We face a harsh new reality.

[pknopp]

I did not support Obama's involvement in Syria.

Democrats over all did. Recall, Gabbard was crushed over questioning it.

 

[Hafar1014]

As recently as a decade ago, it would not have been hard to unite a broad majority of Republicans and Democrats around a shared idea of what America's military power should be for.

Defense of the homeland. Deterrence of would-be aggressors. Cooperation with treaty allies and protection of kindred democracies confronting common foes. Humanitarian aid and relief. The security of the global commons: sea lanes, air corridors, undersea cables, digital networks. Upholding the laws of war.

In sum, the ability to prevent war wherever possible and win it whenever necessary — all for the sake of a safer, more open, rules-based world.

The Trump administration brings a starkly different mind-set to the issue. Out with the Department of Defense; back to the Department of War. Well-established rules of engagement have yielded to blowing up small boats on the high seas. In place of standing with Ukraine’s embattled democracy against Russia’s invasion, the administration has adopted a course of moral equivalence between the two sides while seeking profits from the war through arms sales and mineral deals.

Opinion | A Free World Needs a Strong America

Preventing a world where dictators can attack at will requires a military that has the right tools, the right tactics and the right culture.

www.nytimes.com

Before launching in to the usual personal attacks, dismissive deflections, whataboutisms, and disparagements of the source, I ask a question of those who disagree with the content of the editorial. What, IYO, did the authors get wrong?

I don't want to limit the scope of the discussion to the regime's activities in the Caribbean, but is this not true?

Well-established rules of engagement have yielded to blowing up small boats on the high seas.

Democrats have become the party of socialism open borders defenders of criminals, inserting the state into our personal lives systemic corruption in MInn. a senile president forged orders, destructive energy policies, gender absurdity, political lawfare and you think Trump is the problem?
Youre the problem

 

[kyzr]

Then why hasn't the regime explained their legal justification to Congress.

They have.

Trump Offers First Legal Justification for Venezuela Boat Strike

The 48-hour War Powers report claims the president acted on the basis of his Article II authority as an act of “self-defense.”

www.lawfaremedia.org

 

[theHawk]

Mr. Trump and his administration are grievously wrong to think the “America First” approach they’ve adopted meets the moment. America cannot adequately defend itself and its vital interests unless it recovers the strategies and instincts that served it well in its greatest triumph of the past century — not World War II, but the Cold War.

The phrase “Cold War mind-set” is usually meant as an insult, sometimes with good reason. Stretches of that long struggle were marked by political paranoia, nuclear brinkmanship and ideological Manichaeism that nobody should want to repeat. There were blunders and fiascos, none greater than the war in Vietnam.

Yet it is worth remembering that our victory in the Cold War didn’t come at a cost of more than one million American casualties, as World War II did. The architects of the Cold War understood that the country’s future security required engagement, not isolation, and that the primary purpose of military power was the prevention of war through deterrence, alliances and international legitimacy — hence the name the Department of Defense, not War.

That was a bunch of nothing.

Not a word on actual policy and what should be different. Complaining about the name being changed to Department of War isn’t a ******* argument, it’s whining like a little *****.

 

[berg80]

Keep crying about cartel thugs being blown up.

You people are nuts.

Is that how you de-humanize people to justify their murder? Calling them "cartel thugs." Where is the evidence that they are members of a cartel?

 

[Votto]

As recently as a decade ago, it would not have been hard to unite a broad majority of Republicans and Democrats around a shared idea of what America's military power should be for.

Defense of the homeland. Deterrence of would-be aggressors. Cooperation with treaty allies and protection of kindred democracies confronting common foes. Humanitarian aid and relief. The security of the global commons: sea lanes, air corridors, undersea cables, digital networks. Upholding the laws of war.

In sum, the ability to prevent war wherever possible and win it whenever necessary — all for the sake of a safer, more open, rules-based world.

