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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIs Trump going to war?
Is he ready to put American lives on the line? Is it really in our national interest? Or is it in someone's personal interest?
The American people do not know. They were never told where our elected leaders were doing business? They could never retrieve the tax returns? They prefer to wander in the dark, it appears?
This seems like it should be a question that every American should be focusing on?
mopinko
(70,208 posts)dems are busy drawing a line in the sand about going to war w/o congress.
i also think it would bring the people into the streets.
kentuck
(111,110 posts)What are we going to say to the people we bomb? "Sorry, we let the kid take the keys to the car?"
Suposedly, the National Security met today for about an hour? I didn't know they still had a National Security team? Didn't Bolton just get fired? Who replaced him?
I'm sure you are right that people would be in the streets. Unfortunately, it seems like there is nothing except total gridlock between the House and Senate and Democrats and Republicans?
mopinko
(70,208 posts)hopefully the military will drag their feet pretty hard.
bolton, coats, brennan, plus walsh, weld and sanford, it might get pretty loud. i dont think he can get away w a sneak attack.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)invading Iran is unlikely.
brooklynite
(94,727 posts)He's good at bluster and threats. Not much else
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)Got to keep up the tough guy big leader bee ess.
global1
(25,270 posts)or in some way maintaining his presidency. So is it a coincidence that there should be an incident that could provoke a war with iran? Is it a coincidence that John Bolton was fired by Trump just before this incident? Wouldn't Trump benefit from some sort of war with Iran? Being a war president - does he think that the American Public would come to his support for such a war? Or is he just thinking that maybe he could avoid having to be on a debate stage with the Dem nominee? Or is he just thinking that he could suspend the 2020 election?
I just don't trust anything that's happening on the world stage anymore least alone Trump. Desperate people do desperate things. This guy has his hands on the nuclear button. He only thinks about himself. I just hope that the people that surround themselves around Trump can hold him down.
This is really a scary period we are going through and i won't feel safe until the Nov 2020 election and a Dem is in charge. We need adults in the room and not some raving lunatic.
kentuck
(111,110 posts)...may already be under the spell? To them, it's just another day in FantasyWorld.
Initech
(100,102 posts)They brutally murder a journalist, not a peep. But attacking their oil supply? OMG!!! DECLARE WAR NOW!!!
gordianot
(15,243 posts)A long shot maybe it might be his only hope. The counter would be Eisenhower and Nixon who claimed they would end wars if elected. Trump by now should know it may be his last card.
genxlib
(5,534 posts)Is he just toying with the stock market and oil futures? Would any of us put it past him?
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Isn't it curious how little we've heard from conservatives about Trump ceding the authority to put the military into action to MBS? Remember how jacked out of shape conservatives got when U.S. troops participated in NATO or UN military maneuvers because they might be ordered around by officers who weren't Americans? But going to war on the say-so of MBS is okey-dokey with them.
kentuck
(111,110 posts)There's money to be made in the Kingdom.
htuttle
(23,738 posts)Apparently, we added another Suzerain over the weekend. Now we seem to have at least two bosses. Putin and MBS.