Attacking Trump for the Few Sensible Things He Says

[Sir X]

The European Union has a gross domestic product that is bigger than that of the United States (on a purchasing power parity basis). Most of these countries also provide their citizens with benefits that Americans don't have, like real universal healthcare, subsidized child care, paid vacations averaging more than five weeks, and free or low-cost college tuition. Part of the reason that they get so much more for their tax dollars than we do is that they are not spending nearly as much on trying to police the world — although their security problems have increased considerably since Washington (with a lot of help from EU countries) turned the Middle East and North Africa into a hellish mess that exports more terrorism and refugees than ever before.

In any case, it's a tough sell for working and middle-class voters here that their tax dollars should pay for Europe's defense. Or that we should risk a nuclear war with Russia if it were to invade Estonia — which is the principle for which Trump has been so reviled for lately, for not defending, by the (liberal/conservative) foreign policy establishment.


http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publis...le_74786.shtml

[Sir X]

The Myth of Trump’s Alternative Worldview

Donald Trump likes to point out that Hillary Clinton supported the war in Iraq and he didn’t. Well, it’s relatively easy to be against the Iraq War at this point, when virtually everyone except Dick Cheney admits that it was a terrible decision. But Trump claims that he opposed the war before the invasion took place in March 2003.

The only public statement available, however, shows the opposite. Asked by Howard Stern on September 11, 2002, whether he favored a US invasion of Iraq, Trump replied: “Yeah, I guess so. You know, I wish it was, I wish the first time it was done correctly.” By “correctly,” he could only mean that George H.W. Bush should have pursued the war to Baghdad and ousted Saddam Hussein.

https://www.thenation.com/article/th...ive-worldview/