Lucylastic -> RE: SO Much Winning!!! (12/7/2017 10:15:03 AM)
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/on-second-thought-trump-decides-not-to-give-peace-a-chance/2017/12/06/1909a90e-dac1-11e7-b1a8-62589434a581_story.html Opinion only, but fairly accurate, in my opinion. There is more at the link. By Dana Milbank Opinion writer December 6 at 4:35 PM “We’re going to win so much, you’re going to be so sick and tired of winning. . . . And I’m going to say, ‘I’m sorry, but we’re going to keep winning, winning, winning.’ ” — Presidential candidate Donald Trump, May 2016 “We don’t have any wins on the board yet.” — Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Dec. 5, 2017 We are losing, losing, losing. We are losing with North Korea, getting closer to nuclear war. We are losing with Russia and China, which are expanding their power unchecked. We are losing in trade as imports from China and Mexico hit records. We are losing with longtime allies that condemn us. We are losing with our secretary of state, undercut by his own boss. We are losing with our former national security adviser, now a felon. I say to President Trump: “I am so tired of losing. I don’t want to lose any more.” And Trump says: “I’m sorry, but we’re going to keep losing. Now we are going to lose in the Middle East.” Earlier this year, Trump proclaimed that a deal in the region is “maybe not as difficult as people have thought over the years.” As recently as two months ago he said this of his administration’s peace plan: “I want to give that a shot before I even think about moving the embassy to Jerusalem.” So much for giving peace a “shot.” With Wednesday’s announcement that he’s recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and moving the U.S. Embassy there, he’s effectively throwing in the towel on Mideast peace. He’s inflaming Arab allies, denying the United States legitimacy as a broker and putting already remote hopes of a peace deal into the category of pipe dreams. Not only did he announce the embassy move, but he also softened the longtime American commitment to a two-state solution (embraced by George W. Bush in 2002), saying the United States would support two states “if agreed to by both sides.”
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