Trump threatens to launch attacks in Nigeria over ‘killing of Christians’

[CrusaderFrank]

Isolationist Trump will stay out of foreign intervention, they said.

Yeah and you believed Biden was running things too

 

[Blaster]

Trump will stay out of foreign intervention, they said.

So what's your point?

 

[Conservative from Georgia]

So what's your point?

That he lied? I hate when people pretend they don’t know what the point is.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

As to this sudden, and very cynical concern about the Christian population.
Christians were not a demonstrated concern when Yugoslavia broke up and Christians were bombed to benefit Islamic forces.
Christians were not a demonstrated concern when Syria was handed over to Al Qaeda head choppers who immediately took to killing them.
Christians were not a demonstrated concern when funding the IDF as it targeted churches in Lebanon, Syria, Gaza, and the West Bank. During services no less.
Oil
Southern Nigeria is where the oil is. That this is where the Christians are is happenstance.

Yeah, the oil is near.

 

[task0778]

So, are we the world's policemen? No question that somebody should stop the killing wherever and whoever is doing it. But should it be us doing it? And what are the criteria for intervention? It's supposed to be done if America's best interests are threatened, no? Did we sign some kind of treaty to do that? How much of our aid to that country is actually helping the people that need it most? IOW, who gets hurt if we stop all aid? What else can we do short of military action? If we intervene militarily, sooner or later an American will be killed; under what circumstances should we expose them to that possibility?

It seems to me that even though the president is the CIC, military intervention ought to be with the advice and consent of the Congress, otherwise we should stay the hell out. We all know that Congress has the backbone of a worm, but sending American troops into harm's way ought not to be a political football. If they won't support an intervention somewhere then IMHO we shouldn't intervene with military action. If the situation is clearly a threat to America's best interests then the president can and should authorize a temporary intervention until Congress supports it, and I believe current law provides the president with that option. But whatever the deadline is for 'temporary' action, the president should pull out if Congress does nothing.

 

[JWBooth]

So, are we the world's policemen?

Ain’t that what MAGA voted for.

 

[Edgetho]

I hope we go in there and wipe these terrorists out. Obviously, the HAMAS supporting crowd will not approve.

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“US President Donald Trump has threatened to carry out attacks in Nigeria in response to purported anti-Christian violence, saying he instructed the recently renamed Department of War to “prepare for possible action”.

In a social media post on Saturday, Trump said the United States would immediately cut off all assistance to the African country “if the Nigerian Government continues to allow the killing of Christians”.”

Trump threatens to launch attacks in Nigeria over ‘killing of Christians’

Nigerian government denies US president's claim of not stemming 'horrible atrocities' against Christians.

www.aljazeera.com

You could have saved yourself some time by just typing 'dimocrap scum' instead.

 

[task0778]

Ain’t that what MAGA voted for.

I don't think so, some of them maybe. You act like everybody that voted for Trump supports everything he says and does. Not so, some of us voted for him over the ridiculous candidate the democrats offered as a choice. Military intervention has a way of escalating out of control, history tells us that. I think we ought to be very careful about the use of our military, and we ought to have a damn good reason for exposing our troops to danger and coming home in a coffin.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

The correct response was "the Pope needs to call a new Crusade"

 

[Zincwarrior]

I hope we go in there and wipe these terrorists out. Obviously, the HAMAS supporting crowd will not approve.

View attachment 1179943

“US President Donald Trump has threatened to carry out attacks in Nigeria in response to purported anti-Christian violence, saying he instructed the recently renamed Department of War to “prepare for possible action”.

In a social media post on Saturday, Trump said the United States would immediately cut off all assistance to the African country “if the Nigerian Government continues to allow the killing of Christians”.”

Trump threatens to launch attacks in Nigeria over ‘killing of Christians’

Nigerian government denies US president's claim of not stemming 'horrible atrocities' against Christians.

www.aljazeera.com

How did that work out in Afghanistan and Iraq? How did Trump do in Gaza?

 

[el midgetron]

The real threat here is to withhold aid from Nigeria. That alone will be all it takes for Nigeria to clean up its act.

Frankly, I think we should withhold the aid no matter what and also wipe out the Islamic terrorists. It would be a win win.

 

[el midgetron]

How did that work out in Afghanistan and Iraq? How did Trump do in Gaza?

