn't always happy nor pleased with many of the decisions and policies Obama made when president, but never ONCE did I ever remotely feel fear or anxiety on an international level for a New York minutes while he was in office.
This week and this presidency continues to get darker and bleaker by the moment. Mr. Mueller, could you and your team work a little faster please? No pressure, but please crank up the speed a tad. Sincerely, thank you.
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Trump's foreign policy: talk loudly and hit everyone with a big stick.
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Diplomacy doesn't work against dictators.
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Bolton, whose views on relationships with dangerous dictatorships are equally dangerous, reflects Donald's tragic lack of understanding of international relationships and diplomacy. Better to have someone totally inept like Jared running around the middle east getting nowhere except with Kushner Companies business than Bolton, a Stalinist with a videogame mentality who thrives on thoughts of aggression and violence.
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This new national security team seems less interested in American security than they are in American dominance. The idea that Bolton continues to see the Iraq war as “justified” simply means that in his eyes wars of aggression are legal. Wars to continue dominance are legal and wars simply to demonstrate American power over a region are legal.
These moves make congress’s failure to reign in the war in Yemen all the more ominous. We now have an administration with few if any checks and a team willing to operate beyond even those extreamly loose boundaries.
The founders recognized the danger of having the power to initiate a war left only in the hands of the president. And this danger has only been apllified by presence of American combat troops literally all over the globe. But our members of Congress seem ignorant to this fact. Let’s hope that they regain their senses before it’s too late.
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In the famous words of Franklin Delano Roosevelt on the day, during WWII, when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, "We have nothing to fear but fear itself".
The Con Don and his Robber Baron brethren want us to be afraid.
Fear is what caused some European leaders to try to appease Hitler and make deals with him to try to protect their citizens - and jobs. Fear is what caused people to sit by and do nothing as the nazis rounded up Jewish people and other "undesirables" and exterminated them. Fear-anger-hate is what motivated the deplorable people who became bully, killing nazis.
WE THE PEOPLE can stop The Con Don and his Robber Baron brethren around the world who want to start WW3. They are few. WE are many.
It is time to storm OUR bastille - OUR white house, U.S. House of Representatives and Senate - and put these America-destroying traitors and their operatives under citizen arrest.
It is time for politicians, lawyers, consultants, press, television talking heads and other who do not agree with the current state of affairs to speak out and call for action.
NOW. There may never be another time.
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So. We'll be going to war somewhere else soon. Perhaps somewhere elseS.
Have to wonder. At what point do our enemies -- and we're getting awfully good at making them, or at least preserving their status as such -- decide to put the differences among them aside and coalesce around what'll appear to be their best collective move: dealing with us as we tend to deal with others?
DFT is so intent on shaking things up. I fear that it's working.
"Welcome to the beginning of the end."
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Another chicken hawk to lead from well behind the actual fighting. More bone spurs in charge.
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I'll return my Gay Bunny book if Mike Pence invokes the 26th. Honestly terrifying. No idea what to do.
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Pence will be happy to start another war while he also kills people here at home with pollution, a lack of access to health care etc.
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Amanda M. and DR, Mike Pence is no doubt giddy over the possibility of starting an end-of-days war. It’s what many Christian fundamentalists here in Tennessee pray for...
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
-– Edmund Burke 1795.
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Trump is a bully and thrives on this type of behavior.
He believes the way to get concessions form other
countries is to bully them. Pompeo and Bolton will join
him in the chorus. We should be ready for more bluster
and bombast from the trio. On Iran deal it could rupture
the alliance with Europeans. They oppose the abrogation
of the deal. China and Russia won't support the withdrawal
either. USA will be alone and it won't affect Iran. It
will be a case of Trump cutting his nose to spite Iran's
face.
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Confusing! Should the U.S. be more diplomatic with Russia? The NYT seems to
take that position.
Amazing! Are there only big “yes/no” buttons painted in bright primary button? Some NYT readers seem to think the world works that way.
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It is very likely that General Mattis will be fired and a "war hawk" will be put in his place during this Congressional Easter recess. By choosing Mattis replacement during the recess the individual will not face Senate approval and automatically becomes Secretary of Defense. Dowd's quitting, Tillerson's firing and Bolton's hiring, Easter recess.. all the chess pieces are in position for a preemptive strike on N. Korea and/or Iran. The Senate goes into recess today and the House is all ready out. They all have to be aware. OMG.
