Posted on 01/19/2017 7:49:14 PM PST by Mariner
“Don’t make any sudden moves” is the advice offered to the new president by Richard Haass of the Council on Foreign Relations, which has not traditionally been known as a beer hall of populist beliefs.
Haass meant the president should bring his National Security Council together to anticipate the consequences before tearing up the Iran nuclear deal, moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem or shooting down a missile being tested by Kim Jong-Un.
In arguing against rash action, Haass is correct.
Where the CFR and the establishment are wrong, and Donald Trump is right, however, is in recognizing the new world we have entered.
The old order is passing away. Treaties and alliances dating from the Cold War are ceasing to be relevant and cannot long be sustained.
Economic patriotism and ethnonationalism, personified by Trump, seem everywhere ascendant. Transnationalism is yielding to tribalism.
The greater danger for President Trump is that the movement he led will be abandoned, its hopes dashed, and the agenda that Trump rejected and routed will be reimposed by a Republican Establishment and its collaborators in politics and the press.
Again, it was Trump who read the nation right, which is why he is taking the oath today.
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Tribalism is second only to the need to reproduce in our genetic code. Only the really smart people are dumb enough to believe they can change that.
There are gonna be major, sudden and drastic change to Washington, current laws, law enforcement, energy directives, EPA directives, and foreign policy starting tomorrow.
Get used to it pal.
It’s gonna be great!
+1
Americans have been patriotic for some time. I didn’t know patriotism is tribalism.
Well, people who believe there are more important things than the wealth of the Davos crowd, certainly.
A nation is just a big tribe.
I wasn’t sure how much this election meant (I voted for Trump, and really couldn’t the thought of Hillary as president), but from the left’s reaction (and that of their media proxies) I see that at the very least much of their agenda is dead/off the table - as it was in 2000.
Yep, thanks to Mr. Trump giving the orders now, America will be great again! Nobody has a choice otherwise since they have to do whatever he says.
Take that silly commentary and get the hell out of here.
West Jerusalem was part of pre1967 Israel. If the US Embassy is in West Jerusalem, how do the Arab nations have any grounds to complain?
Admin and/or Jim.
Take a look at post number 8 and see the brand new disrupter who made it.
Welcome to FR! Others FReepers on other threads smell a rat when they see your posts.
Enjoy what time you have remaining here.
Buchanan is correctly saying that Trump should rebuild the United States instead of the world.
What are you talking about? If I am not welcome here, I will leave.
Leavigrovrs! Lol!
leave or soon you’ll be escorted
Another one
“Leave” seems to be the root word for your FReeper name!
yep. we outted him in the mermaid thread and the thread about the fat retarded kid that started the fire.
inauguration troll.
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