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Liberal_in_LA

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Mon Jul 18, 2016, 03:59 AM Jul 2016

Trump will "get rid of ISIS big league"; "wipe them out." [View all]



This is pathetic. Trump acts like he's back in the Celebrity Apprentice boardroom playacting a tough guy for the cameras. He declares that he will get "unbelievable intelligence"; he will "get rid of ISIS big league"; and he will "wipe them out." But when Lesley Stahl repeatedly asks him about ground troops, he repeatedly says this isn't in the cards. Maybe NATO will do it. Maybe other Arab countries will do it. Maybe troops will magically appear from a genie's bottle. Even though Trump claims that we're at war and President Obama is too weak and stupid to get it, in the end he basically endorses what Obama is doing right now. Like all the other armchair generals, he doesn't have the backbone to risk taking an unpopular stand, even if it's the only thing that would actually make a significant difference.

And when he's done with this empty blather, what does Mike Pence say? "This is the kind of leadership America needs." Heaven help us.

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/07/listen-donald-trumps-pathetic-fakery-isis
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He is clueless. avebury Jul 2016 #1
Trump is terrifyingly clueless BlueMTexpat Jul 2016 #2
Does Trump have a private intelligence agency or will he be sinkingfeeling Jul 2016 #3
But it sounded tough; that's all that matteres gratuitous Jul 2016 #4
More like poor people's children will fight in Syria while my kids have other priorities Johonny Jul 2016 #5
Just once, I'd like to see a journalist pin the SOB down. hamsterjill Jul 2016 #6
Trump would sooner "cut a deal" with ISIS, and then try to brag about it. Dreamer Tatum Jul 2016 #7
Trump knows NOTHING about foreign policy IgelJames4 Jul 2016 #8
Furthermore, he says "bigly" and thinks it's a word. Dreamer Tatum Jul 2016 #9
"Big league" doesn't sound any better. ronnie624 Jul 2016 #18
I wish Stahl had pointed out that Obama had a 66 nation coalition, including the NATO karynnj Jul 2016 #10
Exactly Proud Liberal Dem Jul 2016 #14
looks like a decent play by Orange Foolius 0rganism Jul 2016 #11
Obama (and by extension, Hillary) Proud Liberal Dem Jul 2016 #15
c'mon, we both know what their initial point of attack will be 0rganism Jul 2016 #19
Yeah, I suppose you're right Proud Liberal Dem Jul 2016 #21
This message was self-deleted by its author 0rganism Jul 2016 #19
It's the way he says he'll get "unbelievable intelligence" that gave me the facepalm moment muriel_volestrangler Jul 2016 #12
Heaven help us indeed Proud Liberal Dem Jul 2016 #13
The Trump-Pence 60 Minutes Interview Is the Epitome of ‘Sad!’ womanofthehills Jul 2016 #16
Actions speak louder than words? sorefeet Jul 2016 #17
Like Cheney and Bush smoked Terrorists out of their holes? tenderfoot Jul 2016 #22
My money is on him using nukes redStateBlueHeart Jul 2016 #23
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