The Trump administration brings a starkly different mind-set to the issue. Out with the Department of Defense; back to the Department of War. Well-established rules of engagement have yielded to blowing up small boats on the high seas. In place of standing with Ukraine’s embattled democracy against Russia’s invasion, the administration has adopted a course of moral equivalence between the two sides while seeking profits from the war through arms sales and mineral deals.

Opinion | A Free World Needs a Strong America

Preventing a world where dictators can attack at will requires a military that has the right tools, the right tactics and the right culture.

www.nytimes.com

Before launching in to the usual personal attacks, dismissive deflections, whataboutisms, and disparagements of the source, I ask a question of those who disagree with the content of the editorial. What, IYO, did the authors get wrong?

I don't want to limit the scope of the discussion to the regime's activities in the Caribbean, but is this not true?

Well-established rules of engagement have yielded to blowing up small boats on the high seas.

The country is just about bankrupt.

Hang in there as it will not soon matter.

 

[berg80]

That was a bunch of nothing.

Not a word on actual policy and what should be different. Complaining about the name being changed to Department of War isn’t a ******* argument, it’s whining like a little *****.

Mr. Trump and his administration are grievously wrong to think the “America First” approach they’ve adopted meets the moment. America cannot adequately defend itself and its vital interests unless it recovers the strategies and instincts that served it well in its greatest triumph of the past century — not World War II, but the Cold War.

Put your thinking cap on and remove the hair across your ass.

 

[berg80]

The country is just about bankrupt.

We agree about something at last. Government debt, globally, is a real threat to international stability. trump is making the problem much worse.

 

[pknopp]

We agree about something at last. Government debt, globally, is a real threat to international stability. trump is making the problem much worse.

As did Biden, Obama and Bush before him.

 

[berg80]

They have.

Trump Offers First Legal Justification for Venezuela Boat Strike

The 48-hour War Powers report claims the president acted on the basis of his Article II authority as an act of “self-defense.”

www.lawfaremedia.org

My mistake. I should have specified a "credible" legal defense.

 

[Votto]

We agree about something at last. Government debt, globally, is a real threat to international stability. trump is making the problem much worse.

And you will be an ardent advocate of fiscal responsibility until your puppet masters obtain power

Yea, that is how government works.

Thanks for playing.

 

[berg80]

As did Biden, Obama and Bush before him.

Of those prez's only Bush based a deficit ballooning tax cut on the false assertion it would reduce the deficit.

 

[pknopp]

Of those prez's only Bush based a deficit ballooning tax cut on the false assertion it would reduce the deficit.

And Obama extended it.

 

[Darkwind]

Is that how you de-humanize people to justify their murder? Calling them "cartel thugs." Where is the evidence that they are members of a cartel?

You mean dehumanize, like calling a baby a zygote?

 

[luiza]

Well-established rules of engagement have yielded to blowing up small boats on the high seas.

Excellent solution .
It's one excellent way of eliminating drug smugglers who murder and ruin others .
It's amazing that you admit that you support drug traffickers and their right to admonishment before being blown to smithereens .

You are what we call surplus to requirement in a good and healthy system where decent people care for others and not for your soiled brand of selfish sentimentalism .

 

[jknowgood]

As recently as a decade ago, it would not have been hard to unite a broad majority of Republicans and Democrats around a shared idea of what America's military power should be for.

Defense of the homeland. Deterrence of would-be aggressors. Cooperation with treaty allies and protection of kindred democracies confronting common foes. Humanitarian aid and relief. The security of the global commons: sea lanes, air corridors, undersea cables, digital networks. Upholding the laws of war.

In sum, the ability to prevent war wherever possible and win it whenever necessary — all for the sake of a safer, more open, rules-based world.

The Trump administration brings a starkly different mind-set to the issue. Out with the Department of Defense; back to the Department of War. Well-established rules of engagement have yielded to blowing up small boats on the high seas. In place of standing with Ukraine’s embattled democracy against Russia’s invasion, the administration has adopted a course of moral equivalence between the two sides while seeking profits from the war through arms sales and mineral deals.

