With north korea can you talk about what the reaction of our media and really most members of Congress Tells us yeah well another great example is a current one trump is saying he wants to remove 9000 troops from germany we have like 35000 troops in germany very few people probably know that i was surprised to know we had that many and so trump is saying we dont need him there lets bring him home immediately the media has jumped on him of course raising the russian menace mysterious and oh youre giving him the love the take 1000 germany you have congressman eliot engel a leading democrat out in new york he is trying to pass legislation to prevent trum from taking the troops out of germany so its quite interesting another great example was of course trumps overtures to north. Really didnt make a peace plan again he was highly criticized for that he was for training some side to. Do her injunction and of course that Peace Process has as its radius he recently said we need and our endless
Excellent new book people can probably see it over your shoulder there no more war its a must read about how we here in the u. S. Use humanitarian intervention to justify horrible acts of war and you start off by by talking a little about the Trump Presidency and probably almost everyone watching this can agree hes been a catastrophe in myriad ways so many ways you know you cant really count them all but in terms of for him paul policy its very telling when the Mainstream Media and the establishment truly freak out when they freak i mean they do the moments they truly lose it and how terrible trump is they freak out in moments such as when trump said hed be withdrawing our troops from syria or when he threatened to create peace with north korea can you talk about what the reaction of our media and really most members of Congress Tells us. Yeah well another great example is a current one trump is saying he wants to remove 9000 troops from germany we have like 35000 troops in germany ver
Department officials, john and awardwinning author, shelby steele. At first, heres a portion of the 2013 interview with George Schultz freed secretary of state during the Reagan Administration he talked about his book issues on my mind. And the issues on my mind, you write that when it comes to terrorism, this country must think hard about the moral stakes involved and if we truly believe in our Democratic Values and our way of life, we must be willing to defend that. Passive measures are unlikely to suffice. Needs of our active defense must be considered and given the necessary political support. Estate if you have a Law Enforcement approach, you say okay, but a terrorist attack happened. Then we find out who did it. And then we try them in the u. S. Court. And we find them guilty. Then they go to jail. What has that accomplished. A certain deterrence but in the meantime, tara stark has taken place. In the terrorist act like 911 can kill a lot of people. So if you know something is co
A current one trump is saying he wants to remove 9000 troops from germany we have like 35000 troops in germany very few people probably know that i was surprised to know we had that many and so trump is saying we dont need him there lets bring him home immediately the media has jumped on him of course raising the russian menace mysterious and oh youre giving him the love you take 9000 germany you have congressman eliot engel a leading democrat out in new york he is trying to pass legislation to prevent trum from taking the troops out of germany so its quite interesting another great example was of course trumps overtures to north korea to make a peace plan again he was highly criticized for that he was portrayed as some type of a do for can john and of course that Peace Process has eviscerated he recently said we need egypt and air and less wars. Thats something i think a lot of people could get behind in the media seems very yesterday about that notion and then conversely they called
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