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bombed those sites and killed some folks, the trump haters would say he's bloodthirsty and should have tried diplomacy. because he showed restraint, the same exact people will say he’s too soft. it doesn’t matter what he does. the problem is his existence, not what he does. Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device |
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But it looks like here he didn't get played by War Mongers. I am not a fan. We could have had a better pres. BTW - the US may have launched new cyber attacks on Iran. https://news.yahoo.com/pentagon-secr...wer&soc_trk=tw |
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mongers? Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device |
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believe everything that goes against my agenda. Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device |
it's funny to see who the bitter clingers really are
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Who knows what the actual decisions were, but reporting now indicates Trump ordered the attack and possibly due to Bolton’s advice and then senior pentagon officials may have gotten him to cancel. If that’s true and it certainly falls right into his playbook, is that a strong smart president, sits down with all the key people, weighs the pros and cons, then makes the call and sticks with it. This is typical reactionary Trump, hears from someone he likes and goes off quickly in that direction, walking things back is his MO.
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the reality to fit their agenda. Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device |
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let the Iranians know that it was very close to being worse for them. Trump has done things i can not stand. i think he handled this about as well as it could have been handled. he had a few options, and no matter what he did, the liberals in the media would have attacked him for it, and you would have sucked it up like a Hoover deluxe. what would you have had him do? Nothing? Send them more cash? Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device |
I would rather he built a coalition, than send Pompeo after the fact to the Middle East to try and assemble one, or put one back together depending on your viewpoint.
America First (Alone) is not an example of good leadership. Here's the countries that were in the Gulf War coalition and regardless of how you feel about the Gulf War, the diplomatic and military leadership was incredibly skilled. I don't see that happening with this President. The Allied coalition was made up of 39 countries: Afghanistan, Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belgium, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Honduras, Hungary, Italy, Kuwait, Morocco, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Niger, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Syria, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and the United States. The US Department of Defense has estimated the incremental costs of the Gulf War at $61 billion, with US allies providing about $54 billion of that -- Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states covered $36 billion. Germany and Japan covered $16 billion. |
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Or they realize that politically the Iranian politicians cannot be seen by their citizens as losers and need to be able to claim some victory before negotiating. What Iran has done to date is very limited, odd how they just damaged some tankers by placing limpet mines at the waterline or above and shot down a drone. Do you think they don't have the capability to do much more damage just with limpet mines? In 1971 Pakistan in one night suffered the loss of 60 thousand tons of shipping from limpet mines, that's likely why the Indian navy is in the Gulf now. Now we get to see if Trump is capable of complicated diplomatic negotiations, I've seen little evidence so far that he is capable of being anything other than a bully. |
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