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In the two years that Trump has been actively campaigning for President there have been five major terrorist attacks in Europe, 3 in France, 1 each in Belgium and Germany. In addition there have been a number of other minor attacks and the total number of casualties is over 300 dead 1200 wounded.
In response Europe has not succumbed to fear but embraced and continued to take in large numbers of refugees, many more times than the US.
In a time of real crises Roosevelt calmed the nation by reminding it that it had nothing to fear but fear itself.
Even though during the same time period the US has a statistical negligible exposure to terrorist attacks Trump has stoked fear and like a coward has cut and run. Europe has stood up and America is now cowering.
Here is what now haunts the sentient part of the United States; Should the US be the target of another major terrorist attack (which his actions have made more likely) this coward will not be looking for multilateral approaches to fight ISIS but turn to the military and demand Tactical Nuclear responses.
By inserting Bannon into the NSC and taking out the Joint Chief and the Defense Secretary he is politicising weapons of mass destruction and turning the US into an unstable military power that operates on a hair trigger of fear and reaction.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)grantcart
(53,061 posts)Starts small and keeps gathering mass.
We don't have any idea of how much crap is going to build on this.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)"See? We told you the great Satan United States hates Muslims! Join us and fight!"
Real forward thinking there, President Trump. Did anyone who had a hand in this fiasco think for two seconds about the consequences, or think to consult someone with some actual foreign policy experience?