I expect simple behaviours here. Friendship, and love. Any advice should be from the perspective of the person asking, not the person giving! We have had to make new membership moderated to combat the huge number of spammers who register
Location: Western US
Registered: October 2014
Messages: 136
"Jackboy wrote on Thu, 02 March 2017 00:54"
And in the case of a Nation which took the Role of the World's Policeman, had better learn FDR's mantra.
"tread softly and carry a big stick".
Jack
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If you're going to misquote one of our Presidents, you should at least misquote the right one!
That was President TR - THEODORE Roosevelt - and his mantra was "SPEAK softly and carry a big stick." The two men were 5th cousins and separated by 30 years, though they were both pretty intense leaders of the nation.
Teddy's 'arrogance' was well demonstrated when he sent a powerful naval force on a round-the-world cruise to settle any doubt about America's resolve and means for maintaining its independence. Three decades later his 'cuz' was similarly arrogant in the face of the Nazi and Japanese regimes. Although, in fairness, FDR left it to a haberdasher to settle those accounts.
Location: North UK
Registered: August 2016
Messages: 69
Yes Thanks for the correction Chris.
However my point remains unchanged.
Trump still needs to be very careful. He is no international Statesman and an angry comment, shot from the hip
as he certainly does, could cause unspeakable problems for the rest of us.
Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
Messages: 13806
According to The Guardian, a non Fake News media outlet, America First has these roots
Quote:
... Witness the remarks of Steve Bannon, chief strategist in Donald Trump's White House and the former chairman of the far-right Breitbart website. In an interview with the Hollywood Reporter, Bannon promised that the Trump era would be "as exciting as the 1930s". (In the same interview, he said "Darkness is good" citing Satan, Darth Vader and Dick Cheney as examples.)
"Exciting" is not how the 1930s are usually remembered, but Bannon did not choose his words by accident. He is widely credited with the authorship of Trump's inaugural address, which twice used the slogan "America first". That phrase has long been off-limits in US discourse, because it was the name of the movement packed with nativists and antisemites, and personified by the celebrity aviator Charles Lindbergh that sought to keep the US out of the war against Nazi Germany and to make an accommodation with Hitler. Bannon, who considers himself a student of history, will be fully aware of that 1930s association but embraced it anyway.
Trumpy Bumpy is as fasxist as my box of tissues. I do like him and also do not like him. As do with most and they me. The greater populating of USA vote for him, or, well, less than 50%, but over 50% of constitution law.
Location: California
Registered: March 2017
Messages: 21
Trump and his ilk must now attempt to re-define what use to be called treason in the States. Can his campaign legally meet a Russian agent to discuss affecting a free election? Nyet!!!
Beyond that, it seems Russia has assets in the West Wing, personnel they have unknown levels of influence over. Risks need to be mitigated. I hope the right people are minding the nation's security. US allies have similar worries.
Someday this will all end in many interesting books!!
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