Bashar al-Assad, Vladimir Putin and President Obama, make decisions fearing political blowback. Children and women in war zones fear being blown-up.
With no understanding of international affairs or the tactics of war, other than probably cheating at the game Battleship, Donald Trump has shown no understanding in any of the debates about the American involvement in Mosul and Syria to rid the area of ISIS or ISIL). As part of his limited talking points, he has again and again talked about the “stupidity of our leaders” because we let our enemies know when we plan to strike. Donald, I know this may be a foreign concept to you but it is called, humanitarianism. Unlike Putin and Assad whom Donald thinks show strength through murder, President Obama has chosen mercy over murder.
Does Mr. Trump not think that military strategist who comprise the Joint Chiefs of Staff have not discussed the option? I am embarrassed that we have a presidential candidate who brags about hidden negotiations to construct Chinese material laden buildings, but cannot conceive that optional alternatives are secretly considered.
Hundreds of civilians have been killed in Aleppo in the past two weeks because of Russian and Syrian airstrikes. Assad calls it “cleaning” per a report in the Russian Newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda, www.cnn.com/.... I fail to see the nobility in blotting out human life as if it were a spill on a Persian rug. Have mistakes been made by the current administration, you bet, but mistakes made by the ignorant leadership of Donald would be catastrophic. He has demonstrated no grasp of the issue and probably could not find Aleppo on a map marked by an arrow that read ‘you are here.’ Like a little boy who pulls his sister’s ponytail, a blank stare when caught will not suffice, ask Gary Johnson,
I defy any Trump supporter to give me five lines of transcript citing a stump speech, debate answer or press conference that gives a coherent plan to defeat ISIS. This country allowed Ronald Reagan to bumper sticker speak his way into eight years of occupying the Whitehouse; “make my day,” or “trust but verify” and his famous misquote “facts are stupid things” misquoting John Adams who said, “facts are stubborn things.” The middle class is still suffering from “trickle down economics” as he laid the groundwork for its thirty-year path to destruction.
Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Alex Jones and most of the right-wing radio hierarchy uses this constant trope of we must label middle eastern terrorist, “radical Islamic terrorist.” Somehow the latest bumper sticker talk will make the enemy cower in fear and the red, white and blue will gain superhuman strength and defeat the enemy. What purpose other than to incite and assist as a recruitment tool does the label serve? Did we shoot straighter in World War II by derogatorily referring to the Germans as krauts or lob grenades with more accuracy at the Japanese by calling them nips? No.
Thankfully and hopefully we have a present and future President who will be more concerned about result than effect.
Vote 2016!