The Donald getting love from the Arab street

[christiefan915]

Arabs on social media are showering US President Donald Trump with thanks and praise after he ordered the first direct US military action against Syrian government forces.

The US conducted the strikes on a Syrian air base in the early hours of Friday following a suspected chemical attack on a rebel-held town.

Shortly after, some Arab social media users started referring to the president as Abu Ivanka - Father of Ivanka, as a sign of respect and endearment.

One user gave Trump an Arab makeover, with a meme of him wearing a traditional tarboosh hat (similar to a fez), with the words: "We love you."

He was also described as a "man of his words", with one user telling him: "You did in a few months what Obama couldn't do in 8 years."

http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-39526653

The "Arab Street" minus Syria.

"Syrian journalist Rami Jarrah had a more measured response: "Syrians are not cheering a pathetic human being like Trump, they're just happy Assad has less means to kill them with."

"Trump has quickly discovered the magic principle of US politics: when things go wrong at home, start a military venture in the Middle East," London-based blogger Karl Sharro, who is half-Lebanese and half-Iraqi, commented.

Another person added: "So now you love Trump? Where are those who said when he came into power that he hates Arabs and Muslims?"

Also, a pro-Syrian government Twitter user who was critical of the US move tweeted: "Is Trump going to bomb his own airfields for all the Iraqi and Syrian children they have killed in Raqqa and Mosul?"

 

[Stretch]

China puts up with them because they're fellow communists. Kind of like how the arabs put up with the Palestinians.

Ally is probably a stretch.

Good description, thanks. Yet, it seems that in so many ways they are worlds apart. I might be blind to other similarities. Maybe because I am mostly familiar with Hong Kong which I have been to a few times since '97 when the handover occurred. There's so much wealth which has remained. The people are so friendly. Official English traditions are still evident, high tea in the afternoon. Christmas is celebrated openly with all the skyscrapers decorated and glowing at night in red and green. There's no saying "Happy Holidays" over there, it's always "Merry Christmas". The malls are filled with high end designers. One would never think it's Communist.

 

[christiefan915]

We lost a lot of respect the last 8 years---a fair amount of it had to do with Obama not following through on the Red Line.

I think the timing of the strike had a lot to do with NK and probably the upcoming meeting with Putin. Trump is consistently underestimated by his domestic detractors. Ironically, I doubt that's the case on the world stage.

I don't know where you get that from. Obama got much more respect than bush.

 

[christiefan915]

Majorities in 13 out of 15 countries surveyed have positive views of the United States. In many of these countries, notably France, Poland, Spain, the UK and Japan, favorable views of the U.S. have endured since 2009, when President Barack Obama first took office. Today, America gets its highest ratings from Poles (74%), Italians (72%), Japanese (72%) and Swedes (69%).

 

[Damocles]

Can anybody tell me when the last time the US led a successful regime change that brought positive changes for the nation/s in question? Just sayin'... It's my hope that we'll not go down that path again. Yes, do what we can to protect people from chemical strikes on their own population (and yeah, when we see the planes take off from that base and they drop chemicals it is NOT a sneaky rebel attack on the town)... No, do not make this something more than that. If the people there want regime change they'll need to get that done without us.

 

[anatta]

Grenada the last successful regime change? I can't think of any

 

[Althea]

Think about what you just said.

Putin helps Trump win the WH. Then Trump turns around and fires Tomahawks at Putin's assets in Syria. Putin must be rethinking some things lol.

Only the die hard anti-Trump left doesn't see the problem with that. Either that, they'll conjure a supporting theory to prop-up the Russian theory.

They have officially jumped the shark.

Or, we can think about what you said. One of two things happened. Putin learned that trump never adheres to a contract, as we in this country already know.

Or, trump found a place to waste more than $60 billion, where none of Putin's assets would be affected. He gets to pretend to be tough on Syria, while driving oil prices higher....which makes Putin very happy.

 

[Althea]

We lost a lot of respect the last 8 years---a fair amount of it had to do with Obama not following through on the Red Line.

I think the timing of the strike had a lot to do with NK and probably the upcoming meeting with Putin. Trump is consistently underestimated by his domestic detractors. Ironically, I doubt that's the case on the world stage.

Then explain why Assad waited for an overweight, impotent idiot to be in office before he dared to use chemical weapons?

 

[Althea]

Can anybody tell me when the last time the US led a successful regime change that brought positive changes for the nation/s in question? Just sayin'... It's my hope that we'll not go down that path again. Yes, do what we can to protect people from chemical strikes on their own population (and yeah, when we see the planes take off from that base and they drop chemicals it is NOT a sneaky rebel attack on the town)... No, do not make this something more than that. If the people there want regime change they'll need to get that done without us.

We would have to define 'successful'. We installed the Shah in Iran, and that worked out for us until the Iranian citizens got sick of our puppet. We typically try to find leaders who will gladly take our billions in exchange for oil, or allowing us to build military bases there to protect same.

I agree...we have to let these dictators murder their own civilians in order to define the parameters of their own societies. We gave these poor people the idea that if they just rise up, everything will be fine. It doesn't work like that in those tribal societies.