rstrong wrote: Thu Aug 17, 2017 2:06 pm
Gwynne Dyer -
Trump: the Reagan gambit?
In October 1983, US President Ronald Reagan had a little problem. A massive truck bomb had killed 241 American Marines in their barracks at Beirut airport. That was more than a quarter of the total American force deployed as 'peacekeepers' to Lebanon - a deployment that had already become controversial in the United States. So Reagan had some explaining to do.
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Reagan badly needed a political distraction.
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On October 25, precisely two days after the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut, the US military began a full-scale invasion of Grenada on Reagan's orders. It was one of history's most one-sided battles - only 19 Americans killed, although the US handed out 5,000 medals for merit and valour - but it did the trick.
I believe our ambassador had just left the building
I continue to blame the actor less and less the more I know about the evil surrounding him. From negotiating as private citizens to keep the hostages in Iran until the Inauguration Day photo op, wars on education and the middle class, sponsored terrorism in Afghanistan and all over South and Central America he was surrounded by evil people feeding him bumper sticker sized soundbites that Ronnie and the barely educated people could understand and salute.
he was a pretty simple man who had a lot of trouble with associates and a total inability to see long range consequences. Remember that it was a low budget made for tv movie about nuclear war that changed his mind about nukes.
trump is so very different. he is a fuck through and through. It doesn't matter who is around him and he doesn't have a clue what he's doing. big man has never run anything, he has just used money to pay others to make him money - legal and not so legal is of no concern.
I believe that this may be looking less and less like the descriptions I keep seeing of, "good times", "fun times"," interesting times" and more and more like we have an uneducated, insane psychopath in the WH and the world should be scared of what he might do at any time he feels threatened.
I said in Right Wing Lies that he will wait for April, but he may need the poll boost earlier - worked for cheney
Trump: “We had the safest border in the history of our country - or at least recorded history. I guess maybe a thousand years ago it was even better.”