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Old 14th Feb 2019, 03:27
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Golder, we shall see. Remember....mark a Man by his actions and not by his words.

The "Break it...you own it!" Rule is exactly what got us into endless war.

At some point....we have to withdraw....as we just plain cannot afford it financially.

Had we stopped with the over throw of the bad guys early in the Afghan War....and not sent in Conventional Forces...perhaps that War would not have dragged on for so long.

Had we not gone into Iraq....or gone in and established order....and left.....it would not have been the disaster it became.

If we had not overthrown the Leaders in Egypt and Libya....perhaps we would not have the mess we do in the Middle East.

We. had a President that "led from behind"....went in for Regime Change....and who refused to admit Islamic Terrorism was the threat it really was.

Trump has a different view of things....as he is not a politician and does not think like a politician....he is a business man....who makes decisions in a much different way than the previous Presidents have done.

That does not make him wrong....it does make him different.

We have not had a whole lot of success using the traditional advisors and traditional method of decision making have we?

Let's see how the North Korea thing works out, how our trade issues with China get resolved, and how economic sanctions work on Russia and Iran.

Then we can critique Trump's results.
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