I realize that most people think I do not like Mr. Trump…..well they are correct. Not from some political ideological point but rather that he will not be good for this country on so many levels.
He, Trump, may be a successful (debatable) businessman but his rhetoric could do damage to our defense industry (it needs to be shaken up a bit)….now that could be a good thing it could help us get out of the war business…….but it could also be disastrous to our economy.
Say what?
As Mr. Trump closes in on the GOP nomination for 2016 there is a massive attacks of panic, especially around the Military-Industrial Complex (M-IC). I’m sure that most that read IST realize that the biggest and most profitable industry in the US is the manufacturing of weapons and weapon systems.
Mr. Trump has promised to bring back jobs to America and to make this country prosperous again. Unfortunately is his rhetoric has the M-IC running a bit worried…..
This is a piece written by Sierra Rayne for the American Thinker……
Donald Trump’s views on immigration and Islam are not just polarizing public opinion and the media, but also causing waves within the American defense sector.
Defense One reports that “if Trump wins, expect thousands of defense jobs to move to Europe[.] … The GOP frontrunner’s anti-Muslim comments could prompt U.S. allies to shop elsewhere for arms.”
According to Byron Callan, an analyst with research firm Capital Alpha Partners, “President Trump may prove offensive to Islamic states and those countries could seek alternative sources of weapons systems.”
Another defense industry lobbyist was quoted as saying “anti-Muslim rhetoric absolutely does not help when you’re trying to sell to the Middle East.”
Anthony Cordesman, a Middle East expert with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, broadened the issue to other nations for which arms exports are important: “Trump’s nationalistic comments could have ripples beyond the Middle East. ‘Do you really think that Europeans, or Asians, or Latin Americans are going to be any more trusting?’”
Number One …. We do not need to be arming The Middle East! We need to get our noses out of The Middle East and if The Middle East wants to purchase inferior weapons systems then let them go ahead and buy them … but I have my suspicions they are not about to buy inferior weapons —- and I think Trump is smart enough to surround himself with a proper “Brain Trust” to assist him with the technical details of Foreign Affairs, Domestic Affairs, Constitutional Law and all the rest of it just like other presidents have done. The whole Anti-Trump thing has nothing at all to do with how Mr. Trump would execute his office if he were the President … The whole anti-Trump thing is based on fears by the entrenched elites that he will shake up their comfort zones and actually insist they earn their pay and do some of the work of governing rather than obstructing everything all the time. This is a battle between the entrenched power structure that wants above all things to continue to tell their constituencies what is best for them and to run the show and dictate everything rather than listening to what the constituencies want and allowing the peons in the party (Mr. and Mrs. Average America) to have any say so in how things ought to be.
I do not think these days that inferior weapons is a concern…..a rocket is a rocket….I am not an elite and his words worry me….I have a granddaughter that will have to live in a world at war with itself….that should scare any rational person…
“Number One …. We do not need to be arming The Middle East!”
Look out, you may have just earned yourself a drone strike!
Because that’s one of the bigger heresies out there. If America didn’t supply Israel, Egypt and the penniless Saudis with billions of free weaponry every year….and sold them billions more…uh…well… something bad would happen I’m sure. Peace might break out!
Nobody wants risking that.
There is no profit to be made in the Business of Peace so you are 100% on target — and about the drone strike … I am fairly mobile most of the time.
I think we have to avoid any tendency to have knee jerk reactions to what other people are projecting Mr. Trump’s Foreign Policies might be. There are all kinds of horrible prognostications out there about how he will have us in wars unending if he gets the office he is seeking. But when one looks at who he has been depending on (according to reports I have read) for advice on Foreign Policy (None other than Senator Jeff Sessions who is seen to be very well versed on the challenges we face around the world ) then I think we have to have a little confidence that Donald will also choose others with keen eyes and common sense to advise him and he won’t turn out to be the uncontrollable dictator many fear that he might try to become.
Sessions gets most of his funds from the M-IC like so many others…..war is all they know and want….I would prefer to have him lean on some actual “experts” in the field….. A Congress person is nothing if nt worthless….
The problem is that Trump IS a walking knee-jerk reaction. He barely says anything longer, more detailed, or more respectful, than your average Tweet from The Twit Zone. And people like it that way! They just want to cheer the simplicity, the racism, the “honest style”, or whatever each demographic is Nuremberging to. Because he presses so many buttons.
Likewise, it’s really hard not to respond to him in a knee-jerk way because that’s all we’re given. He’s the perfect candidate for the Twit-o-sphere Era.
Yeah, I’m crying tears for the weapons makers and all the jobs dependant on killing people. Yes, it would ruin the economy because the only thing America makes anymore is weaponry (and cars). Without it, manufacturing is all but dead.
However, I think this is nothing more than a tactic from the Military Industrial Spy Complex (MISC). They aren’t worried at all. They know all of Trump’s anti-Muslim tirades will dovetail nicely into their agenda, especially the Spy part. Surely some angered Muslim will try something after listening to Trump. White pacifists are storming his stages now.
But by whipping up fears of job losses under Trump, they essentially inoculate themselves against Trump doing anything, not that he would. Not only that, President Trump will be looking to solidify his “legitimacy” and will probably give them a good spending bump. The most he’ll ask for in return is “better value for the dollar”. Hahaha.
This is not unlike Obama taking office and appointing the same financial douches whose ideas ruined the economy to run his economic team. It gave him instant “legitimacy”, despite treating the problem with more of the problem.
True…..yes the jobs thingy and all will be well….a standard ploy for American politics….