Are you sitting down? This post could be a shock to your system…….
I have been a critic of Donald Trump as a candidate for the highest office in the land…..I also have defended him on some of his foreign policy statements much to the chagrin of some of my friends….
As a student of foreign policy and especially of conflict management Mr. Trump has made a few statements that need to be taken seriously…..his statements have made a lot of sense and need to be addressed by the other candidate….
Along with his self-congratulatory bombast, Donald Trump has offered a rare critique of Official Washington’s “group think” about foreign policy, including the wisdom of NATO expansion and the value of endless war, notes John V. Walsh.
“Only Donald Trump (among the Presidential candidates) has said anything meaningful and critical of U.S. foreign policy.” No, that is not Reince Priebus, chair of the RNC, speaking up in favor of the presumptive Republican nominee. It is Stephen F. Cohen, Emeritus Professor of Russian History at Princeton and NYU, a contributing editor for The Nation, that most liberal of political journals.
Cohen tells us here that: “Trump’s questions are fundamental and urgent, but instead of engaging them, his opponents (including President Obama) and the media dismiss the issues he raises about foreign policy as ignorant and dangerous. Some even charge that his statements are like ‘Christmas in the Kremlin’ and that he is ‘the Kremlin’s Candidate’ — thereby, further shutting off the debate we so urgently need.” (Cohen’s comment about the lack of a meaningful critique of U.S. foreign policy also covers the statements of Sen. Bernie Sanders.)
Source: Trump’s Five Questions on US Foreign Policy – Consortiumnews
It is time for the “presumptive” candidate for the Left to start addressing the foreign policy of this country…..as it is she looks like a neocon in progressive clothing…..maybe now she will be forced to take a “real” stand.
Please this is NOT an endorsement of Donald Trump’s candidacy….it is just a statement of fact that he has said some things that make a lot of sense….they may not necessarily become policy if he is elected…..but it does give one something to think about….that is if anyone does that sort of thing anymore.
I would venture to guess that what he has said about foreign policy is in opposition to the current thought for the exact same reason his entire candidacy has taken root, to wit: it’s different from the others. I doubt, seriously, whether he means ANY of it, any more than he has meant anything else he’s said. In fact, he has openly admitted to adjusting his words to fit the situation, and they don’t have anything to do with what he would actually do as president….
He’s a congenital liar, successful at business for that very reason; he is also, clinically speaking, a narcissist, and a sociopath…. which is why he fits the job specs so well….
The presidency hasn’t had anyone in it who didn’t lie since, well, forever. Even Jimmy Carter, a true Christian, found it expedient to lie, for he knew enough politics to recognize the necessity, if one is to get anything done….
“Choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.” — Jerry Garcia
gigoid, the dubious
Of course he is lying…but he did have a couple of points….chuq
Well, sort of pencil nubs more than sharp points, but, I’ll grant their difference from the others, for it strengthens my point… None of them are making any sharp points, I’d say, not even the Donald (I always want to finish that off with a ‘Duck’)….
*wink*
gigoid
LOL……c