We face a harsh new reality.

[pknopp]

Please link to that. You're LYING, AGAIN. You're favored democrats are the party responsible for EVERY American who is in danger in the world today. Take the blinders off, moron.

You and the Democrats started the mess in Syria and you've shown you'll never learn.

 

[Oddball]

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.

After eight years of roaring silence with Barry the Bombslinger, you shitlib turds have no moral high ground from which to preach.

 

[Stryder50]

War with the entire world........smart......

With elements within a single nation.

I doubt the world would rush to defend the ISI-Taliban.

You are the one who bitched about how the USA hadn't defeated/eliminated Taliban. I'm just showing how it isn't as easy as a simpleton would think.

 

[Concerned American]

You and the Democrats started the mess in Syria and you've shown you'll never learn.

Keep LYING and Deflecting AND contradicting yourself. You've switched sides two or three times in this thread, moron. TROLL ON.

 

[pknopp]

With elements within a single nation.

I doubt the world would rush to defend the ISI-Taliban.

You are the one who bitched about how the USA hadn't defeated/eliminated Taliban.

I did NO such thing. Why the desire to lie?

 

[pknopp]

Keep LYING and Deflecting AND contradicting yourself. You've switched sides two or three times in this thread, moron. TROLL ON.

My position has never changed.

 

[struth]

War with the entire world........smart......

It’s a horrible idea, sadly but it seems every time Trump is elected his got to save us from it

His first term he inherited the worst refugee crisis since w2 because of Obama’s 8 years, and now after xiden four years, we’ve got a massive war in Europe, he had to deal with Hamas and Israel, and we got terrorist back on the rise after xiden’s surrender to them in Afghan

 

[Stryder50]

You and the Democrats started the mess in Syria and you've shown you'll never learn.

Syria has been a mess ever since Islam entered, about 1400 years ago.

 

[Robert W]

Trump ramping up the issue in Syria where we have no business being to start with is indeed an issue.

You mean our soldiers being murdered is none of Trump's business?

 

[Stryder50]

I did NO such thing. Why the desire to lie?

From your post earlier in this thread, #9;
"We wasted billions and many young American lives to get rid of the Taliban in Afghanistan ..."

The one I replied to when presenting info on the ISI

 

[Concerned American]

My position has never changed.

LOL, you have no position, troll. Like Reagan once said. If you stand for nothing, you'll fall for anything. Is it getting hot yet?

 

[pknopp]

Syria has been a mess ever since Islam entered, about 1400 years ago.

And none of our business.

 

[pknopp]

From your post earlier in this thread, #9;
"We wasted billions and many young American lives to get rid of the Taliban in Afghanistan ..."

The one I replied to when presenting info on the ISI

And you took that as me supporting it? LOL

 

[SassyIrishLass]

LOL, you have no position, troll. Like Reagan once said. If you stand for nothing, you'll fall for anything. Is it getting hot yet?

He doesn't have a "side", he's an agitator. Flips sides more than a pancake at a Waffle House

 

[Stryder50]

And you took that as me supporting it? LOL

I take as you supporting attacks upon and destruction of the USA.
A consistent theme of your posts.
Subtext of your avatar.

 

[BluesLegend]

Keep crying about cartel thugs being blown up.

You people are nuts.

Democrat's hate for America is out of the closet.

 

[pknopp]

I take as you supporting attacks upon and destruction of the USA.
A consistent theme of posts.
Subtext of your avatar.
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You've been brainwashed.

 

[Stryder50]

You've been brainwashed.

A lot of projection there, Komrade.

 

[Stann]

1. The US has not forfeited any military edge, duh.
2. There are no "illegal killings" in the Caribbean. We are killing drug runners to save US and EU lives.

We may never know that now. The cover up was very sloppy but most republicans still bought it because trump said it was so. The LIE gets bigger and bigger.

 

[pknopp]

A lot of projection there, Komrade.

Basic Principles of Anarchism

Don't want to accept anything that might want to upset the status quo, eh?