{"id":62164,"date":"2015-10-05T09:59:44","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T13:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=62164"},"modified":"2015-10-05T10:23:21","modified_gmt":"2015-10-05T14:23:21","slug":"trump-misses-hussein-and-gaddafi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62164","title":{"rendered":"Trump misses Hussein and Gaddafi"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, Republican front runner, Donald Trump, told NBC’s Chuck Todd that the world would be a better place if only we wouldn’t have disrupted the regimes of Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi, according to Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“You can make the case, if you look at Libya, look at what we did there, it’s a mess,” Trump said on NBC.<\/p>\n

“If you look at Saddam Hussein with Iraq, look what we did there, it’s a mess. It’s going to be the same thing” in Syria, he said.<\/p>\n

Asked by NBC’s Chuck Todd if the Middle East would be more stable with Gaddafi and Saddam in power, Trump replied, “Of course it would be.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, you know, Europe was fairly stable under Napoleon, too. Yugoslavia was certainly more stable under Tito than it has been in recent years. The Soviet Union was stable under Stalin and the Communists. Mao sure stabilized China, too. Just ask the millions of victims of state-sponsored starvation.<\/p>\n

Before we ousted Hussein in 2003, he was the most destabilizing influence in the Middle East – he’d started a ten-year war with Iran, invaded Kuwait, paid bounties to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers in Israel and murdered his own citizens by the thousands. We had to fly over those citizens to protect them from him for more than ten years – while Hussein was taking pot shots at our aircraft with surface-to-air missiles. He massed his troops on the Kuwait border twice after the Gulf War causing the US to deploy troops to our prepositioned equipment in Kuwait. When Hussein was toppled, Gaddafi figured that he was next in the war against terror and gave up his own weapons of mass destruction.<\/p>\n

Gaddafi had bombed the LaBelle Disco in Berlin to kill US soldiers out on the town. He also bombed a commercial aircraft over Lockerbie, Scotland. Yeah, that’s some real stability.<\/p>\n

Trump is just mouthing populist BS, attracting the Ron Paulians to his campaign, but he’s dividing the party, and if I didn’t know better, I’d think he’s trying to make the party lose next year. Actually, I don’t know better, but I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt for the time being.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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