Posted on 03/23/2016 3:03:55 PM PDT by McGruff
THE TERRORIST assault on Brussels Tuesday, just four days after the arrest of an architect of last year’s attacks in Paris, underlined the resilience and continued menace of the Islamic State — to Europe, to the United States and to vital Western interests. It also revealed a crucial divide among U.S. presidential candidates about what this country must do to protect itself.
One one side are those who support the internationalist response of President Obama, who said the United States “will do whatever is necessary to support our friend and ally Belgium,” and who asserted that “we must be together, regardless of nationality or race or faith, in fighting against the scourge of terrorism.” That view was broadly shared by Democrats Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders and Republican John Kasich.
Against them is the radical isolationism of Donald Trump, from whom the Brussels bloodshed prompted another call to “close up our borders,” and who on Monday questioned the value of U.S. support for NATO allies such as Belgium. Though GOP rival Ted Cruz rejected Mr. Trump’s position on NATO, his answer to Brussels was similar: He, too, stressed “secur[ing] the southern border” and curtailing refugee flows, along with patrols of “Muslim neighborhoods.”
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Terror in Brussels is the VALIDATION of Trump’s foreign Policy.
FIXED
Unfit to line bird cages = Compost
Yeah, imagine, protecting America first. Horrible.
Wapo is funny.
These morons can’t even place the blame where it lies. The muslims are the problem. And we currently do not have a policy to deal with them as obama does not see them as a threat.
Liberals. Expressing “opposite logic” and proud of themselves when they do it.
Had they been at the helm of the Titanic, they would have kept ramming the iceberg to prevent the ship from sinking.
Because we’ve been following trump’s foreign policy for the past 7 years...
Or maybe since Bush 41 ....
Oh
Wait
This makes about as much sense as when Hillary claimed Benghazi was caused by a video....
Trump more than ever. They will never learn. 15 years now, really more like 40+ and the soft approach isn’t working. And DC still doesn’t get it.
No pussy for president. Time for an alpha dog.
Best defense is a good offense? That only works when the offense doesn’t offend logic and reason.
These fools won’t be satisfied until explosions
rack a strip mall in their own neighborhood...
then they’ll whine and cry “What happened”.
They are of course, smarter than you, old sport, said the sweater be clad man with patches on the elbows. /s
obama never, ever even remotely is held accountable.
I hope President Trump has a tough-as-nails, sharp-as-a-tac, spokesperson who points out the media hypocrisy when the press attacks each and every policy.
I have seen some very bizarre reactions to the terror attacks yesterday from my liberal minded friends on Facebook.
I wonder if deep down inside they are really losing their minds when they see this stuff happen, even though their cool university professor type of guy has been the President all of these years, along with their rockstar schoolmarm who was Secretary of State for most of that time. After all, they can not credibly blame Bush or Cheney or Rumsfeld for any of this.
Tell us again how NATO can help fight Islamists already living in Europe.
Oh, yeah. Obama has done a GREAT job dealing with, er, Muslim terrorism. Or should that be workplace violence?
Because the horror in Brussels is a validation of the Obama/Clinton strategy of ignoring terrorists and pretending that they’re just a little annoyance that we’ll have to get used to?
Did I just wake up from a year’s sleep and Trump is now President?
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