Donald Trump: On The Road To War

Last updated on: March 1, 2017 at 12:59 pm by John WL Berry

Donald Trump: On The Road To War 2017-03-01T12:59:55-04:00 John WL Berry

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As Trump prepares to send troops to Syria, something some delusional Christian friends assured me would “never happen” as I insisted otherwise, we need to be worried about his militarism and views on the military. While he hopes to build a bigger military and use it in the Middle East, he is also contemptuous of the people who built our military, of those who served, and of those who are the real experts. Recall that Trump had the audacity to say that:

“I know more ISIS than the generals do, believe me. I would bomb the shit out of them. I would just bomb those suckers. And, that’s right, I’d blow up the pipes. I’d blow up the refineries. I’d blow up every single inch. There would be nothing left. And you know what? You’ll get Exxon to come in there, and in two months — have you ever seen these guys how good they are, the great oil companies? They’ll rebuild that sucker brand new. It’ll be beautiful. And I’d ring it, and I’d take the oil.”

Trump assured us for almost two years that he had a plan to defeat ISIS in 30 days. He did not. He told us then in an interview with Fox News in May 2015:

“I don’t want the enemy to know what I’m doing. Unfortunately, I’ll probably have to tell at some point, but there is a method of defeating them quickly and effectively and having total victory.”

He added: “All I can tell you it is a foolproof way of winning, and I’m not talking about what some people would say, but it is a foolproof way of winning the war with ISIS.”

But as we now know he was lying and only recently assigned his generals the task of coming up with a plan to defeat ISIS within 30 days. If their plan fails, and it will, then he can blame them and Trump’s conservative followers will conveniently forget that he lied to them and said he had already developed a plan to defeat ISIS.

In the past Trump has asked why we cannot use nuclear weapons. This week he again insulted everyone who has legitimately served in the military and those people who have spent their lives studying war by saying to the nations governors:

“We have to win. We have to start winning wars again. I have to say, when I was young, in high school and college, everybody used to say we never lost a war. We never lost a war. You remember, some of you were right there with me, you remember, America never lost.”

POTUS then went on to claim that the military isn’t interested in winning a fight.

“We never win and we don’t fight to win,” he exclaimed. “We don’t fight to win. We’ve either got to win or don’t fight it at all.”

America needs to be worried about his cavalier attitude toward the military and war. They need to remember that America actually did lose wars in the past. And they need to remember that the same delusional thinking told us that the Iraq war would last mere months and that the Iraqi’s would pay our costs.

Conservatives and Trump supporters need to speak out or they need to be telling us, in complete sentences and coherent thoughts, why they think this is good. You were not silent before the election, let’s hear from you now. Maybe you could start with that lie about having a plan to defeat ISIS.

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