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29 sats \ 2 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 14 May \ parent \ on: Trump Vindicates Horton's Law | The Libertarian Institute Politics_And_Law
So far, that is what he appears to say, however, bombing Yemen and threatening Iran doesn’t have very good optics. Coercion is coercion, and that is not called
”dealmaking”!! It is a totally different ballgame, isn’t it?
He has no problem with threats, unfortunately. Even with Yemen, though, he sought to end the violence pretty quickly.
The episode that I found most telling was in his first term. Iran had just shot down a US drone (or something like that) and all of his advisors were pushing him to retaliate with a missile strike against a base. He asked a question that these psychos never seem interested in: "How many people will die if we strike that base?" He decided not to do the strike because he didn't think it was worth the loss of Iranian lives.
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Yes, that is the question for a non-psychopathic leader to ask before going into conflict. Unfortunately, there are a lot of these neo-con psychopaths around the halls of power. They seem to be attracted like flies on excrement. They also don’t care a whit about how many people die, as long as it is not their people. Trump is right in turfing them out when they get too strident.
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