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Originally Posted by Got Stripers
I know the thread will be hijacked in short order, because that apparently is the way this board operates. I think we can all agree on one thing, what is happening world wide by terrorists is tragic, however this travel ban is not what IMHO was needed to beef up our homeland security.
In the fifteen years after 9/11, jihadists have killed 94 people inside the United States. Each of those deaths is a tragedy. The attack in Orlando was the deadliest terrorist attack in the United States since 9/11 and the deadliest mass shooting in American history. However, the attacks are not national catastrophes of the type the United States experienced on 9/11. Instead the death toll has been quite similar to other forms of political—and even non-political—violence Americans face today.
I'm more likely to slip on ice today and kill myself than be killed by a terrorist attack, to put such a black eye on the American Brand by rolling out this typical Trump shoot first and think about it later policy is just stupid. Why not get your cabinet in place first? Why not get yourself educated by sitting down with the people that have an intimate knowledge of the real world first?
I think all he has accomplished is to put people on the streets and maybe that's his twisted plan, direct everyone's attention elsewhere so he (Bannon) can get some other things slipped through the back door. He hasn't made us safer, he's given the not jobs the best recruiting propaganda they could have ever dreamed of and it's the home grown waiting in the wings nuts that they recruit that I'd be more afraid of; not someone coming in from any of those 7 countries with green card or visa.
I guess if they had a Trump golf course and casino, they could have gotten the pass that Saudi did.
His kissing up to and bolstering Putin......OMG don't even get me started on that one.
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Isn't it possible that the reason there have been a small number of terrorist murders, is that we are being aggressive and playing offense?
The Obama administration concluded that these 7 countries were not helping us vet the refugees. Maybe Trump is being too alarmist when he says that poses a threat, maybe he is spot on. But Obama's administration identified these 7 countries very specifically.
Trump says some things that are going very easy on Putin. But the cabinet he is building, looks to me like a group who believes that the way to deal with Putin is from a position of strength.