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“Israel Won’t See Aid
Cuts Under Trump Budget Plan: State Dept.”
Gee, I definitely remember during his campaign Trump musing
about "why can't Israel pay for its own defense?" It was such a
legitimate question.
It was one of several refreshing statements on foreign
affairs and war - virtually never heard from American politicians - which
convinced me he was what America and the world needed for a while, even though
I couldn't disagree more with the majority of his views.
Other early and encouraging statements included a suggestion
to leave Syria for the Russians to end the terror and a complaint at Obama’s
having the entire Mideast in flames. There was also an early promise of the
United States being out of the nation-overturning business.
Well, now we see and hear something different on virtually
every subject.
Military budget is to grow like it has cancer. Threats to
Iran. Threats to North Korea. Provocative behavior towards China. Israel can
have and do whatever it pleases. The good old thugs at CIA can just decide for
themselves who it is they want to kill. Troops sent into Syria against the will
of its government. Bombing in Yemen. No respite in Europe vis-a-vis Russia. New
weapons in fact going to Europe.
Just a genuinely sickening picture in total.
The man is functioning just as we might have expected
Hillary to function in almost every area of military activity and international
affairs, the most important areas for reclaiming a free and decent society.
Complete deference to the military/ security/ corporate
establishment with continued whining about the press and making an
international laughing stock of American migrant and refugee policies.
And on top of it all, he has done next to nothing real on serious
budget cuts and job creation.
He really has proven a colossal failure at quite an early
stage.