What did Trump do in GAZA?

 

[Dekster]

Nigeria announces it is building a giant rare earth minerals processing plant and suddenly Trump shows interest in attacking a democratic nation in the name of god. How very predictable.

 

[leftwinger]

If the U.S. goes into southern Nigeria (where most of the Christians reside), it will not be fast and sweet. It will be vicious though. The U.S. will be up against guerilla warfare with religious fanatics. We were bogged down in Afghanistan for 20 years, in essentially desert country and never changed it. In Nigeria it will be jungle and swamp warfare. In Vietnam, we were bogged down from 1955 (advisors initially) to 1973. In jungles the enemy isn't just the enemy fighter who can be hidden just a few feet from you, its various venomous snakes, Nile Crocodiles, hippos, leopards, hundreds of species of biting ants, and of course, mosquitoes, endless mosquitoes. Many of the people there reside in depressing poverty.
What the U.S. should do is give the Christian population large amounts of weapons and munitions along with a good deal of training. All men and women of fighting age need to be highly trained and have U.S. military advisors with them in the conflict.

Then spray them from the air. If we got extra Military, put them to work. No one ever defends the Christians. It is heartbreaking. THX Obiden.

 

[leftwinger]

It will be air strikes and cruise missiles. No boots on the ground.

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Go back to agent orange for all I care. I just dont want to pay for it? Give real Christians a fast pass over here? Sigh. When does it end?

 

[EvilCat Breath]

If the U.S. goes into southern Nigeria (where most of the Christians reside), it will not be fast and sweet. It will be vicious though. The U.S. will be up against guerilla warfare with religious fanatics. We were bogged down in Afghanistan for 20 years, in essentially desert country and never changed it. In Nigeria it will be jungle and swamp warfare. In Vietnam, we were bogged down from 1955 (advisors initially) to 1973. In jungles the enemy isn't just the enemy fighter who can be hidden just a few feet from you, its various venomous snakes, Nile Crocodiles, hippos, leopards, hundreds of species of biting ants, and of course, mosquitoes, endless mosquitoes. Many of the people there reside in depressing poverty.
What the U.S. should do is give the Christian population large amounts of weapons and munitions along with a good deal of training. All men and women of fighting age need to be highly trained and have U.S. military advisors with them in the conflict.

May as well be fighting in Dearborn Michigan!

 

[leftwinger]

Nigeria announces it is building a giant rare earth minerals processing plant and suddenly Trump shows interest in attacking a democratic nation in the name of god. How very predictable.

Got it. You're OK with marauding hordes of Muslim savages burying Christian girls alive (after).

You missed the point, again.

 

[candycorn]

Weren't we a better nation when the president wasn't issuing threats on social media?

 

[leftwinger]

So, are we the world's policemen? No question that somebody should stop the killing wherever and whoever is doing it. But should it be us doing it? And what are the criteria for intervention? It's supposed to be done if America's best interests are threatened, no? Did we sign some kind of treaty to do that? How much of our aid to that country is actually helping the people that need it most? IOW, who gets hurt if we stop all aid? What else can we do short of military action? If we intervene militarily, sooner or later an American will be killed; under what circumstances should we expose them to that possibility?

It seems to me that even though the president is the CIC, military intervention ought to be with the advice and consent of the Congress, otherwise we should stay the hell out. We all know that Congress has the backbone of a worm, but sending American troops into harm's way ought not to be a political football. If they won't support an intervention somewhere then IMHO we shouldn't intervene with military action. If the situation is clearly a threat to America's best interests then the president can and should authorize a temporary intervention until Congress supports it, and I believe current law provides the president with that option. But whatever the deadline is for 'temporary' action, the president should pull out if Congress does nothing.

Where is worthless NATO or the dirty UN? You make good points. But while we talk....heads are cut off.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

The correct response was "the Pope needs to call a new Crusade"

Exactly. That is, instead of putting prayer rooms in the Vatican. Of course this is going to develop into an all out holy war, unless Europe and the Americas completely fold to Islam. Europe is close now. Muslims are comfortable wanting to get rid of the British flag and giving up their daughters to rape gangs. All they need is a wholesale slaughter of non muslims to seal the deal.
Germany isn't far behind and France is gasping.