How can a man who owns properties all over the world ever be an isolationist?
Trump is now the ONLY choice.
Not impressed with either one, and I think we could do with some non-interventionism.
Trump wants to put “America First” — is that now a disqualification for president of the US?
Take a look around. How long are you going to allow yourself to continue being played for a fool by the “Caucus for Perpetual War”? How well has 30 years of Interventionist policy worked out for the USA?
Great idea, we have not yet completely decimated and eliminated the middle class. We can't have a guy as president that is not going to see the job through to completion.
Eliminate the middle class completely.
Don't Vote for Trump.
TRUMP is right about revamping NATO and hopefully the UN.
It is time AMERICA led from the front and not from behind.
I just heard a top-of-the-hour news segment about Trump. The guy says that GOP rules require that a candidate receive 1237 votes to win, but then he said Trump disagrees. Then he played an audio of Trump saying that if he wins he should get the delegates.
I think that was a splice put together about two different topics to mislead. Trump was probably talking about the situation in Louisiana.
A part of me is beginning to like the idea of isolationism. I am sick of giving money to people who hate us, steal our technology, corrupt leaders, or those too chicken to fight for their own freedom.
Why Trump is a Security Threat
Trump is not just ignorant, but aggressively so. Even when better-informed interlocutors (a category that includes just about anyone that Trump talks to) try to set him straight about his errors of fact, he refuses to admit he is wrong or correct himself. The Times interview provided two glaring examples.
First, Trump complained that after signing the nuclear deal Iran is “buying from everybody but the United States.” Times correspondent David Sanger interjected: “Our law prevents us from selling to them, sir.” Trump: “Uh, excuse me?” Sanger: “Our law prevents us from selling any planes or, we still have sanctions in the U.S. that would prevent the U.S. from being able to sell that equipment.” Trump: “So, how stupid is that? We give them the money, and we now say, “Go buy Airbus instead of Boeing,” right? So how stupid is that?” Actually, it’s not so stupid since we have sanctions in place on Iran because of its support of terrorism and illegal testing of ballistic missiles. Is Trump implying that he’d like to lift those sanctions? Or is he simply unaware that they exist?
Another example of Trump’s ignorance: He said not once, not twice, not three times, but four times that “Iran is the No. 1 trading partner of North Korea.” Finally, Sanger challenged him: “Mr. Trump with all due respect, I think it’s China that’s the No. 1 trading partner with North Korea.” Trump’s insouciant reply: “I’ve heard that certainly, but I’ve also heard from other sources that it’s Iran.” What sources does Trump have in mind? It would be great if he would cite them, since every source I have seen — e.g. the CIA Fact Book and CNN — asserts that some 70% of North Korean trade is conducted with China and 20% with South Korea and most of the rest with India and the EU. Iran barely registers beyond serving as a destination for some North Korean missile sales. Far from being North Korea’s top trading partner, Iran is probably one of the smallest.
Trump seems to think he is entitled not only to his own opinion but to his own facts. He not only doesn’t know much, but he also doesn’t know what he doesn’t know — and he’s made no effort to educate himself. That’s a dangerous combination in someone who aspires to the most powerful job in the world.
Trump is highly selective and even deceptive in his citation of history. This is especially a concern since history provides the storehouse of information and ideas upon which statesmen act.
Read more here: https://www.commentarymagazine.com/foreign-policy/why-trump-is-a-national-security-threat/
The finance/government/media complex alliance will not allow the slightest deviation in their plan to implement an Unlimited Immigration Welfare State.
This is a good article.
I’ve never seen so much outside-of-the-box thinking about foreign policy, and yet, when you think about it, so much of this outside-of-the-box thinking seems obvious after you’ve thought about it for a couple of minutes.
1. Trump is right about not having toppled Mideast dictators (in the name of “Democracy”). The West would be FAR better off if the Mideast status quo from a decade earlier had been maintained.
