Syria Shithole
Donald J. Trump
Verified account @realDonaldTrump
Russia vows to shoot down any and all missiles fired at Syria. Get ready Russia, because they will be coming, nice and new and “smart!” You shouldn’t be partners with a Gas Killing Animal who kills his people and enjoys it!
3:57 AM - 11 Apr 2018
I'm a veteran service member. Twelve years in the U.S. Navy. Served in numerous capacities. Deployed 3 times, including times and areas where we received Imminent Danger Pay and were awarded Expeditionary medals.
I understand that there are times when a country has to defend itself. Times that call for men, armed and capable, to kill other men and blow their shit up so that they cannot transgress anymore.
I don't much subscribe to the theory that all war is bad anymore than I prescribe to the theory that it is wrong to defend oneself. Self defense is an individual human right. Any individual or group of individuals who bands together has the right, I would say duty, to defend themselves against anyone who attacks them or threatens to do so. That said, Syria is not self-defense.
I've been to the part of the world that is the powder keg known as the Middle East. Their squabbles are ancient. Their cultures are intransigent. Their underhanded subterfuge is legendary. You can believe basically nothing that comes from any side over there. Nothing.
Not having any real evidence one way or the other, there is no way to know if Assad actually carried out a chemical attack. The truth will most probably never be known, as all "evidence" is suspect. That being the case, for argument's sake let's just assume that the Assad regime actually did carry out the chemical attack.
So what. Not my fucking problem. Not your problem. Their problem. They want to keep killing the shit out of each other, just leave. Don't do business with them. Same way I deal with Chicago. Don't go to the shithole. Ya'll wanna be dumbasses? Go ahead!
Just pulling the hell out of these shitholes will save us hundreds of billions of $s and many lives and sacrifice. We have been so involved for so long that every cockamamie nitwit (on all sides) with a theory can gin up blame and make us the most evil empire ever. Just leave. Take our money, arms, buildings, food, supplies. All of it.
Then let it burn. To the sand and dirt. Let the fucking desert blow back over it as it has for eons. Pump our oil. Use our petroleum for our needs. They cannot even manufacture the pipes or valves to move their oil. In a generation they will be back in tents, cruising the strip on their camels without outside technology.
Any of them who want to conduct trade in a civil manner will of course be free to do so, including with our companies and individuals. However, civility is paramount and protection and respect must be extended to our citizens and their property. Any nation that mistreats our citizens will be banned from doing business with us here and our citizens will thereafter be warned that should they do business over there then they are on their own. All of this, of course, applies to all nations, including European nations.
There will always be those who will argue: "But the Russians and the Chinese will get their oil and business". So what? They'll also get the headaches, dead soldiers, the world's enmity and the attendant generations of blame. Let 'em have it, I say! There's actually plenty of oil to go around.
George Washington had the right idea:
"The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible. Europe has a set of primary interests, which to us have none, or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves, by artificial ties, in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics, or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities ... it is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world; so far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements."
— George Washington's Farewell Address