Speaking up for the GOOD Donald Trump has done

[g2s at riseup.net (Razer)]

Troll bait for all the fake prog-libs who secretly luv war

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> A Bipartisan Vote to Put the Brakes on War
>
> By putting such a sinister face on it, Trump might have finally
> inspired lawmakers to rein in Americaâ??s post-9/11 war machine.
>
> By Peter Certo
>
> "One of the few things I recall fondly about the Trump campaign â?? a
> short list, Iâ??ll admit â?? was the candidateâ??s apparent glee in
> ridiculing the war-mongering of his rivals and predecessors.
>
> In early 2016, Trump (correctly) summed up George W. Bushâ??s legacy
> this way: â??Weâ??ve been in the Middle East for 15 years, and we havenâ??t
> won anything.â??He ridiculed Hillary Clinton for being â??trigger happyâ?? â??
> no standard-issue gibe from a guy who also promised to bring torture
> back â?? even while echoing progressive complaints that the $5 trillion
> pricetag from Bushâ??s wars wouldâ??ve been better spent at home.
>
> And though Trumpâ??s relationship with the Russians has since acquired
> an unseemly cast, he once offered quite sensibly that â??itâ??s better to
> get alongâ?? with the worldâ??s other nuclear-armed superpower than not to.
>
> Compared to his rivals, Politico magazine once mused, Trump was â??going
> Code Pinkâ?? on foreign policy. But what a rose-colored lie that turned
> out to be.
>
> Since taking office, Trumpâ??s turned virtually all use of force
> decisions over to his generals. With the presidentâ??s backing, theyâ??ve
> ordered 4,000 new American troops back into Afghanistan, sent
> thousands more to Iraq and Syria, and nearly quadrupled the rate of
> drone strikes from the Obama administration, which was already quite
> prolific.
>
> Everywhere they go, theyâ??re escalating the brutality â?? and we still
> havenâ??t won anything.
>
> They cratered Afghanistan with the largest non-nuclear bomb ever
> dropped. Theyâ??ve stepped up support for the brutal Saudi-led bombing
> of Yemen, where 11,000 have died and thousands more are at risk of
> dying of hunger and cholera. Meanwhile theyâ??ve brought civilian
> casualties from our bombings in Iraq and Syria to record levels,
> inflicting what the UN calls a â??staggering loss of civilian life.â??
>
> Things are about to get even more dangerous in Syria, as the Islamic
> State falters and armed factions turn on each other to claim the
> remains of its caliphate.
>
> Under Trump, U.S. troops have repeatedly attacked pro-Syrian forces â??
> a line Obama never crossed â?? in a misguided effort to bolster
> Washingtonâ??s favorite rebels, many of whom are fighting each other.
> Thatâ??s ratcheting up tensions with Syriaâ??s allies, Iran and Russia,
> endangering Obamaâ??s hard-won diplomatic gains with Iran and even
> leading Russia to threaten to shoot down American planes.
>
> For Trump, a president lampooned as a puppet of Putin, blundering into
> conflict with Russia over an empty corner of eastern Syria should be
> an embarrassing prospect. But Trump seems blithely unaware of the
> whole thing.
>
> While Trump may be uniquely prone to careless belligerence, the
> problem is plainly bipartisan: Heâ??s mostly just adding ghastly
> additions to a war scaffolding the Obama and Bush administrations
> built before him.
>
> One possible solution? Revoke the congressional war authorization
> passed after 9/11, which gave the president authority to track down
> the perpetrators of those attacks. There were 19 hijackers that day,
> but that lawâ??s been abused to justify military action 37 times in 14
> countries, the Congressional Research Service calculates.
>
> Stunningly, on June 29, the House Appropriations committee
> overwhelmingly approved an amendment from Rep. Barbara Lee to revoke
> that authority..."
>

In full with links
http://otherwords.org/a-bipartisan-vote-to-put-the-brakes-on-war/