tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post6243975538592138168..comments2024-03-29T01:07:30.224-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: Saving Vladmir Putin's FaceStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-5110959447087234712017-04-15T02:33:36.977-07:002017-04-15T02:33:36.977-07:00TDS = Trump Derangement Syndrome, although I don&#...TDS = Trump Derangement Syndrome, although I don't know who Dennis is pointing his little finger at.<br /><br />Like Fareed Zakaria critics apparently...<br />https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/liberals-have-to-avoid-trump-derangement-syndrome/2017/04/13/81ff4a7a-2083-11e7-a0a7-8b2a45e3dc84_story.html<br />---<br />I didn’t really believe that there was such a thing as Trump Derangement Syndrome — hatred of President Trump so intense that it impairs people’s judgment.<br />...<br />My Post column was titled, “One missile strike is not a strategy.”<br /><br />From the response on the left, you would have thought I had just endorsed Trump for pope. Otherwise thoughtful columnists described my views as “nonsense” and a sign that the media has “bent over backward” to support Trump.<br />...<br />Liberals have to avoid Trump Derangement Syndrome. If Trump pursues a policy, it cannot axiomatically be wrong, evil and dangerous. <br />...<br />Conservatives seem to understand Trump’s about-face better than liberals. Many of Trump’s strongest backers — Ann Coulter, Michael Savage, Laura Ingraham — are distraught by Trump’s embrace of Obama-like policies. Andrew McCarthy wrote in National Review, “When it came to foreign policy, I was worried that the 2016 election would be a case of Clinton delivering the third Obama term. Instead, we have Trump giving us the third Clinton term.” <br />...<br /> We have to ask ourselves, which would we rather see: Trump reversing himself or Trump relentlessly pursuing his campaign agenda? The first option would be good for the country and the world, though it might save Trump from an ignominious fall. The second would be a disaster for all. It raises the quandary: Do we want what’s better for America or what’s worse for Donald Trump?<br />---Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-34117176652724221322017-04-14T06:33:59.613-07:002017-04-14T06:33:59.613-07:00What does TDS mean??What does TDS mean??Stuart Schneidermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-10206578021929145192017-04-14T06:30:21.097-07:002017-04-14T06:30:21.097-07:00TDSTDSDennishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14962996070458991675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-81368627069952625502017-04-14T05:58:05.252-07:002017-04-14T05:58:05.252-07:00Putin's humiliation isn't Trump's atta...Putin's humiliation isn't Trump's attack (And Clinton would have surely done something similar), and Trump apparently only acted because of images of dead children, while in fact there are hundreds of thousands of murdered children around the world, and some of the killed in Obama's erroneous drone attacks.<br /><br />Putin's humiliation is because he helped Assad destroy thousands of pounds of chemical weapons in Syria after a 2013 crisis of greater proportion, and got Syria to promise to only bomb children with conventional bombs, and now Assad has proven Putin's trust was not warranted, OR proving Putin's word is not worth very much.<br /><br />It is a curious case that the U.S. is now pushing to replace Assad, the same policy that Obama preferred, and that Hillary prefered and would have pushed harder.<br /><br />Will it work this time? Perhaps that new airstike in Afghanistan is one of the cards on the table.<br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_2017_Nangarhar_airstrike<br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GBU-43/B_Massive_Ordnance_Air_Blast<br />The MOAB has been claimed to be the largest conventional bomb ever used in combat after being deployed in Afghanistan on 13 April 2017, but the 22,000 pound Grand Slam earthquake bombs dropped during World War II may have been even heavier.<br /><br />If only we could drop bombs that made mile wide craters without killing children, we'd have ISIS and Assad licked. And then we're back to the Neocon Bush Doctrine of deposing offensive leaders and nation building.<br /><br />And Syria is going to need a lot of money to rebuild. If I was Assad, I'd surrender immediately, although no unconditionally, but on the condition that the U.S. pays for the rebuilding our their country with our oil money.<br /><br />Okay, that wouldn't work, but its basically what we're kind of left with when Assad is gone. We wasted trillions in Iraq, but it'll work this time. Soon we can save $7 billion per year by stopping the subsidizing of health care costs for the poor, we can redirect that savings to more bombs and more nation building. That's what Trump was elected to do, right?<br />http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/4/13/15285162/trump-obamacare-subsidies-lawsuit-threat<br />Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.com