We face a harsh new reality.

[IM2]

No.

First, the idea of the U.S. Being the entity that decides who leads other country is the complete opposite of freedom.

Second, we now have issues in Syria. Will Democrats support Trump in Syria like they did Obama?

Is ISIS in Syria today? I thought the OP asked for no whataboutsims.

 

[Clipper]

Trump understands that the merger of international drug cartels and narco-states needs a military solution.

There is no way local law enforcement stands a chance against them.

Saving about 180,000 American lives says Trump is right.

Any thoughts on the people who died from cocaine abuse from the 400 tons of the shit peddled here by Hernandez who Uncle Fester Don just pardoned?

All good cuz Fester pardoned one of the biggest narco terrorists in history?

 

[IM2]

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.

2 incorrect comments.

 

[pknopp]

Is ISIS in Syria today? I thought the OP asked for no whataboutsims.

ISIS is simply people who want us out of their countries.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

ISIS is simply people who want us out of their countries.

OMG, ISIS is the militant group of Islam.

Much like the Taliban. Do you ever tire of looking totally ridiculous?

 

[IM2]

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.

Nothing.

 

[Clipper]

OMG, ISIS is the militant group of Islam.

Much like the Taliban. Do you ever tire of looking totally ridiculous?

Speaking of "militant groups". Uncle Donny Fester & his deranged followers are the militant group of the Republican Party.

Now launch into orbit.

 

[Kondor3]

No.

First, the idea of the U.S. Being the entity that decides who leads other country is the complete opposite of freedom.

Given that Maduro lost the election in Venezuela I'm not sure you've got much weight in favor of that argument here.

Second, we now have issues in Syria. Will Democrats support Trump in Syria like they did Obama?

Doubtful.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Speaking of "militant groups". Uncle Donny Fester & his deranged followers are the militant group of the Republican Party.

Now launch into orbit.

That was ignorant. Run along

 

[IM2]

ISIS is simply people who want us out of their countries.

In some cases, yes.

 

[theHawk]

Idaho produces narcotics.

And those people get arrested.

 

[theHawk]

You are the pro-choice leader here.

What?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Thomas Jefferson sent the new US Navy to Tripoli to defend against piracy. And he still went to Congress for a declaration of War

Trump needs to do the same

 

[pknopp]

And those people get arrested.

As should all.

 

[Concerned American]

Speaking of "militant groups". Uncle Donny Fester & his deranged followers are the militant group of the Republican Party.

Now launch into orbit.

LOL, sure, moron. Please link to the last republican that murdered a leftist or attempted an assassination on a democrat political rep. Run along troll.

 

[Clipper]

LOL, sure, moron. Please link to the last republican that murdered a leftist or attempted an assassination on a democrat political rep. Run along troll.

How about J6 when Trump's animals hunted for Pence to drag him off to a gallows, you asswipe?

 

[Concerned American]

How about J6 when Trump's animals hunted for Pence to drag him off to a gallows, you asswipe?

LMAO, sure, that's why the only fatality that day was the result of a summary execution of an unarmed trespasser by a democrat controlled capitol cop. Try again, junior. I know its asking a lot from you, but Please grow up before your next post.

 

[Stann]

LMAO, sure, that's why the only fatality that day was the result of a summary execution of an unarmed trespasser by a democrat controlled capitol cop. Try again, junior. I know its asking a lot from you, but Please grow up before your next post.

She died because she believed in trumps' lies , you sicko.

 

[Concerned American]

She died because she believed in trumps' lies , you sicko.

She died because she was summarily executed for trespass without even a hint of that due process that you demand for illegal immigrant trespassers and terrorist drug runners, Stain. Run along troll.

 

[toobfreak]

We face a harsh new reality.​

Joe Biden has switched to reusable diapers?

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.

But then, democrats subjected us to 30 years of absolute mind-numbing horseshit from Bill Clinton using the Resolute Desk for his daily blowjobs from an unpaid clerk, selling our missile technology to the chinese, stealing from the White House, destroying Bush for actually trying to treat enemy combatants like enemy combatants, to a guy not even born in the country who spent 20 years working for the mob, pals with the Weather Underground, went on to allows millions killed and billions in irreplaceable artifacts be destroyed while he got a Nobel for Peace, spied on and tried to trip up the next administration, spearheaded a campaign of fake news against a sitting president, impeached him TWICE, over a phone call looking into the corruption of their democrat nominee and for a rally turned riot that THEY incited, to raiding his home, setting up a fake committee rigged to only give one outcome with altered evidence with no defense allowed, pursuing multiple false criminal charges that were not even legally sound, rigging their outcomes, stealing an election and bragging about it, then finally, assassinating or trying to assassinate multiple people around Trump trying to destroy him in order to fix your corrupt, evil hold over American politics so you can sell the country out to your paid lobbyists.

Now you wail like children because you are being held accountable screaming that Dems and Repubs should be fast and close buddies and all should just be forgiven.

Meanwhile as we speak, you plot the next attempt at impeaching Trump for not being popular with heads of the DNC like we give a ****.

PS: American military power is for one thing: to protect and advance American security, laws and interests in this world and allowing drug-running scumbags to kill 80,000 Americans a year with narcotics is almost #1 in our list of issues threatening our security, health, laws and interests.