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John Boltin is certifiable. What sane person would advocate a preemptive strike against a country with nuclear weapons, a border with a US ally, which is host to hundreds of thousands of US troops?
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It's pretty obvious at this point. This isn't obstruction in the White House, it's a 5th column.
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TWO draft dodging old fools with dreams of military glory. Trump fans: Be sure to send YOUR children or grandchildren off to Die, for Trumps re-election Campaign. Totally worth it, Right ?????
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Americans refused to hold the neocons responsible for their crimes. They deserve John Bolton.
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Rich men to soon be sending the working class kids to fight more wars. Will Trump's supporters in West Virginia and Kentucky continue to cheer his Elmer Gantry routine after their own sons and daughters are being fed into a meat grinder for the upcoming Iran and N Korea wars?
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The history of diplomacy has ended in wars. Bad actors, such as North Korea, China, Iran love diplomacy because it shows weakness. While we are talking they are continuing the road to their goals. Nobody wanted to stand up to Hitler and the infamous Chamberlain was the worst example of cowardice. Obama's infamous red line to Syria made him the laughingstock of the world.
The world is a stage and there are bad guys who want to do us harm. They will now understand that there will be a price. Put America first, speak softy but carry a big stick. That should be our foreign policy.
I wish we had a mandatory draft, again. Then, everyone will have SKIN IN THE GAME.
Right now, it's too easy to sit in your warm living-room, drinking your favorite beverage, dining out at your favorite restaurant, driving your favorite car, while sending everyone else's kid to fight and die.
It's one EARTH with limited boundaries: we can't go anyplace else. No one wants the millions of refugees created by war - and the US is directly responsible for creating millions of refugees, not thousands, millions. But wars continue because of the big-stick foreign policy.
Let me know when YOU invite a refugee family to live with you because that big stick foreign policy is working so well!
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“It’s always darkest right before everything goes black”
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The President from KAOS is getting his war team in place. Nothing like a good war to help the autocracy along. Maybe Trump wants to meet with Putin to see if he can get some pointers on how to proceed.
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With all these aged blowhards wanting to bomb, bomb, bomb, nuke, nuke, nuke let's hope they that the fight among themselves for who gets to push the button will allow enough time for someone to sprint far, far away with it.
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Bolton: "a pre-emptive strike against North Korea... would be a “perfectly legitimate” response to what he views as an imminent threat."
Evidently, the REAL imminent threat is the USA, not the little country whose total land mass is less than that of Illinois.
When the US is "at war," we have always reelected the sitting president. trump wants a war. trump wants a second term. trump wants to follow in the political footsteps of Xi Jinping: to remain in power for life.
It's official. I'm afraid.
I'm afraid of GOP silence and inaction.
I'm afraid of an authoritarian narcissistic man who wants to rule by unilateral decree. And his accomplices, the GOP.
I'm afraid of the trump base who fail to see the dangers of this administration.
I'm afraid of Russia pouncing on North Korea to "help" trump.
I'm afraid.
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I am also afraid with Trump and his ilk in the White House that we will see Neo- Nazis and White Supremacists come out of the shadows and hate crimes will be on the rise. Indeed the silence of the GOP is deafening and this silence and inaction makes them complicit in the destruction of this democratic Republic.
I am afraid things in the US will get much worse.
I am afraid with Trump choosing Bolton as NSA this duo may get us into a war with North Korea and as a consequence into a nuclear third world war.
The destruction will be unimaginable and something of the like we have never
seen before.
I am afraid Trump, his Cabinet and his ilk are in over their heads.
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Upstate New York - What you fear has already come to pass. Hate crimes are on the rise.
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All the attention is being paid to an ignorant clueless, bombastic, sorry excuse for a human being and what he will do. What doesn't get covered is how the leaders and their advisers of the countries threatened will react. It's scary when one has to rely on Kim and a bunch of mullahs to act rationally.
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All the talk of background checks to identify crazed homicidal maniacs to prevent them from buying guns. Here in plain view with as much knowledge about them that is available nothing will prevent them--Trump, Bolton, Pompeo-- from getting their murderous, torture-loving hands on the most lethal weapons imaginable.
