In an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer today, Republican front-runner Donald Trump said it was possible that today’s terror attacks in Belgium could’ve been prevented with a sufficient amount of torture, saying he believes they could’ve made captured ISIS suspect Saleh Abdesalam “talk a lot faster” by torturing him.
“If he would’ve talked you might not have had the blow up,” Trump insisted, saying the US needs to “change our laws” to a “almost equal basis” with what ISIS does to its own detainees, saying he wants waterboarding as a “minimum form of torture” and also advocates “far worse.”
Trump went on to urge a full closing of all US borders in the wake of the attack in Europe, saying the border should stay closed “until we figure out what’s going on,” and lamenting that Brussels used to be “an absolutely crime-free city.”
He also demanded the Belgian government immediately turn Abdesalam over to the military, insisting the country has to “get its act together” on interrogating the detainee, accused of being involved in November’s Paris attacks. US officials suspect today’s attackers are from the same cell.
Sure, let’s continue Obama’s policy of becoming like ISIS.
Trump continues trying to appeal to the very bright as well as the moronic constituency in the country. Hoping the bright will forgive the grand standing and demagogy while thinking the moronic would just gloss over things they are are not interested in. This approach can take you only so far. Like an acrobat doing an increasingly difficult exercise involving a split, he runs the risk of becoming apart at the seams at some stage. Not at this moment yet though.
Sure, Trump latched onto some great ideas already way back in the past. But also a lot of very bad ones. The question is then if he even understands why his good ideas are good or is he just voicing them for effect, because there are a lot of Americans waiting to hear them being voices? Considering Trump as a business man has always been 100% about branding his family name and cashing in on that brand, the question should rise how much credit he still deserves for taking on the establishment like he did. There’s a moment one cannot gloss over all of incredibly stupid remarks anymore.
He is everything to everyone.
However,
If you take all his good ideas and all his bad ones and subtract the other candidates policies, you are then, only left with the good ones. He shares his bad views with the rest of them. That’s how it comes off anyway. He’s bad on this that or the other, but so what, so are they!
Of course there is a good chance he is 100% full of BS on all of it. It’s not like that would be something new either. So again what’s the choice, something unknown or the status quo?
Scary question if you think about it. Is America ready to just flip a coin? (That would make a good question for the polls)
oh and another thing. He tells a lot of truths that need to be spoken, but he lies so much it almost cancels it out. If you didn’t already know he was telling the truth it wouldn’t help hearing it from him.
I’m not sure I want the Truth about Iraq mixed up with Birthers that would be a good way to marginalize it. On the other hand at least someone is talking about it. I hope he clobbers Hillary with the Truth about the war come debate time.
he doesnt tell the truth – he says what he wants his “audience” to hear – the guy is a dangerous lunatic
yeah torture works like it does in 24 – LOL – torture is wrong
That’s Jason Raimondo’s pick talkin now.
Why is it that Bernie Sanders seems to be a non-starter here on antiwar.com?
Naww, never mind, I know already.