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Old 07-23-2017, 07:59 PM
 
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I love economic sanctions. It reminds me of the shunning of the Amish.

Either play by the rules or we won't play with you.

Putin isn't playing by the rules, and Russia's economy is paying the price. There is no reason on God's green earth that we should be backing off sanctions over matters that continue.

The U.S. isn't playing by the rules either and we need to stop it.

As some of you may be aware, I am not a member of the Trump team, but if Trump brought everybody home, I'd wear one of those goofy red hats.

We need to march our silly selves out of Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, ... you name it.

As far as I'm concerned, you might as well bring the fighter pilots home from Aviano, Italy as well. They couldn't get it organized to get to that fight in Benghazi which was two hours away. Had they been still sitting alert at the airfield in the toe of Italy, they would have been about a half hour away. Even if they thought the battle would be over by the time they got there, they could have given it a shot. They might have been able to repel that second wave.

If fighter pilots can't get to a fight, what good are they? Might as well send a drone.

We are spending far too much on Middle East problems that we cannot solve. I say give the Kurds a shot at their own country and call it good.

But that's just me, I suspect.
No. It's not just you. I agree.
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Old 07-23-2017, 08:02 PM
 
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So now they are threatening him, and he threatened them on twitter. What a fustercluck.
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Old 07-23-2017, 08:45 PM
 
Location: Salisbury,NC
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History tells us not to needlessly antagonize a nation which seeks peace with us.
Russia does not seek peace with us. There was this hack of our election just last year which a peaceful nation would not have done.
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Old 07-23-2017, 08:48 PM
 
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Russia does not seek peace with us. There was this hack of our election just last year which a peaceful nation would not have done.
It's been asked many times......never an answer. What did they hack?
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Old 07-23-2017, 08:53 PM
 
Location: Salisbury,NC
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I believe the number is 31 state election boards. They also were able to hack both parties systems and have used the information to attack one party. Keeping the information on the other as a tool for later use.


Numerous other Corp. and Gov't systems.
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Old 07-23-2017, 09:00 PM
 
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I believe the number is 31 state election boards. They also were able to hack both parties systems and have used the information to attack one party. Keeping the information on the other as a tool for later use.


Numerous other Corp. and Gov't systems.
There is no proof of any of that.
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Old 07-23-2017, 09:04 PM
 
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He has no choice but to sign, it would be embarassing to have a veto overridden just 6 months into his term. Some Congressmen seem to know quite a bit more about Russia from classified briefings.


Russia needs to get out of Crimea, Ukraine and stay out of elections. Russia's economy has been crippled by the sanctions, maybe Putin comes to his senses.
He already tried to remove sanctions and Congress overrode him.
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Old 07-23-2017, 09:07 PM
 
Location: Chesapeake Bay
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Originally Posted by GotHereQuickAsICould View Post
I love economic sanctions. It reminds me of the shunning of the Amish.

Either play by the rules or we won't play with you.

Putin isn't playing by the rules, and Russia's economy is paying the price. There is no reason on God's green earth that we should be backing off sanctions over matters that continue.

The U.S. isn't playing by the rules either and we need to stop it.

As some of you may be aware, I am not a member of the Trump team, but if Trump brought everybody home, I'd wear one of those goofy red hats.

We need to march our silly selves out of Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, ... you name it.

As far as I'm concerned, you might as well bring the fighter pilots home from Aviano, Italy as well. They couldn't get it organized to get to that fight in Benghazi which was two hours away. Had they been still sitting alert at the airfield in the toe of Italy, they would have been about a half hour away. Even if they thought the battle would be over by the time they got there, they could have given it a shot. They might have been able to repel that second wave.

If fighter pilots can't get to a fight, what good are they? Might as well send a drone.

We are spending far too much on Middle East problems that we cannot solve. I say give the Kurds a shot at their own country and call it good.

But that's just me, I suspect.
Nothing the AF could have done about Benghazi. Later attacks were repelled.
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Old 07-23-2017, 09:07 PM
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China has hacked every major corporation, the fdic, millions of federal employees, 20+million Americans, etc and what goes without saying(military). Sanctions anyone?
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Old 07-23-2017, 09:08 PM
 
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There is no proof of any of that.
You don't know that. The intelligence community is not going to share that information with us. Personally, I believe the FBI and the CIA director more than I believe Trump.
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