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| Donald Trump: 'We will stop racing to topple foreign regimes' |
| 2016-12-07 |
| [Guardian] Donald Trump: 'We will stop racing to topple foreign regimes.' Donald Trump has laid out a US military policy that would avoid interventions in foreign conflicts and instead focus heavily on defeating the Islamic State militancy. "We will stop racing to topple foreign regimes that we know nothing about, that we shouldn’t be involved with," the president-elect said on Tuesday night in Fayetteville, near Fort Bragg military base in North Carolina. "Instead our focus must be on defeating terrorism and destroying Isis, and we will." |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #13 imho, the shoring up of what we have left here will be DJT job #1. Do not help a fellow passenger put on their oxygen mask until yours is securely in place and operating. |
| Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 2016-12-07 19:56 |
| #12 ed in texas, I've been saying that for years. A wall cuts that off and will force Mexico to fix themselves. A wall thus indirectly helps 122 million people and is the human solution. Allowing the status quo of illegals and sending money back helps the oligarchs at the expense of the poorest (generally Mexicans of Indian heritage). |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2016-12-07 17:46 |
| #11 You have to bear in mind that the major reason the government of Mexico endures is because any of their citizens who are of the "not gonna take it" mentality are encouraged to move elsewhere, as in the US. The border has been their safety valve. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2016-12-07 17:31 |
| #10 And Mexico, we should have put a proper government in place decades ago. A third of Mexicans want to come to the US (according to CNN) so we haven't seen anything yet. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2016-12-07 15:55 |
| #9 The problem is the vast majority of SUNNI Arabs are a bit sympathetic to ISIS. It's the leadership that fears ISIS and are trying to befriend the Tiger until someone else can take care of it. Once I had hope Turkey could responsibly handle the region, now I think the Kurds and the Israel are the only ones worth a damned (far more than a damned) but neither one is in a position to get involved. So defend Israel and the Kurds and let the Arabs deal with it. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2016-12-07 15:53 |
| #8 I'm a little uneasy with this ISIS business. It looks to me like an Arab problem best resolved by Arabs. How do you even define defeating them? The Arabs could not have long stood against ISIS on their own -- we saw what it looked like when they tried. I would define defeat as killing enough of them that the rest surrender, then put them on chain gangs to rebuild the communities they despoiled. Then put them on lifetime probation with automatic death penalty for breaking it, plus additional punishments or exile for their nearest relations -- no ten year maximum hudna before returning to the jihad, or supporting jihad, for them. Others probably define it differently. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2016-12-07 14:57 |
| #7 Let them topple on their own. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2016-12-07 13:11 |
| #6 The absolute rejection of Jeb! should have been a solid clue... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2016-12-07 11:53 |
| #5 I'm a little uneasy with this ISIS business. It looks to me like an Arab problem best resolved by Arabs. How do you even define defeating them? They'll just scatter and reconstitute themselves somewhere else. Meddling is what got us into so many of these messes in the first place. Just make sure that none of them get into the United States. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2016-12-07 11:26 |
| #4 So we're gonna topple the government of Mexico? Of course, it is an act of war when their people flood our country, a very disorganized war but war none the less. Still I think I like the wall better. And shoot to kill anybody who tries to get over it. But then if the Mexican government falls of its own weight I'll be OK with that too. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2016-12-07 11:20 |
| #3 I'd make an exemption in that dumping your population on us is considered an act of war warranting removing the responsible regimes (ie ruling caste). |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-12-07 08:37 |
| #2 A Google search reveals little media coverage of this announcement, which apparently repeats one made five days ago, which did make it into one US paper - Washington Examiner So why didn't David Muir cover this story? [rhetorical] Wins 1000 gratuitous snark points. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2016-12-07 07:27 |
| #1 Keep a wary eye on the bastids, but stay at home and take care of business right here. I see no downside. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2016-12-07 06:11 |