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John McCain Just Attacked Trump On Twitter

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As he recovered from surgery and prepared for new treatments at his Arizona home today, the six-term Senator found the energy to encourage his Twitter followers to read Michael Gerson’s Washington Post column, entitled “Trump’s breathtaking surrender to Russia.”
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Thank you, Senator McCain.

John McCain Just Attacked Trump On Twitter
 
Surrender?

Cut me a break! :roll:

When will Americans realize the Middle East was and never should have been our problem to begin with?

It's been our constant interventionism in support of tyrants simply to protect Oil company interests (Shah of Iran, Saddam Hussein, The House of Saud, and Assad to name a few) that has led to this mess.

It is our continued intervention which continues to make problems for our nation.

I am sick to death of Vietnam-type commitments to fight unwinnable wars. Either go in to kick ass and take names, or stay the hell out!

I think it's time and PAST time that we accept our failures and stop committing men and resources. Pull out, just let THEM sort it out, and then accept and deal with the results of our folly politically.

Then STOP getting involved in these kinds of conflicts.
 
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Captain Adverse said:
Surrender?

Cut me a break! :roll:

When will Americans realize the Middle East was and never should have been our problem to begin with?

It been our constant interventionism in support of tyrants simply to protect Oil company interests (Shah of Iran, Saddam Hussein, The House of Saud, and Assad to name a few) that has led to this mess.

It is our continued intervention which continues to make problems for our nation.

I am sick to death of Vietnam-type commitments to fight unwinnable wars. Either go in to kick ass and take names, or stay the hell out.

I think it's time and PAST time that we accept our failures and stop committing men and resources. Pull out, just let THEM sort it out, and then accept and deal with the results of our folly politically.

Then STOP getting involved in these kinds of conflicts.
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One thing's for sure: With the exception of Israel, true democratic republics in the Middle East and Northern African have either fallen leaving bloodshed and death, or never got off the ground at all. In most instances, it takes a strong-man dictatorship to keep the tribal hatred and sectarian violence under control. Nation building as never worked for us.

One point... Most of our involvement in the US was point-counter-point with the USSR/Russia with the US having allies and the USSR doing the same. Somaliland's Italian empire fell and the Soviets moved in. Egypt at one time was a Soviet puppet. Syria has always been a Soviet/now Russian puppet. And so on, and so on. We have to stop fighting the last war, and move on to the future peace. Let the ME and Northern Africa get their dictators back in place (or the military like Egypt) and then we can negotiate with them after the bullets stop flying with no US boots, just US Dollars to bribe them to get the oil we need or to let us put anti-missile batteries in place, etc.
 
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Captain Adverse said:
Surrender?

Cut me a break! :roll:

When will Americans realize the Middle East was and never should have been our problem to begin with?

It's been our constant interventionism in support of tyrants simply to protect Oil company interests (Shah of Iran, Saddam Hussein, The House of Saud, and Assad to name a few) that has led to this mess.

It is our continued intervention which continues to make problems for our nation.

I am sick to death of Vietnam-type commitments to fight unwinnable wars. Either go in to kick ass and take names, or stay the hell out!

I think it's time and PAST time that we accept our failures and stop committing men and resources. Pull out, just let THEM sort it out, and then accept and deal with the results of our folly politically.

Then STOP getting involved in these kinds of conflicts.
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The Middle East became the US's problem because they did not want it to fall to the Russians. So it is totally untrue that the Middle East should never have been the US's problem. If they went to war to prevent the commies getting their hands on the Far East, there is no way the US could have or should have played dead (done nothing) when Russia tried to get it greedy claws into the ME and Africa.
 
Beaudreaux said:
One thing's for sure: With the exception of Israel, true democratic republics in the Middle East and Northern African have either fallen leaving bloodshed and death, or never got off the ground at all.
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 In most instances, it takes a strong-man dictatorship to keep the tribal hatred and sectarian violence under control. Nation building as never worked for us.

One point... Most of our involvement in the US was point-counter-point with the USSR/Russia with the US having allies and the USSR doing the same. Somaliland's Italian empire fell and the Soviets moved in. Egypt at one time was a Soviet puppet. Syria has always been a Soviet/now Russian puppet. And so on, and so on. We have to stop fighting the last war, and move on to the future peace. Let the ME and Northern Africa get their dictators back in place (or the military like Egypt) and then we can negotiate with them after the bullets stop flying with no US boots, just US Dollars to bribe them to get the oil we need or to let us put anti-missile batteries in place, etc.
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Wrong.Israel is a Jewish theocracy which wouldn't exist without help from the USA.
 
Slingshot Bob said:
A neocon. McCain is still pist about Trumps POW comment (trumps deplorables moment)
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It's good yet again that trump supporters such as yourself show how much they hate POWs. But then trump supporters hate America and the people who fought for this country unlike you.
 
danarhea said:
Thank you, Senator McCain.
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Hmmmmmm? A person who has a brain tumor affecting their thinking and you thank them for those convoluted thoughts.

I guess that is no longer something not to be expected.
 
Excon said:
Hmmmmmm? A person who has a brain tumor affecting their thinking and you thank them for those convoluted thoughts.

I guess that isn't something not to be expected.
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Asking that his Twitter followers read an OpEd at WaPo constitutes "those convoluted thoughts" in your mind? Convoluted - It doesn't mean what you seem to think it means. Convoluted | Define Convoluted at Dictionary.com
 
Excon said:
Hmmmmmm? A person who has a brain tumor affecting their thinking and you thank them for those convoluted thoughts.

I guess that is no longer something not to be expected.
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At least unlike Trump he had a known medical reason for any lack of thinking, so what is wrong with Trump?
 