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Get ready for perpetual war. North Korea will not be touched since China is going to make moves along the border and South Korea may actually think their citizens are far safer dealing with North Korea than the nut cases in the WH. Iran is likely to be the first victim since the oil state Arabs will gladly oblige.
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An administration of bullies is not good for our country. This is not TV where there are do overs. Young men should get ready for the draft as this administration escalates aggression throughout the world since there are not enough volunteers to meet the needs of the hawks.
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The darkest aspect of this is that these appointments don't represent a rational approach to foreign policy. They are the expressions of a child endowed with the presidency playing publicity games with its powers, with the American people, with the whole world. He enjoys the power to shock, to stupefy, to command the alarm and emotions of untold millions of people. If these appointments lead to catastrophic wars or other conflicts like a cyber-attack on our whole economy, the responsibility will lie upon those of us who kept our silence, upon the whole political apparatus in Washington that acts as though its primary role is not to take responsibility to remove this man Trump from office but to stand by and be spectators of the process they were elected to manage. I'm a Christian, but the theologians I read say that only fools do not recognize that irresponsibility is death.
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Once all the seasoned military have left the administration, only the chicken hawks will be left. They have never been shot at, and therefore haven't a clue about the effect of sending yet more young men, excluding (of course) their offspring, overseas to be destroyed. For what? Perhaps you can answer this. I can't.
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Your headline
"New Trump Foreign Policy Team Isn’t Big on Diplomacy"
Bit of an understatement? No?
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Here's an idea. Why don't we bring in one of those who supported and orchestrated the Iraq War (universally acknowledged as one of the worst foreign policy disasters in U.S. history) who is advocating for pre-emptive military action against an unstable nuclear power. And just to add some icing to the cake why don't you appoint a Secretary of State who is trained at war and has absolutely no inclination to exercise diplomacy as a solution to the world's problems. What could go wrong?
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Is war the remedy sought by the ego of a president in response to the threat created by the revelation of all kinds of past secrets that boosted it? And republicans will still tolerate it instead of removing him?
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All I can say is thank God I never had children. What a warmongering administration Trump is assembling. I fear for the future my niece and nephew face. I remember clearly the Cold War with Russia, I’m more terrified now than I ever was back then. God help us all. We are truly living a bad parody of Dr. Strangelove.
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By appointing Bolten a hard liner, Trump is sending a strong message to the rogue regimes of the world "don't mess with the USA" Reminds me of the message on the Texas license plates "Don't mess with Texas" I am not a fan of Bolten and his history in the Bush administration but as president he can get the cabinet and the advisers he wants. We the people will judge him by the results.
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I can't remember if the last war the US won was it Panama or Grenada?
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He didn't disclose his taxes.
He didn't divest.
He is not the president.
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Judge him by the results. These are hundreds of thousands of lives at risk. Giving him a bad review will not bring those people back, we judged bush but that didn't revive the 100s of thousands who died in Iraq.
Why are we so ok with the US killing foreign civilians without impunity?
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Trump must have gotten that secret back channel to Russia in operation. Every action of Trump seems to fulfill Putin's dream of bringing down the U.S. and dismantling western alliances.
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Bolton will certainly add to the chaos, which defines the Trump presidency, and will bring us closer to another costly war.
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Bolton's appointment brings us another step closer to the autocracy of Trump's dreams.
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“The last time there was this conservative a clique around the president was 15 years ago, when Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld pressed President George W. Bush to invade Iraq.”
Republicans all. The Conservative coalitions within this Party are bent on our destruction. Between sapping the financial strength, or what is left, of the middle class and others while doing massive wealth transfer to the wealthy and war mongering rhetoric internationally with Iran and No. Korea, we the people, are defenseless in the middle.
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This administration is moving further to the right every day. With every firing of a reasonable conservative, a new paranoid conspiracy theorist makes their way into the highest ranks of our government. Serious talk of a pre-emptive strike against North Korea? Suddenly I’m not as concerned about climate change. Mueller and November: Please hurry.
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Great - add the co-architect of the greatest US strategic debacle of the 20th century, the effects of which still convulse the Middle East. One Iraq is more than enough damage for any man's lifetime.
