Donald Trump takes baby steps away from standard neoconservative articles of faith on foreign and military policy. From Ilana Mercer, at lewrockwell.com:
Bless Donald Trump. Inadvertently, by just being Donald, Mr. Trump has delivered more good news to liberty lovers.
In his bid for the presidency, Mr. Trump is not only threatening the Republican establishment, but is forcing a war with the cable news channel that does the Republican regimists’ bidding.
The Fox News Channel backed Genghis Bush’s wars. The Powers That Be at FNC now wish to roger (Ailes) America, again, by delivering the country to neoconservative tool Marco Rubio, or to fool John Kasich (governor from Ohio), or to Ms. Fiorina, whom tacky media types call “Carly.” However, this little lady’s honeyed words conceal a burning desire to commit the country to an arms race with China and Russia.
Not for naught did Scott Walker go from 2 percent in the polls, to zero, to sayonara. Walker, that live wire, picked up his marbles and went home, blaming Trump for making him sad. But like the rest of the establishment’s candidates, Walker had served up the same sub-intelligent, hackneyed lies about the root-causes of the migration problem plaguing Europe.
Syrian, Iraqi and Libyan populations are on the move, the neoconservative posse preaches, because of a failure to remove Bashar Hafez al-Assad, a man who was the source of stability in Syria, much like Saddam Hussein was in Iraq.
Have we learned nothing about the perils of toppling law-and-order dictators, only to see the rise of barbarians worse than their predecessors? Evidently not.
Bar Rand Paul and, to a degree, Donald Trump, all the Republican candidates insist that American exceptionalism lies in leading the world not in technological innovation, comity, commerce and as exemplars of individual rights—but by projecting military power the world over. The US government’s bankruptcy, the candidates see as having no bearing on their own unanimous plans for an arms race with the other super powers and a renewed military offensive in the Middle East.
To continue reading: Donald, Don’t Let Fox News Roger America…Again
To start, the Saker article with the links and comments is going into Neil’s Keepers, my file for long-term keepers for further study; this more worldly overview dwarfs the below.
I believe SLL is not overly fond of the political process and for many good reasons, but since the door has been opened slightly…Here goes. I am not a Dem or Repub or Trump supporter but follow a good bit of this lumbering campaign to 2016. I offer the below link as the one to follow the process, primarily in the Repub party so far. Sundance is for Trump, but his analysis is for all. At the bottem of this link, are 21 other links which contain the analysis building steps; I the #2,3 and 4 are the more structural ones. Some are proTrump so minimize
http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2015/09/25/major-tripwire-alert-north-carolina-gope-change-primary-join-fl-oh-il-march-15th/
The second link is from the same source and is about the last 100 days(Trump’s). Focus on the events, the topics, and the turmoil. Ignore the hype. I want Trump to create the turmoil with the topics so the issues can not be hidden by the candidates, the parties, or the media. Then, maybe something positive will result.
http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2015/09/26/donald-trump-the-first-100-days/
Thanks for the links, will peruse when I get a chance.
What does “Roger” mean?
I believe that refers to Roger Ailes, Chairman and CEO of Fox.