Beaudreaux said:
Asking that his Twitter followers read an OpEd at WaPo constitutes "those convoluted thoughts" in your mind? Convoluted - It doesn't mean what you seem to think it means. Convoluted | Define Convoluted at Dictionary.com
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Thank you for providing the definition.

When a person points others to an absurd OpEd about "Trump’s breathtaking surrender to Russia", that is showing they are having twisted thoughts.

I shouldn't have had to explain to anybody knowing the meaning of the word that I was using it in a disparaging manner to indicate "twisted" thoughts.
 
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BillRM said:
At least unlike Trump he had a known medical reason for any lack of thinking, so what is wrong with Trump?
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You first have to show something is objectively wrong with what Trump has done, otherwise all you have is your opinion.
 
Peter King said:
The Middle East became the US's problem because they did not want it to fall to the Russians. So it is totally untrue that the Middle East should never have been the US's problem. If they went to war to prevent the commies getting their hands on the Far East, there is no way the US could have or should have played dead (done nothing) when Russia tried to get it greedy claws into the ME and Africa.
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It amazes me when foreigners tell us what we should and should not be intervening in. :roll:

It's all good as long as AMERICAN lives are at risk. Then the rest of the "free world" can sit back and take pot shots at our "imperialism."

Why don't you have the Netherlands send your little army in to police whatever territory you think the Russians are looking to take over, instead of trying to tell us what our national objectives should be?

The Middle East became our "problem" because American Oil businesses made it so.

Well, we really don't need Middle East oil as much, we can develop our local resources instead of wasting billions and any more American lives interfering in that mess.
 
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Excon said:
You first have to show something is objectively wrong with what Trump has done, otherwise all you have is your opinion.
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Trump had been a clown for years with his support of the Obama is not a citizen nonsense and I had send team of investigators to Hawaii to proved it and you will not believe what they are finding.

As far as to what he done wrong over the years try visiting the ruins of Atlantic City after he got done with it. Breaking his promises from the first not to used junk bonds to the gaming board.

If you talking about what he is doing now wrong just look at the news with special reference to his crazy tweets.

We got a crazy man/child in the Whitehouse.
 
BillRM said:
Trump had been a clown for years with his support of the Obama is not a citizen nonsense and I had send team of investigators to Hawaii to proved it and you will not believe what they are finding.

As far as to what he done wrong over the years try visiting the ruins of Atlantic City after he got done with it. Breaking his promises from the first not to used junk bonds to the gaming board.

If you talking about what he is doing now wrong just look at the news with special reference to his crazy tweets.

We got a crazy man/child in the Whitehouse.
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iLOL
Like I said. Opinion.
 
Praxas said:
It's good yet again that trump supporters such as yourself show how much they hate POWs. But then trump supporters hate America and the people who fought for this country unlike you.
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Obama and the left attacked McCain endlessly in 2008. If you want to talk about insulting, the left voted for a novice community organizer over this supposed man of honor. Trump at least has credentials.... Obama had nothing.
 
Captain Adverse said:
It amazes me when foreigners tell us what we should and should not be intervening in. :roll:

It's all good as long as AMERICAN lives are at risk. Then the rest of the "free world" can sit back and take pot shots at our "imperialism."

Why don't you have the Netherlands send your little army in to police whatever territory you think the Russians are looking to take over, instead of trying to tell us what our national objectives should be?

The Middle East became our "problem" because American Oil businesses made it so.

Well, we really don't need Middle East oil as much, we can develop our local resources instead of wasting billions and any more American lives interfering in that mess.
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What nonsense.

I was not telling you what you should or should not be intervening in, maybe you misread my post or you are just getting your boxershorts in a twist for no effing reason.

My post was:

The Middle East became the US's problem because they did not want it to fall to the Russians. So it is totally untrue that the Middle East should never have been the US's problem. If they went to war to prevent the commies getting their hands on the Far East, there is no way the US could have or should have played dead (done nothing) when Russia tried to get it greedy claws into the ME and Africa.
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NOWHERE did I state what you should or should not do, all I stated is how the US reactions of the cold war dictated that the US had no choice but to intervene in the ME. You may disagree with that but it is historically correct as to how the mindset of the US was in those years. Nothing more or nothing less.

Nowhere did I say what you should or should not intervene in. Especially because all of the intervening in the Middle East that I was talking about was HISTORICAL INTERVENTION that already took place decades ago. I did not say anything about the current interventions in the ME, again that is the choice of the US political parties. I did not say where you should intervene so unwind those panties.

And then the rest of your post:

1. I never spoke of US imperialism

2. You mean when the Netherlands battalion was part of the US 38th infantry regiment of the 2nd US infantry division in the Korean war?

Or when we fought in the Bosnian conflict.

Or our peacekeeping forces in Kosovo?

Then we have our troops fighting in the war on terrorism alongside the US?

Or our troops in Mali?

Counter piracy missions near Somalia?

Or the troops that are in Lithuania to help protect it from Russia?

Or where we are part of the Bahrein - Combined Maritime Forces?

My brother in law served in both Iraq and Afghanistan (as well as Kosovo).

So again, untwist your boxershorts, because I did not tell you where to intervene.
 
Excon said:
iLOL
Like I said. Opinion.
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What opinion?

Do you think it is a sane position to had claimed that the president is not a citizen?

So you think it is right to lied to the NJ gaming board and as a result ruin a city?

Those crazy and constant Tweets are an example of a sane mind?
 
Bucky said:
Obama and the left attacked McCain endlessly in 2008. If you want to talk about insulting, the left voted for a novice community organizer over this supposed man of honor. Trump at least has credentials.... Obama had nothing.
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What credentials ruins lives of those who was stupid enough to deal with him over the years?
 
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