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It wouldn't be surprising if the 45th picked Bolton solely to kick up the chaos a notch. Apparently Kelly and Mattis were not too keen. Anything to keep Trump TV top billing and prevent reality from getting a word in.
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"New Trump Foreign Policy Team Isn’t Big on Diplomacy"?
A terrifying statement--and a true one!
Trump -- and his while gang of thugs -- should be removed from office as a "clear and present danger" for this reason alone!
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He is a president who grew up in wartime, yet avoided service. He has no experience of anything other than a romantic view of conflict. For someone who has avoided it all for himself (and delighted in letting us know the hardest part of his "fight" was to avoid sexually transmitted disease), he is surrounding himself with advisers whose first thought is force. I fervently hope this is not another moment where our youth are sacrificed to a vision of old men that is, at best, remarkably unwise.
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Welcome Ambassador Bolton, you expertise is just what we need in this time of uncertainty!!
Sure, because the war in Iraq has been so successful.
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The cabinet that Mr. Trump has accumulated around him is not necessarily for a Diplomatic stunt, but it surely resembles a War Cabinet. He just wants to start another war so that he can avoid being subpoenaed by Mueller in the name of National Emergency. The Republican leadership and the VP Pence crowd is already backing whatever Mr. Trump wants to do.
This team of Bolton/Pompeo is not there to advise the President re Foreign Policy but to carry out the orders from the Reality TV lead star. These two have no idea what it would take to fight any war let alone one with DPRK or with Iran. It is very easy to start a war but the unintended consequences would again keep haunting our future generations. As long as we do not have any consequences for the individual’s actions, they all will try whatever they wish. It is pathetic that the US Congress has already abrogated their prerogative of Declaration of War. The Republicans are happy by the bravado that comes with fighting as use of Brawn is easier than using Brain. I just hope that the only adult left in the room Mad Dog Mattis would just won’t let them do it.
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I wonder what The Con Don's "supporters" think about this? Are they cheering as they watch their fox so-called news people taking over OUR government? Who's next - Alex Jones?
I simply cannot believe there were enough stupid, uninformed, brain-washed people to create this mess. I cannot believe it was simply because they would not vote for the most qualified candidate to ever run to be president of OUR United States - Ms. Hillary Rodham Clinton - because she is a woman.
It was a mistake. Socially Conscious Women are stepping up to take one-half the power in OUR United States of America - and around the world - to put and end to the constant war these bullies want. Meantime, those of every single American who values a civil society and stability had better take every opportunity to protest, resist, persist, march, VOTE to have the kind of country - and leaders - WE want.
It is not The Con Don, Sarah Palin, John Bolton, Sean Hannity, princess trump, Laura Ingraham, Betsy DeVos or Mitch McConnell and his wife. They are a pox on OUR country.
Join hundreds of thousands of Americans and people around the world for "March for Our Lives" tomorrow. The Con Don is scared to death of it.
Find a march/demonstration near you at the link below:
https://event.marchforourlives.com/event/march-our-lives-events/search/
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We are reaching a point where we have nothing but hawks - hawks who have never worn a uniform, experienced the horrors of war, and who seem to regard the prospect of real war like gamers in virtual reality.
During Vietnam, those opposed to that war regarded military leaders as dangerous because they were inclined to see the world in combat terms - - Now they are being kicked out of the administration because they are too careful, too concerned with the aftermath of misjudgments expressed in missiles and bombs.
We have a group who conflate acting tough and threatening other people with strength: fake toughs armed with real weaponry. And n Putin - we have a Russian leader with no experience of the hardships of WWII ( which I believe kept them from initiating a 3rd WW) - and in N. Korea, a leader who exposes his own countrymen to famine, but who also never experienced war first hand.
All together they make for a dangerous bunch of poseurs. They all continually have something to prove - and would rather start a war than lose face.
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Yet another white male dinosaur from another epoch with stale ideas not in tune with today’s reality. Where do they keep digging up all these guys?
If we can’t legally enact mandatory euthanasia ala Logan’s Run, can we at least establish maximal age and minimal competency limits for holding office?
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Sadly, I often think of "Logan's Run" when I look at the big problems facing the world - overpopulation, environmental destruction, climate change, dwindling fresh water, etc. It will come to pass, it surely seems, the only question is when. With bean counters running our country and money and power the only values of the ruling class, it may not be too far off.
