{"id":76364,"date":"2017-12-07T09:00:28","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T14:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=76364"},"modified":"2017-12-07T09:46:55","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T14:46:55","slug":"cnn-donald-trump-keeper-of-promises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=76364","title":{"rendered":"CNN: Donald Trump — keeper of promises"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, President Trump honored another campaign promise – he announced that the US would move our embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. Of course, the media expressed their surprise that he would do what he said he’d do. In CNN<\/a>, Stephen Collinson writes, you know, how dare he?<\/p>\n

So far, the President has not paid a tangible price for living up to his most controversial promises. But he is taking big risks, especially internationally, and a reckoning may yet come.<\/p>\n

Washington has yet to learn whether the backlash among its allies over Trump’s latest declaration will leave it alone in an hour of need. Anyway, Trump supporters who believe in his America First concept care little that the President is infuriating the country’s friends around the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Several previous presidents have promised to do this, but they didn’t have the political courage to actually do it. Mostly, they wouldn’t do it because of their fear of the violence that it would cause in Jerusalem and around the Middle East – essentially, our policy was held hostage to terrorism. By not recognizing Israel’s capital, we acquiesced to that threat of terrorism, the terrorists won.<\/p>\n

There is a reason Trump was breaking ground on Jerusalem: Previous presidents judged that the political capital they could gain with a similar move was not justified by the risks. Those have included concerns of inciting Middle East violence or offending Palestinians by prejudging final status peace talks on Jerusalem, a city they also regard as their future capital.<\/p>\n

The fate of Americans abroad — easy targets in any violent backlash in the Middle East — also weighs heavily on presidential consciences. Trump decided to take the risk anyway.<\/p>\n

Critics might also point out that Trump’s list of promises kept is an incomplete and politically expedient one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If Americans die as a result of this particular Trump mandate, it’s not his fault – it’s fault of whoever pulls the trigger or flips the switch. Why do we have to concede our foreign policy decisions to the mindless violence that drives the extremists of that region?<\/p>\n

CNN should stick to criticizing Trump’s Twitter feed and leave policy to the grown ups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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