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January 18, 2017 8:27 AM
Masood Farivar
President-elect Donald Trump's campaign pledge to wage war on "radical Islamic terrorism" is about to become U.S. policy.
In its emphasis on ideology, it is a war that puts him at odds with his two immediate predecessors. While both former President George W. Bush and President Barack Obama have avoided casting the war on terror in ideological terms for fear of alienating Muslim allies, Trump has stressed that very dimension and the need to counter it ideologically.
"Containing the spread of radical Islam must be a major foreign policy goal of the United States," Trump said in April in the first of two major foreign policy speeches he delivered during the campaign. "Events may require the use of military force. But it's also a philosophical struggle, like our long struggle in the Cold War."
More than campaign rhetoric, it seems to be a deeply held view. In the weeks since his Nov. 8 election, Trump has steadfastly stuck to his hardline position on terror even as he's softened his views on other hot-button issues.
http://www.voanews.com/a/donald-trump-pledges-war-radical-islamic-terrorism/3676303.html
Aristus
(66,380 posts)Historic NY
(37,449 posts)will want to take a swing at Dear Leader. It will become more dangerous.
Wounded Bear
(58,662 posts)doc03
(35,340 posts)buildings gets bombed? Just a matter of
time someone will take one out.
matt819
(10,749 posts)I read the other day that the US dropped 20,000 or so bombs last year, mostly in Iraq and Yemen, all in the fight against radical Islamic terrorism. So what does the drumpfenfuhrer plan to do? Bomb Saudi Arabia? The Obama administration, for better or worse, has used drone attacks to kill hundreds (thousands? tens of thousands?) of so-called Muslim terrorists. Again, how does the fuhrer plan to change that?
And how do you contain the spread of an ideology? There's this little thing called the internet. If the extremists want to get their views across, they can, and they will. And 20,000 bombs just contributes to the spread of extremists views. It's not like the Cold War. That was promulgated by one country - an actual nation. In this case the one dictated over by his bromance partner Putin. We simply outspent them over the course of almost 50 years (end of WWII to 1989), and they caved. Of course, the joke's on us as the US prepares to bend over and take it from Russia/Putin. But, back to stopping the spread of islamic extremism. Books have been written about this, but the long and short of is that it simply isn't going to happen, and it's most definitely not going to happen with the hardline approach of America's new dictator.
Mosby
(16,317 posts)Do you think Obama has committed war crimes?
What, if anything, do you thing America and the West should do about Islamic based terrorism?
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)flaying about to pacify his neo-nazi base and the wannabe cluckers.
Is the Golden Urinator threatening a Land War in the Middle East? Sure smells like it. Another great PR program to Make America Great Again. Or is the Urinator sending our Kids in Harms way to help Putin in the Baltic Area?
Get ready for the Stupid.
ck4829
(35,077 posts)Radical Trumpism? Radical Americanism?
Why aren't we working with Muslims since they are obviously immune to mental illness and the effects of alienation?