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I was thinking more of the LSD camps in Wild in the Streets, you know, anyone over 30. Of course, I’m in my mid-60s and mandatory euthanasia was not exactly what I had in mind when I signed up for Social Security and Medicare, so there’s that, T. Rivers.
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North Korea, an impoverished pipsqueak with a ruling family concerned mainly with self-preservation, is an "imminent threat" to the mighty United States? If that's true, then I'd like a refund of the untold trillions of dollars we've poured into our military capabilities in the last 50 years.
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Another reason the Democrats must take control of the House and Senate next November. They can stop Trump and his bomb throwing crew from getting us into another senseless war.
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Except for the mustache, Bolton passed Trump's screen test. Nobody comes to the President's show without first proven he can improve ratings. What they think does not matter, it's all about ratings.
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It will be too late!
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Elected in November and seated in January. Whew Ron!
Suddenly, that seems a long ways off. This guy and his war cabinet can do a lot of damage between now and then.
I believe they will move fast specifically because they want to hedge bets in case there is a turn-over in the House and Senate. And THAT frightens me most.
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For a man who railed against "stupid wars" on the campaign, Trump has no surrounded himself with the most hawkish crowd in recent memory. The question is - does Trump even knows what Bolton's past comments have been, or did he hire him because "he talks tough" on Fox News?
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And you believed him?
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In the face of such growing insanity, when is the American people going to wake up and take to the streets?
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Well there will be plenty of young people “in the streets” this weekend protesting protesting the government’s idiotic policies on gun (non) controls. Meanwhile, most of us boomers who used to attend “peace” rallies back on the 60s and 70s will be peacefully napping.
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Tomorrow in Washington. Young people learning to be leaders.
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So much now seems to depend on the upcoming elections in November. How will Republican leadership in the House and Senate react to significant Democratic victories if they occur?
Bolton's appointment along with Pompeo's suggests that where both foreign and domestic policy is concerned, the White House no longer feels it has to listen to or consult with Republican congressional leadership. The message is the same to them as to our allies: "Get in line or get lost."
What will McConnell and Ryan and those who have lined up behind them do if the short-term gains of bolstering and enabling Trump turn out to no longer be gains at all?
Is it wrong to suggest at this point that, hypothetically at least, Trump is irrelevant. That it is only his capacity to compound his mistakes in the next seven months that makes him significant?
I've been reading Ron Chernow's brilliant and incisively written biography of U.S. Grant and his description of the Andrew Johnson's administration following Lincoln's assassination and the conclusion of the Civil War seems oddly resonant, even prescient.
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So maybe the good news is we won’t have to worry about the stock market and having enough money for retirement if this new team gets us all killed.
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Everyone got panicked when weapons of MASS destruction were supposedly discover in Iraq.
A panic attack can easily flare up into a military attack, so blatantly manipulative and literally, senseless.
George Bush was "misinformed". Ignorance has never been an excuse especially when so many good men and women die.
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Hard line? Try hard headed. The absolute worst choice possible. Bolton is to "Security" what Trump is to Presidenting. A rolling dumpster fire, with nukes. This is no longer amusing or even entertaining.
November: VOTE like your life depends upon it. It DOES.
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John Bolton is one of the reasons you have a crisis with North Korea. He, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld did everything to undermine the agreement entered into by the Clinton Administration and North Korea in 1994. They ensured that the US would be on a collision course with North Korea. Had they not undermined the agreement and steered the country in the opposite direction, you could be living in a world right now where North Korea doesn't have long-range missiles or nuclear capability. However, thanks to people like John Bolton you are now staring into the nuclear abyss.
Everyone needs to understand the history of North Korea, otherwise, Trump's lies that his predecessors caused this crisis go unchallenged. Trump's method lying, his true motto is summed up with this phrase he told to Billy Bush when Billy Bush challenged him in private about his apprentice ratings:
"Billy, look, you just tell them and they believe it. That's it: you just tell them and they believe. They just do."
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/43048-how-cheney-and-his-allies-creat...
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In time bolton will be fired, shortly after the planet and the rest of us explodes. On fire, we're fired.
