Donald Trump, in Poland, Urges West to 'Defend Our Civilization'

[DonViejo]

Source: New York Times




By GLENN THRUSH and JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVISJULY 6, 2017

WARSAW — President Trump signaled a tougher line against Russia on Thursday, a day before his first face-to-face meeting with its president, Vladimir V. Putin — but he still refused to concede that Moscow was solely responsible for interference in the 2016 election.

Mr. Trump, delivering a stark message to a friendly Polish crowd before a two-day summit meeting of Group of 20 leaders, cast the West’s battle against “radical Islamic terrorism” as a way to protect “our civilization and our way of life.” He portrayed his domestic agenda as an equally serious challenge to powerful, entrenched bureaucracies in the United States and Europe.

“I am here today not just to visit an old ally, but to hold it up as an example for others who seek freedom and who wish to summon the courage and the will to defend our civilization,” Mr. Trump said in a speech in Krasinski Square, where a monument commemorates the 1944 Warsaw uprising against the Nazis.

“The fundamental question of our time is whether the West has the will to survive,” he said, employing the same life-or-death language as in his inauguration speech, which promised a war against the “American carnage” of urban crime. “Do we have the confidence in our values to defend them at any cost? Do we have enough respect for our citizens to protect our borders? Do we have the desire and the courage to preserve our civilization in the face of those who would subvert and destroy it?”


Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/06/world/europe/donald-trump-poland-speech.html

[COLGATE4]

1. His speech sounded better

in the original German.

[HAB911]

2. He means

like he is refusing to defend our civilization against Russia?

[milestogo]

3. No the West wants to lay down and die.

What a bizarre thing to say.

[Eugene]

4. He means protect white civilization from the dark-skinned Mooslim hoards

and their Deep State™ sympathizers.

Stephen Miller with a heavy influence from Steve Bannon.

[meadowlander]

5. Yes, it's so important to protect the rule of law, freedom of the press,

separation of church and state, freedom of association, posse comitatus, the electoral system, national sovereignty and self-determination and all of the other great advancements of civilization against those who would subvert them out of ignorance, self-interest or malice.

[Matthew28]

6. He wants to turn the west into Russia

and force Christianity down everyones throat. He doesn't mean the west based on its freedoms but like it was in the 18th century. Less free.