Positions 3, 4, and 5 are a really close call for me.
I agree with everything except Trump at 5. I'm curious why you think Trump is lower than Clinton. I know Hillary can be tough, but I think Trump seems to promise a more muscular foreign policy. The problem is that everything with the Donald is exasperatingly vague.
The one thing I know for sure is that if Trump is elected, we will have the greatest foreign policy in the history of the United States. We are going to have so much great foreign policy we are going to get tired of it, but we're going to keep having the greatest foreign policy anyway, right? Because Trump hires unbelievable people.
And I believe him.
Trump has came out and said he's in favor of torture to send a message - an eye for an eye kind of message. Or maybe more like that dialog from The Untouchables about the Chicago way.
To be honest, I don't accept the premise of the OP either. I think that statesmanship and diplomacy should be our first recourse, but there's a point of balance between "War is not the answer" and "Bomb Iran, bomb, bomb, ...bomb bomb Iran..." Or a spectrum within which there is a risk assessment constantly in play. There are times when the risk of military action is outweighed by the consequences of inaction that are require pragmatism over ideology in my opinion.
The world is always full of the sound of waves..but who knows the heart of the sea, a hundred feet down? Who knows it's depth? ~ Eiji Yoshikawa
I believe that Governor Kasich is the best choice out of the six Republicans and Democrats still running, but unfortunately, he is not going to win the GOP Nomination. I will very likely be voting for Gary Johnson during the general election. It will mainly be a protest vote.
"And I've said it before, you want to know what Joseph Smith looked like in Nauvoo, just look at Trump." - Fence Sitter
Analytics wrote:I happen to have some connections that are Quakers, and I see the following sign in several windows:
I've come to believe that the single most important consideration for the wellbeing of both America and the rest of the world when choosing the President of the United States is the degree to which he or she understands this truth. Except in the hypothetical event that an enemy nation is attacking the U.S. or an ally with either a conventional army or with nuclear weapons, our army needs to just stay home.
Just so I'm clear, are you saying that if we are attacked by a group that isn't a "nation", or they don't use a "conventional army" or nuclear weapons, then under no circumstances is a military reaction appropriate?
Yes, that is the basic proposition. We absolutely suck at using our overpriced weapons to be the world's policeman, and we would be safer and better off if we were to disarm.
It’s relatively easy to agree that only Homo sapiens can speak about things that don’t really exist, and believe six impossible things before breakfast. You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.
honorentheos wrote:Trump has came out and said he's in favor of torture to send a message - an eye for an eye kind of message. Or maybe more like that dialog from The Untouchables about the Chicago way.
What's more troubling is that Trump is using "we're going to do so much torturing you guys" as an applause line. And it's not just his voters that view that as an applause line. It tells you were the Republican primary voter bloc is at.
Brackite wrote:I believe that Governor Kasich is the best choice out of the six Republicans and Democrats still running, but unfortunately, he is not going to win the GOP Nomination. I will very likely be voting for Gary Johnson during the general election. It will mainly be a protest vote.
What happened to your support of Marco Rubio?
And when the confederates saw Jackson standing fearless as a stone wall the army of Northern Virginia took courage and drove the federal army off their land.
Brackite wrote:I believe that Governor Kasich is the best choice out of the six Republicans and Democrats still running, but unfortunately, he is not going to win the GOP Nomination. I will very likely be voting for Gary Johnson during the general election. It will mainly be a protest vote.
What happened to your support of Marco Rubio?
I don't 'support' Marco Rubio for President anymore mainly because he came out as being too hawkish during the debates. Senator Rubio has come across as very much a neocon during the debates.
"And I've said it before, you want to know what Joseph Smith looked like in Nauvoo, just look at Trump." - Fence Sitter
Brackite wrote:I believe that Governor Kasich is the best choice out of the six Republicans and Democrats still running, but unfortunately, he is not going to win the GOP Nomination. I will very likely be voting for Gary Johnson during the general election. It will mainly be a protest vote.
Kasich sure sounds normal, and would likely put the best face on America abroad (out of the GOP candidates, that is), but I fear his policy ideas are just as bad as the rest of field's.
God belief is for people who don't want to live life on the universe's terms.