Trump Shows Contempt for the Military and Everyone Else

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Trump Shows Contempt for the Military and Everyone Else

by Jonathan Bernstein at Bloomberg.com

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-09-08/trump-shows-contempt-for-u-s-military-and-u-s-voters

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Donald Trump's answers on Wednesday night rarely reached the level of "wrong." Mostly what he said was incoherent gibberish.

For example, consider his "answers" when asked about the seeming contradictions in his "position" on ISIS. He could not explain his new idea for demanding a plan from "the generals" to defeat Islamic State. Nor would he explain how his old secret plan was going to work. Or why he says he knows more about Islamic State than U.S. generals.

He simply babbled about firing all the current generals. Or about listening to them if they had a better plan. He said nothing at all to show he knew anything about what generals do, or what presidents do, or anything else.

For example: He's still saying "take the oil" as a supposed solution for what to do about Iraq. When challenged (and I don't remember his being challenged on this before), he explained that, well, Iraq has a lot of oil. He didn't supply guidance for how much it would cost in dollars and lives to guard "the oil" indefinitely, or how other nations in the region and allies elsewhere would react if the U.S. acted as an imperial power, extracting resources from conquered provinces. Trump has a line, and he's sticking to it:


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1. K&R

[MineralMan]

2. Trump is contemptible. That's for sure.

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