I guess you can look at it as the glass half full or half empty. It's like when the former CIA Director, Michael Hayden, declared that the CIA would refuse to engage in waterboarding.
You can see that as a good thing-if he asks for it the CIA won't do it. Or you can wonder if you want a President where you have to put your faith in the CIA having superior judgment to Donald Trump.
Now the Pentagon has smacked down the latest Trump absurdity. That's a good thing. But it's also very uneasy to think that the Pentagon feels the need to weigh in on politics in this way.
They're right to do it in my view but that they feel the need is already quite worrisome.
"Pentagon rebukes Trump proposal for more airstrikes."
'It is completely apples and oranges,' one retired Army general says.
"Donald Trump's assertion Monday that more airstrikes are needed in Iraq and Syria to prevent terrorist attacks like the mass shooting in Orlando drew rebukes from the Pentagon and others across the political spectrum who have prosecuted the war on terrorism — including some who warned it could make matters worse."
"We have to really increase the bombings," the presumptive Republican presidential nominee told "Fox and Friends" after he was asked about the Islamic State's claim of credit for the attack by an American Muslim who pledged his allegiance to the group during the massacre that killed 49 people and wounded 53.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/donald-trump-defense-airstrikes-orlando-224289#ixzz4BXkLKlTN
You hear that, Bernie Bros, who are peddling the dangerous fiction that Trump would be less 'interventionist' than Hillary Clinton?
He is criticizing her for Iraq and Libya-and lying claiming he didn't support these actions-while calling for airstrikes in Iraq and Syria to prevent a mass shooting in Orlando, Florida.
Still want to say you'll except a wall to keep the brown people out if it will stop Hillary style interventionism in the world?
So that is the one real silver lining in Trump's absurd speech yesterday.
In any case, Trump's claim that bombing Syria and Iraq would have prevented a homegrown terrorist attack is nonsensical.
“I fundamentally disagree," said retired Army Lt. Gen. Mick Bednarek, who served as the chief U.S. military adviser in Iraq from 2013 to 2015. "The bottom line is [more bombing] has absolutely no bearing on individuals like Omar Mateen in Orlando, who obviously had some mental issues — like his absolute hatred of gays, lesbians and transgender community. Just wantonly increasing bombing against extremist radical groups in Iraq, Syria, etc. is not going to have a bearing on individuals in the United States and change their behavior.”
"It is completely apples and oranges," Bednarek added. "I think the presumptive Republican nominee has really not thought through second-order effects of his perspective of what would truly make a difference to stem the tide of these challenges."
You can see that as a good thing-if he asks for it the CIA won't do it. Or you can wonder if you want a President where you have to put your faith in the CIA having superior judgment to Donald Trump.
Now the Pentagon has smacked down the latest Trump absurdity. That's a good thing. But it's also very uneasy to think that the Pentagon feels the need to weigh in on politics in this way.
They're right to do it in my view but that they feel the need is already quite worrisome.
"Pentagon rebukes Trump proposal for more airstrikes."
'It is completely apples and oranges,' one retired Army general says.
"Donald Trump's assertion Monday that more airstrikes are needed in Iraq and Syria to prevent terrorist attacks like the mass shooting in Orlando drew rebukes from the Pentagon and others across the political spectrum who have prosecuted the war on terrorism — including some who warned it could make matters worse."
"We have to really increase the bombings," the presumptive Republican presidential nominee told "Fox and Friends" after he was asked about the Islamic State's claim of credit for the attack by an American Muslim who pledged his allegiance to the group during the massacre that killed 49 people and wounded 53.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/donald-trump-defense-airstrikes-orlando-224289#ixzz4BXkLKlTN
You hear that, Bernie Bros, who are peddling the dangerous fiction that Trump would be less 'interventionist' than Hillary Clinton?
He is criticizing her for Iraq and Libya-and lying claiming he didn't support these actions-while calling for airstrikes in Iraq and Syria to prevent a mass shooting in Orlando, Florida.
Still want to say you'll except a wall to keep the brown people out if it will stop Hillary style interventionism in the world?
So that is the one real silver lining in Trump's absurd speech yesterday.
In any case, Trump's claim that bombing Syria and Iraq would have prevented a homegrown terrorist attack is nonsensical.
“I fundamentally disagree," said retired Army Lt. Gen. Mick Bednarek, who served as the chief U.S. military adviser in Iraq from 2013 to 2015. "The bottom line is [more bombing] has absolutely no bearing on individuals like Omar Mateen in Orlando, who obviously had some mental issues — like his absolute hatred of gays, lesbians and transgender community. Just wantonly increasing bombing against extremist radical groups in Iraq, Syria, etc. is not going to have a bearing on individuals in the United States and change their behavior.”
"It is completely apples and oranges," Bednarek added. "I think the presumptive Republican nominee has really not thought through second-order effects of his perspective of what would truly make a difference to stem the tide of these challenges."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/donald-trump-defense-airstrikes-orlando-224289#ixzz4BXmXHAPV
Then there is the unfortunate preference of Trump and other GOPers of crediting ISIS with every lone wolf attack within the US.
Then there is the unfortunate preference of Trump and other GOPers of crediting ISIS with every lone wolf attack within the US.
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