Opinion | A Free World Needs a Strong America

Preventing a world where dictators can attack at will requires a military that has the right tools, the right tactics and the right culture.

www.nytimes.com

Before launching in to the usual personal attacks, dismissive deflections, whataboutisms, and disparagements of the source, I ask a question of those who disagree with the content of the editorial. What, IYO, did the authors get wrong?

I don't want to limit the scope of the discussion to the regime's activities in the Caribbean, but is this not true?

Well-established rules of engagement have yielded to blowing up small boats on the high seas.

Lol, you're really butt hurt that you loons can't spread lies and get away with it anymore. Your good ole days are over, and so is your party. If you can't get away with lying, you're done!

 

[pknopp]

You mean dehumanize, like calling a baby a zygote?

I'm pro-life but when a zygote, it is a zygote. A fetus is a fetus. It doesn't mean any of them should be killed but the descriptions are accurate.

 

[westwall]

As recently as a decade ago, it would not have been hard to unite a broad majority of Republicans and Democrats around a shared idea of what America's military power should be for.

Defense of the homeland. Deterrence of would-be aggressors. Cooperation with treaty allies and protection of kindred democracies confronting common foes. Humanitarian aid and relief. The security of the global commons: sea lanes, air corridors, undersea cables, digital networks. Upholding the laws of war.

In sum, the ability to prevent war wherever possible and win it whenever necessary — all for the sake of a safer, more open, rules-based world.

The Trump administration brings a starkly different mind-set to the issue. Out with the Department of Defense; back to the Department of War. Well-established rules of engagement have yielded to blowing up small boats on the high seas. In place of standing with Ukraine’s embattled democracy against Russia’s invasion, the administration has adopted a course of moral equivalence between the two sides while seeking profits from the war through arms sales and mineral deals.

Opinion | A Free World Needs a Strong America

Preventing a world where dictators can attack at will requires a military that has the right tools, the right tactics and the right culture.

www.nytimes.com

Before launching in to the usual personal attacks, dismissive deflections, whataboutisms, and disparagements of the source, I ask a question of those who disagree with the content of the editorial. What, IYO, did the authors get wrong?

I don't want to limit the scope of the discussion to the regime's activities in the Caribbean, but is this not true?

Well-established rules of engagement have yielded to blowing up small boats on the high seas.

Non flagged vessels on the high seas are classified as STATELESS, this AUTOMATICALLY ASSUMED to be engaged in criminal or terroristic activity, and thus not protected by ANY international law.

In fact international law says they are the equivalent of pirates, and can be sunk on sight.

DURRRRRR

Do you silly people ever do any research?

 

[jknowgood]

The Monroe Doctrine doesn't justify extra judicial killings of humans in boats.

Just think of them as a fetus.

 

[Seymour Flops]

Before launching in to the usual personal attacks, dismissive deflections, whataboutisms, and disparagements of the source, I ask a question of those who disagree with the content of the editorial. What, IYO, did the authors get wrong?

I don't want to limit the scope of the discussion to the regime's activities in the Caribbean, but is this not true?

Well-established rules of engagement have yielded to blowing up small boats on the high seas.

That one is not true. There were no "well-established rules of engagement" that prevented a president from defending the country against high speed boats intent on delivering poison to our nation's citizens (and illegals).

If you believe that such well-established rules exist, quote them with a link. Be sure to quote the exact lines in the rules that forbade what Trump is doing to defend us.

This one is also false, since you are asking:

In place of standing with Ukraine’s embattled democracy against Russia’s invasion, the administration has adopted a course of moral equivalence between the two sides while seeking profits from the war through arms sales and mineral deals.

There is no democracy in Ukraine, since the dictator of Ukraine has refused to hold elections. Trump is the only world leader working for the interests of the people of Ukraine, which is best served by an end to the war.

It was both parties during the previous administration that pushed for arm sales (and giveaways of our own arms, leading us to purchase more), because both parties are maxed out recipients of campaign donations from the arms industry, not to mention lucrative sinecures in the form of jobs as consultants and lobbyists waiting for them when they retire from Congress.