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workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
Sat Dec 10, 2016, 01:44 PM Dec 2016

NY Times Op-Ed Calls For Trump To Threaten Nuclear Armageddon

NY Times Op-Ed Calls For Trump To Threaten Nuclear Armageddon
A foreign policy based on terrorizing the world? What could possibly go wrong?
JUSTIN ROSARIO 21 HOURS AGO

With Trump filling his Cabinet with hawkish generals and religious lunatics, neo-conservatives are salivating at the prospect of a return to the "good ol' days" when the world was terrified that the United States would start World War III on a whim.

In a New York Times op-ed that should give you nightmares for the next 4 years, frothing neo-con Mark Moyar outlines a worldview that can charitably be called "suicidal". Advocating a return to Nixon's "madman theory" that left the world wondering if America was out of control, Moyar calls on Trump, an actual madman, to "put fear back in the nation’s enemies":

http://thedailybanter.com/2016/12/donald-trump-nuclear-terrorism/
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NY Times Op-Ed Calls For Trump To Threaten Nuclear Armageddon (Original Post) workinclasszero Dec 2016 OP
I'm afraid on multiple fronts MattP Dec 2016 #1
All I know for sure is that on January 20 2017 workinclasszero Dec 2016 #2
 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
2. All I know for sure is that on January 20 2017
Sat Dec 10, 2016, 01:52 PM
Dec 2016

The lunatics take charge with no checks or balances at all.

The democratic party can possibly slow them but not stop them in the end.

Be afraid world, be very afraid.

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