2. Much of current foreign policy is simply stagnated momentum leftover from WWII and the cold war. What good does NATO actually do the U.S. right now other than to potentially drag the U.S. into stupid, useless wars in which we have no real dog in the fight, e.g. Turkey p!ssing off Russia? Half of the old Soviet Union wants to join or already has joined NATO. The old Warsaw Pact is long extinct, so what is it exactly that NATO is countering? If Europe wants to keep NATO, then let them pay for most of it.
3. Nukes for our allies Korea and Japan are a fine idea: nukes keep pretty much EVERYONE with a military from attacking you. Period. So if our Korean and Japanese allies had their own nukes, then the U.S. would no longer be obligated to protect them militarily. So if Korea and the Norks nuke each other or if Japan and China nuke each other, the U.S. wouldn’t automatically be obligated to engage in nuclear war.
4. And if/when we do continue to provide military protection to rich countries like Saudi Arabia and South Korea, then yes, let them pay for it. Why shouldn’t they?
5. And none of this is isolationist, it’s simply a matter of our allies standing on their own two feet.
And finally, besides formulating a 21st century foreign policy instead of coasting along on an obsolete 20th century foreign policy, Trump’s foreign policy ideas are brilliant from a political perspective as well, since you know damn good and well that that fool Hillary Clinton will feel obligated to knee-jerk oppose whatever Trump says, which is going to cause her to come off as a major war-monger, which will NOT make her look tough, but instead will p!ss off quite a bit of her pacifist base. No doubt this latter is a deliberate manipulation on Trump’s part.
Trump’s foreign policy positions are very similar to George Washington’s as stated in his Farewell Address.
Now Trump is the devil incarnate.
And how well has US foreign policy served the country’s interests in the last say 40 years? And especially the last, well since the beginning of Clinton? And even more, since 0bughole who was totally assisted by congress including the R controlled?
Chaos and death and jihad spreading rapidly is one result, after taking down Mubarak, Saddam and now trying to oust Assad - all by the US. And Clinton responsible for the deaths and nastiness in Yugoslavia.
Given two choices, Isolationist or Globalist. Which would you want?
How can somebody with a degree from Wharton fail to recognize the positive benefits of deregulation and tax reduction in the pursuit of improving international trade?
How can that same person tout tariffs as the solution, without mentioning deregulation and tax reduction?
How can that same person then defend the introduction of tariffs as simply an initial negotiating position?
(which of course completely undermines the strategy before its even on the table)
Genius negotiator???
There is a right way to do things and there is a wrong way to do things. The wrong way has been done for so long that the people now believe the wrong is right.. down is up... etc.
It is not hard to run this country just doing what is right. Name calling/labeling doesn’t change the fact that something is correct. Tough love in parenting is not easy, but it works better than this lousy loose whatever goes thing as of late.
Get rid of all the names/labels... and just do the right things. Closing our borders and sending illegals back is not being isolationists. We rebuilt Japan after the war... how long do we have to pay for that country... we handled the share of cost for all of Europe after the war... how long do we have to keep on keeping them out of trouble... the Saudis are a wealthy country... all that oil we are paying for to drive here when we have oil that we can’t drill... and we still give those countries money... tax dollars.
When does one go through and find out where our money is going and why. When does one cut out what is no longer necessary. When does one stop paying countries .. just because it has been done.. doesn’t mean it has to continue. We are being fried with debt... that debt is OURS... and we need to care who we are paying and why. This is not post WWII... it’s long been gone.. and we need to take care of this country... no one else will give a care. We need to bring back the factories we lost to Japan and China. We need to think about what is right for the USA. There will be respect once again for the USA if we are strong and have a robust economy.. a place like no other. It’s been dethroned and destroyed by obama and the left. A strong leader who is not afraid to make things right again.. will do wonders for the USA. It takes more than just being a conservative ... the whole GOP and congress has been so absent in leadership... they do not have a clue as to what is right.. it’s only what’s right for THEM. Their so called “conservatism” is one thing that is wrong with this land. They have duped us all and their so called conservatism has been a total failure.
We can’t afford to be policemen of the world anymore.