Originally Posted by
Havana Moon
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For all his faults Trump hasn't caused hundreds of thousands of deaths in Iraq, Syria and Libya. However Shrillary Clinton and Obama managed to do that and more, but yeh Obama was charming. I am sure the dead in those countries would appreciate that at least!
I would imagine neither Hillary nor Obama would win many popularity contests in the region.
The over the top reaction to Trump’s action in Syria is driven by a combination of sheer partisan politics coupled with the usual warmongers that have been around for decades. That’s why you see this unseemly coupling between people like Karl Rove and sundry lefties.
The dirty little political secret is that Trump *isn’t* vulnerable on foreign policy and there’s an important election coming up: Trump hasn’t invaded anyone, to put it simply. And that’s exactly how low the bar has been set by Trump’s immediate predecessors: simply don’t pointlessly topple a secular Middle eastern despot and you will be the best foreign policy president in a decade. Just don’t do THAT, and you will come out ahead.
Think about that.
So, the democrats and their media propaganda arm have to make this The Mother of All Foreign Policy Missteps even if it means kissing Karl Rove on the lips. They don’t care about the Kurds [nobody does, really]—it’s all about the upcoming election. That is why one major outlet was caught using footage from a gun range in Kentucky for their pro-war propaganda.
The other thing that drives it is the ‘military industrial complex’ and their host of bought and paid for Congress critters. The MIC is a real thing: Eisenhower was right, after all. There are ‘interested parties’ in this war game stuff; they are multi-billion dollar corporations with stockholders and along with the ideologues in the Pentagon and State Department—-Trump is on the wrong side of all of them.
But it’s been said you can judge a man by his enemies.
Coup has started. First of many steps. Impeachment will follow ultimately~WB attorney Mark Zaid, January 2017
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