MrRodgers
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A little perspective on my OP, from the GOP going after Trump.
“Trump is a danger to our national security,” John B. Bellinger III, legal adviser to the State Department under President George W. Bush, bluntly warned."
Leading American conservative thinkers on foreign policy issued an open letter a few days ago warning that they could not support Trump. The signatories include Michael Chertoff, the former secretary of homeland security, Robert Zoellick, the former deputy secretary of state, and more than 100 others.
“Mr. Trump’s own statements lead us to conclude that as president, he would use the authority of his office to act in ways that make America less safe,” the letter declared.
As Mitt Romney notes, “This is the very brand of anger that has led other nations into the abyss.” (oh really, and only now ? [sic])
“Yet what Trump promises to do would in some important ways make all of the problems we face dramatically worse,” he told me. (than Obama/Clinton) Peter Feaver, a Duke University political scientist who was a national security official in the Bush White House.
An adaptation:
Don't be conned by the neocons! These are the people who took us into Iraq with lies and torture and by high-level people that we've still not held accountable (thanks to President Obama) and from which we still have not been able to extract ourselves. And do you think an ideologically rigid authoritarian like Ted "carpet bomb" Cruz would be better than Donald Trump ? Please think again.
It is rich that the same 'experts' warn Americans of foreign policy risks from a Trump, who are responsible for the worst foreign policy disaster in decades. (maybe ever) The same experts who led us into Iraq and who are responsible for the that disaster and the subsequent resulting implosion of the entire Middle East, all of which did more to discredit American hard and soft power than anyone else since the Vietnam war, and now they are supposed to be the bright brigade saving us from foreign policy blunders of a Trump ? So help us God.
The best thing Trump can do, is get rid of the messianic neocons and is able to deal with Putin away from the cold war rhetoric, we'll see. The risks of Trump are real, but hardly any bigger than from 'carpet-bomb' Cruz or pretty boy Rubio, who is likely to simply repeat what someone else whispers to him. I'm not a Republican and am not enjoying the collapse of that party into prepubescent macho mudslinging but at this point but if the Donald seems the best of the three remaining candidates, the repubs are in trouble.
At least his Bible is "The Art of the Deal" which means maybe, maybe he's willing to negotiate rather than dictate and pontificate unlike his Republican colleagues in the Senate. Again kinkroids, that singular political establishment of whom I've written in this country, is broken (but still holds the power) and has failed the people. As I've also informed, that is why we have two vigorous populist, anti-establishment candidates in Sanders and Trump. While my fading hopes are with Bernie, I can see many disaffected Democrats turning to The Donald rather than the system that has clearly failed them.
To me and directly as a result of that singular non-partisan 'establishment' there will never be a truly independent 'reformer' allowed to reform anything in reality. One could come to a view that all any president is doing, is rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
< Message edited by MrRodgers -- 3/6/2016 7:17:44 AM >
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RE: I knew it was coming...GOP establish. vs Trump - 
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