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Trump administration does not seem to need diplomacy or even the state Department. Trump himself and his son-in-law seem to be the one who think they are more than sufficient to run the show. Moreover, US foreign policy is more like Trump organization- geared to increase its business and profits.
Just yesterday many news channels reported that Saudi Crown Prince, who is now de-facto king, boasted of "having Jared Kushner in his pocket".
Even worse, it seems that highly classified American presidential intelligence/security briefings are shared with Saudi Prince (and probably others too), allegedly by Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner. Not known yet who authorised this 'serious leak' - President himself or someone else.
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While Gen. Mattis may be a "lonely view" in the confines of a group of sycophants and troubled mind sets, he represents a rational man with many years of on the job experience. Would Congress stand up to support him? Are there enough politicians on both sides of the aisle who realize that what is at stake is future of our country. I'm sure that the folks at the Pentagon would definitely rally around one of their own. The US hasn't yet arrived at the stage of 1 man rule. Has it?
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One of the beautiful things about watching Iran's progress since the late 70s is the historical lesson that extremist regimes never hold power for very long. They are not completely free of hardliners, but they are moving in the right direction towards moderacy, stability and balance.
A major step in that direction was the signing of the Iran deal several years ago, which demonstrated to many Iranians that working in good faith with the rest of the world is always going to be the better path.
Hopefully the USA is able to stem the sudden rise of hardliners in our Executive Branch and rein in this know-nothing, feckless, so-called president before he completely destroys whatever good faith the rest of the world still has in us.
Hillary Clinton was considered a great Secretary of State (until the mud started flying in 2012) because of her tireless efforts to rebuild all the bridges that W and Cheney burned.
If Amendment 25 or Robert Mueller don't intervene soon and stop the charade in the White House, then I fear a number of bridges may be beyond repair.
My hope is that the rest of the world understands that Trump is an aberration and an extremist fraud, that he doesn't wield nearly as much power as he thinks, and that good Americans with real vision, talent and promise will soon take his place.
Let's let America be America again.
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It’s beyond my comprehension that Congress stands idly by while Trump seeks to create an autocracy out of the Executive branch.
As if inept Cabinet members with no say in national security weren’t bad enough, Trump’s rampant upheaval of the WH, in general, and the presidential security advisory team is terrifying. The NYT understates the dangers by saying this group isn’t “big on diplomacy.”
Will we see the Intelligence community and military leadership push back or refuse to engage in apparently reckless conflicts? Will Congress readdress the War Powers Act? Will they protect the Special Counsel? Or, having gotten their’s, will they stand by and wring their hands while the US unilaterally embarks on a rampage?
It’s gone well beyond frightening or frustrating. It’s irrational, immoral, and insane.
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The sad truth is that Mattis, now the only Cabinet member with wisdom and experience - and stability - is silenced to the point that he will be axed if he dare disagree with Trump. He is only a figure head, nothing more.
The choice of Bolton is a dangerous and, I believe, lethal marriage with this president. Bolton to me means another war...North Korea? He possibly means an excuse to end our participation in the Iran Nuclear Deal. And there will be more "surprises" to come.
But make no mistake. This is more about an out-of-control president. His mind is now so diminished, warped, and erratic that he absolutely must have his way at our expense. It has nothing to do with politics or governance. It instead means this man must have total control. I believe he is pathologically deranged. And no one, absolutely no one seems to be able to stop him or will even try.
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I think that we all know that the Iraq war was the result of a horrible decision. With it, the Bush administration recreated the consequences of the Vietnam War, of which I was a part. I sure hated to see us make the same mistakes. Only that time, Bush used National Guard troops and multiple tours of duty; Bush and Cheney could not have a draft, as they both avoided serving in Vietnam.
Now Bolton raised that ugly specter once again. He and Trump will send troops into North Korea, with Trump another president who avoided serving in Vietnam.
Bolton could take pot shots from the sidelines, but now he is responsible for policy... that is, if anyone in this Trump administration is responsible for anything. Trump may just irresponsibly conduct his own foreign policy.
Bolton can try his hard line, but the world is different now. China has attained major industrial status. Europe is more unified. As Bolton and Trump retract from the world, it becomes China’s move to recreate all of the global communication mechanisms that Bolton shuns. This raises China’s status even further, possibly to that of the major world power.
