Taking office today, President Donald Trump gave his inauguration address, laying out a global war on “radical Islamic terrorism” as the centerpiece of his foreign policy, and promising to unite the entire civilized world to see this threat destroyed.
Trump cited the Bible’s call for God’s people to live together in unity while promising to reinforce existing alliances and forge new ones across the civilized world, saying the defeat of ISIS and other radical Islamic terror groups is the “highest priority” of his administration.
Trump insisted this would involve aggressive joint and coalition military operations, expanded intelligence sharing, and “cyberwarfare” to disrupt ISIS’ recruitment efforts. He did not, however, offer any specific ways in which this would be different from the assorted global war on terror operations already ongoing.
He did, however, promise to “rebuild” the American military, a process which would involve enlarging both the Air Forcce and Navy by significant amounts. Previous estimates have put the cost of just building the naval vessels proposed in the realm of $165 billion, with the cost of maintaining the ships and actually hiring crews to pilot them adding much more.
Trump had previously insisted during the campaign that he had plans that would lead to the outright defeat of ISIS, though he was similarly tight-lipped about the details back then, and so far we remain largely in the dark about what that is going to entail.
Trump’s statement his goal is to wipe out and destroy all Islamic terrorism where ever it might be .. That goal is completely different even the opposite of our last 5 presidents goals all of which made a practice of partnering with various Islamic terrorists to foster regime change in many different countries around the world ..Our last 5 presidents did fight terrorists usually one group was declared the enemy and hundreds of other Islamic terrorist groups were always given a free pass at the same time. Success was almost impossible because the Islamic terrorists merrily changed groups or changed their name
Islamic terrorism is directed by Israel, the USA, France, Britain- all the Western nations allegedly fighting terrorism! If you want to get rid of “Islamic terrorism” all you have to do is hold an accountability to the covert agencies around the world, and in particular the USA/CIA, and it will surely disappear just like those “reds” did after the Soviet Union dissolved. The USA or any nation that makes makes billions on military proliferation ALWAYS need an “enemy” to “justify” such contracting! “Islamic terrorism” is just as phony as 911! Trump’s ultimate roadblock, if he attempts to reign in these covert forces, will be the military/industrial complex. Muslims have and continue to be framed by all sorts of DIRECTED actions(immigration, false flag terrorism, etc.) that keep the “reasons” for the war on terror alive and well! The world can view Islamic terrorism as evil as they want to, but even if it’s genuine attacks by Muslims WITHOUT Western connections, it is a drop in the giant bucket compared to USA transgressions against the world over the years.
That being said and true — the cycle needs to stop. And the sacred cows
will need to be deslt with one st a time. Why? The famous complex is down to slim pickings. Saudi Arabia ran out of money — and without their cash and indoctrination terror business cannot thrive. They were psyching themselves up on Russia. It is not working — Billy Bob now knows more about Crimea and Soros Ukraine than mainstream retards. The deep state run by IT moguls all on the richest men list — do mot care about devastated regions, they make mone in the vitrual world of licencing/leasing. But nobody else sees any benefits — everything gutted, just import, be good to everyone at our expense, for as long as they sell their licenses and gadgets. So, as peasants are comming with internet pitchforks — other interests are pushing to the front. Energy giants, manufecturing — they require stable energy regions, removal of sanctions, global markets. So, opposite of the world of virtual world, virtual money. Virtual values, and elites that promote it. The mil/infustrial complex will retool — and shift to infradtructure. They will not go poor. But the virtual world, controling all media, and creating identity warriors, will not go lightly into the night. The media bubble lives on, lost and divorced from reality. And understood only by those who live in their identity bubbles. Nobody can judge their perfection. As the universe apparently revolves around them.
Too much innuendo and too many metaphors for your audience. I even gave up reading it myself this time. Suit yourself on how you take that.
luv from Canada.
I wouldn’t say that fighting Islamic radical terrorism was the center of it. It was, however, a gutsy speech. With all those snakes and rats behind him he went right at them from the beginning. It was a thing of beauty.
good to see you again old buddy
likewise.
And with that speech he sounded just like the snakes and rats behind him. He bitched about something and promised more.
Yeah right. All them speeches by Bush, Obama, Schumer, Ryan attacking the establishment…
Compared to Trump attacking the establishment and then surrounding himself with establishment types? And should we just ignore what he actually says?
Like who?
What he actually said was just fine. What do you expect an incoming president to talk about?
Billionaires and generals.
What he said was vile. Just like his ass kissing of Israel after Obama abstained on the UN vote. Of course I’m sure he didn’t really mean what he said then either.
Since Saudi Arabia has been the chief sponsor of Islamic terror I would like to see Trump transform Saudi from our ally to our enemy. This would make him a great President and so very different from the Neocons and neolibs before him.
It was disappointing to hear Trump single out ISIS. After all, ISIS is a by-product of US interference and the US annihilation of Iraq.
Therefore, Trump’s latest message is contrary to his otherwise ‘America First’ non-intervention messages.
Let’s hope that Trump’s policies coalesce around other statements where he says that the US will not impose its way of life on others.
Unfortunately, it’s still impossible to know exactly where Trump is headed. Stay tuned!
If one understands where the US is headed and has been headed since the fall of the Soviet Union, you will know where Trump is headed.
It’s a lot bigger than a fool like Trump who hasn’t been brought up to speed yet but will fairly quickly.
His speeches will contain less contradictions of the US long term plan and more foreign policy that is ‘on script’. While still allowing him some leeway to fulfill the needs of his ego with unimportant sh-t that is harmless to the spook agencies.
He’s not smart enough or informed enough to do otherwise on foreign policy. He’s harmless on everything else which will soon mesh with the familiar Republican agenda.
And fwiw, if he went renegade and chose to not follow the agenda, he will be dealt with in the usual manner that loose cannons are dealt with.
Thiink about it. It untangles all the mysteries that are Trump.
How significant is the threat of “Islamic terrorism”? See the facts here: http://www.twf.org/Library/Terrorism.html
The phrase itself is an oxymoron. The correct term would be Muslim terrorist. Islam is the faith; Muslim is the believer.