04-08-2017, 07:03 PM
(04-08-2017, 08:14 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(04-08-2017, 07:44 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: Approvals for President Trump will likely rise a little in the aftermath of the bombing raid on Syria. I question whether the President has achieved any permanent solution. I'm no fan of the death penalty, but a leader who gasses helpless civilians deserves to die at the end of a rope.
I'm waiting on the polls. A lot of the America First crowd doesn't like use of force for moral reasons. They haven't a love for the World's Policeman role. Trump went against the red stereotype here.
That's a Republican view from the 1930s and 40s; not today. Trump's base will like his strike. Liberal peace-movement veterans are the ones who don't like use of force for moral reasons, plus a few thorough-going libertarians like Rand Paul and Ron Paul. Most of the red crowd only uses this as a slogan to justify unrestrained greed; they could really care less about the use of force otherwise. They applaud it.