We live in uncertain times, now made more uncertain with Bolton’s appointment.
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The most powerful nation of earth NEGOTIATING as such.
Why should the US spend BILLIONS of dollars annually to defend our allies without concessions from our geopolitical foes?
I'm not advocating any armed conflict JUST negotiating from a position of STRENGTH.
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send the Marines ! that is their idea of diplomacy!
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At last the Emperor exhibits himself.
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The last nail in peace's coffin will be when Mattis resigns. I hope he holds a press conference to blast the plans for two preventive wars at once.
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Did I not read somewhere that the Pentagon was planning for the eventuality of two active wars at the same time somewhere on the planet?
Russia gate was a success.
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But there IS no "foreign policy."
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This is really getting dangerous. How long will people stand for this completely crazy person to be in the WH? Bolton is not a bit better and will encourage Trump to do his worst instincts...bully and threaten.
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Mattis will have an uphill battle to keep the peace against the will of the Trump-Bolton-Pompeo triumvirate. Look for him getting fired next as he espouses sane approaches against the team of Hawks Trump has assembled. This is nothing like the Cabinet and advisors that Trump's frequently touted predeccesor put together. I shake in my boots for the future of my country and the world when I recognize the one-sided, war-mongering view point that Trump has assembled.
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Ah, "hard-line" is now the operative word to describe foreign policy in the Administration of President Trump.
I seem to remember the contrasting description "soft-line" being used by the NY Times to describe the policy of the Administration of President Obama.
Oops, maybe not. Maybe only fawning words were used.
Terrifying. A mad man with a button and advisers who'll tell him exactly what he wants to hear. This is deadly serious. And there's nowhere to hide. Congratulations to Vladimir and Trump's base. You might have turned the planet into cinders.
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Bolton’s recent rationale justifying a preemptive strike against N, Korea was that because it possessed weapons of mass destruction, the country was a clear and present danger to us and our allies and justified our taking immediate, unprovoked military action against it.
That “logic” would support military action against the United States by much of the world.
We may be entering an existential crisis graver than any in the history of human kind.
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What did traditional U.s. diplomacy achieve under Obama? A one sided nuclear deal with Iran that gave them $600 million and a path to nuclear weapons in 10 years. Bluster directed at Assad in Syria and a phony red line in the sand that quickly disappeared when Putin flexed his military muscles there. Capitulation to Kim Jung un and North Korea as they launched missile after missile over the Sea of Japan and achieved nuclear weapon status. Announcing a date certain for removing American troops from Afghanistan, which Obama previously asserted was the war which must be won. Running scared from China as they built phony islands in the Sea of Japan to base aircraft that will threaten Japan and Hawaii. Some call that diplomacy. I call it running scared. I'll take a hard liner like Bolton any day.
So did you love the Iraq war? That sure did us a lot of good, eh?
So you want to stop Iran from achieving a bomb in 10 years with a war this year? I know that's not what you're saying, but it's going to be the consequence.
Remember Iraq!
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Says the guy who hasn't served in the military and probably doesn't have any friends or family who will be sent off to be shot at.
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Oh great, more short-sighted bullies, and no diplomats. A confrontation over negotiation: a recipe for war. Just what a shaky world needs more of--unqualified jerks.
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"New Trump Foreign Policy Team Isn’t Big on Diplomacy" You are kidding right with this headline? STOP normalizing this insanity.
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Old enough to remember...the Cold War, and pictures of military parades in Red Square with J. Stalin and the generals behind the walls of the Kremlin, observing their armaments, tanks, marching personnel.
This is Trump's dream scene, plus he's impetuous and unstable.
The generals of today know the horrible possibilities of war so they may act with restraint, but the men such as Bolton and Trump have no acquaintance with military service and I fear their irresponsibility and ignorance.
I thought the world had grown up, but power is seductive, particularly when so much of it is held in the wrong small hands.
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Immediately Congress should pass a draftee act. Everyone should be responsible for war instead of the ones making the decisions at the top, or poor young people who go into the military because there are no other jobs. The sons of those at the top should feel the pains of their parents decisions.
