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General Category => Editorial/Opinion/Blogs => Topic started by: Right_in_Virginia on June 05, 2019, 11:15:58 am
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Before bashing Trump, European leaders need a history lesson
NY Post, Jun 5, 2019, Michael Goodwin
President Trump will take part in ceremonies in England and then in Normandy, France, where the German bunkers, bomb craters and the vast American cemetery stand in silent testament to the great alliance that came ashore and defeated Hitler.
Indeed it was great, perhaps the greatest wartime alliance in history, but could it be done again? If, God forbid, another Hitler were carving up Europe like warm bread, would a new international force respond to storm the beaches and save civilization?
Merely to ask the question is to suggest the unhappy answer. The West ain’t what it used to be.
This will come as news to many in London, Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam and Brussels, but Donald Trump didn’t cause the decline of the West. In fact, among his supporters, the decline of America largely explains why he was elected in the first place.
Yet to hear the London demonstrators and some foolish British politicians, Trump is the biggest problem in the world. If it weren’t for him, the lion and the lamb could lay down together.
Sure, all you would need is a new lamb each morning.
Read more: https://nypost.com/2019/06/04/before-bashing-trump-european-leaders-need-a-history-lesson/
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Then along comes Trump with his America First agenda and instantly he’s the skunk at their garden party. He demands, outrageously in their view, that Europe finally pay its fair share for the common defense, a promise often made but never kept.
They hate his insistence on border security, even as their nations are roiled by their own influx of uninvited migrants. They hate him for this and they hate him for that, but most of all, they hate him for being so damn American.
Give us a citizen of the world, they say, give us another Barack Obama. Give us somebody who flatters us and apologizes for America.
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Give us a citizen of the world, they say, give us another Barack Obama. Give us somebody who flatters us and apologizes for America.
Give them another Ronald Reagan, one who is able to articulate American values and doesn't apologize for America.