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The appointment of Bolton appears to pave the way for a war with Iran. So far the US public has paid around 3 trillion dollars for Iraq's war. Iran has 3 times the population and 5 times the land mass of Iraq. Is that mean we are talking about another war that could potentially cost US tax payers between 9 to 15 trillion dollars? What is going to be the impact of that on the US economy? what is indisputable is that, one way or the other, some companies will be making trillions. Guess which ones!
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Trump is a chronic over-reacher,
Exhibit 1: a muslim ban in order to stop terrorists. Stupid.
Exhibit 2: Announcing steel tariffs on allies, when really he just wants to get to China
He chronically over-reaches and then backtracks
When dealing with North Korea and Iran he needs surgical precision from the outset. And now with Bolton in the room.........this seems really terrifying.
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I suspect he hopes his core remember the sensationalist headline and forgets his retreats after the fact. Typical coward talks tough then meekly and quietly backs off.
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"The president is unlikely to get the same kind of briefings from Mr. Bolton, who in every job he has held has made his own views clear, and sometimes silenced those who disagreed.
I'm taking bets on how long Mattis lasts. This is a situation that will not hold, whether he quits first, or gets thrown overboard.
As for Bolton, all I keep asking myself is, how does someone with such hard-line views, such nasty temperament, such my-way-or-the-highway thinking, and predetermined policies keep getting government jobs?
It's not as if his resume rings with success. Talk about lifting failure upward. I wonder how Pompeo will get along with him?
Even though their views and personalities are similar (neither suffers fools, if said fools are merely people who disagree), I could see them clashing.
As for the president, well: can either man detect when Trump is becoming so unglued that he's fighting for his political survival with war as the ultimate distraction?
That's when the wrong things get done for the wrong reason, something this president excels at.
Maybe the only thing. Congress now has its work cut out for them, particularly if the TV cabinet sounds the drums of preemptive wars and visions of planes carrying the dead home to Dover.
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He keeps getting government jobs because Americans keep electing mean spirited jerks to run our government.
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The Party of War, Guns and White Spite is now ready to lead America another over another stupendous right-wing cliff.
What part of the world will they destabilize now ?
Last time they blew up Iraq and the Middle East.
Screw diplomacy --- let's bomb our way to peace !
These is the dumbest, most deplorable and most dangerous Administration in modern American history.
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The only part I would disagree with is "modern" American history. I would think that it is in the totality of American history. And that includes the Vietnam (American) war and the conflicts in the Mideast.
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Well the good news, I guess, no need to watch Fox News anymore, just watch a White House briefing.
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The nonstop Trump nightmare grows and gets more terrifying.
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I have to admit that for the first time I’m scared for real of the prospect that Trump will do something exceptionally stupid and catastrophic. We all know he has the tendencies, capacity and inclinations for moronic and impulsive actions based on personal emotions and his own crippling narcissism. But so far the “Adults in the room” have kept him from acting on some of his worst impulses. That line of defense is now gone and John Bolton is the objectively one of the worst people to be in any kind of authority to influence and help make national security decisions together with POTUS. His records and views speak for themselves, and is almost certainly going to lead us in to a dark hole of hostility, aggression and blustering like the world has never seen before. Truly frightening times ahead.
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TORQUEMADA - No one fears Trump. Every world leader on the planet laughs and/or sneers at him and at us for allowing him in the White House.
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This is just what our country and the world really need right now. "The most radically aggressive foreign policy team" assembled around an embattled amoral, narcissistic, sociopathic petulant man-child. What could possibly go wrong?
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$-to-donuts, I would bet a lot of his base that voted for him will benefit from a war, either through participation themselves or their children and/or grandchildren will. After they are cleared of their opioid addiction, that is.
I don't know hwo they would benefit, since they would be the ones most likely to be on the front lines of a war. I don't see being dead as a benefit.
The man is certifiable. He is liable to get us all killed.
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So, Trump is going to take us to war... the only question is when and with whom.
My goodness, the inmates really are running the asylum.
Okay, Trumpians, I hope you are happy.
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"March for Our Lives". Tomorrow.
Find a march/demonstration near you at the link below:
https://event.marchforourlives.com/event/march-our-lives-events/search/
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One of Many, many of them are happy, very happy, maybe even certifiably happy! Unfortunately, they’re dragging us down with them.