I’m dying to hear about the “3-D chess” Trump is playing with his
announcement on Monday that he’s breaking his promise on Afghanistan and
throwing more forces into that utterly pointless war. Will he be sending the
transgender troops?
But
then the Emperor God gave a magnificent speech in Arizona Tuesday night.
Curiously, when he talks to voters — as opposed to his Cabinet and White House
staff — there’s very little about sending more U.S. troops to die in the human
meat-grinder of Afghanistan.
Trump
got thunderous applause from his 30,000-person focus group for the wall,
stepped-up deportations and Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio — recently convicted of
contempt for “racially profiling” Hispanics. But you could hear a pin drop when
he mentioned Afghanistan, Nikki Haley and Gen. John Kelly. (At least he had the
good sense not to bring up Goldman Sachs’ Gary Cohn again.)
What
was so refreshingly different about the Trump campaign was that the candidate
didn’t use any of the idiotic, consultant-written bromides offered by every
other GOP presidential candidate for at least the past 30 years. Instead, he
looked around the country, saw what the problems were and said he’d fix them.
Here
are the highlights from every speech by any Non-Trump candidate for the past
several decades:
“I
listened to the American people.”
“People
are frustrated.”
“This
election is about the future!”
It
may not seem like it at first, but another one of those head-scratching cliches
is: “Peace through strength.” During the campaign, this was a staple of knuckleheads
like Jeb!, but I’m sorry to report that our hero used it on the Arizona crowd,
referring to his decision to send more troops to die in Afghanistan for no
earthly purpose. The Swamp is sticky.
When
Reagan said, “peace through strength,” it meant something. But 30 years after
Reagan won the Cold War, anyone who uses this expression conveys only that he
has no understanding of the current war.
During
the Cold War, America was facing an aggressively imperialistic, nuclear-armed
Soviet Union. By contrast, the main threat to Americans’ safety today comes not
from a country, but from millions of individual savages spread throughout the
globe.
Americans
aren’t being slaughtered by invading Soviet troops, “Red Dawn”-style, but by
Islamic terrorists on tourist visas flying commercial airplanes into our
skyscrapers, and by first- and second-generation Muslim immigrants setting off
bombs and shooting people at the Boston Marathon, American military bases,
community centers and gay nightclubs.
Americans
are raped, addicted and murdered not by the Red Army, but by millions of
illegal aliens waltzing across our wide-open border.
Our
freedoms are being taken away not by a foreign power, but by our own government
— in order to protect us from terrorists, international crime rings and Mexican
drug cartels operating in our own country.
Defeating
a non-country adversary may seem an impossible task, but the savages are
perfectly containable. Today’s enemy has no capacity to harm a hair on a single
American’s head — as long as we don’t let them come here.
We
don’t need a military victory. We need an immigration moratorium.
The
Non-Trump Republicans promised us only more immigration and more wars. PEACE
THROUGH STRENGTH!
How
does a military buildup help Kate Steinle? How about the 3,000 Americans killed
on 9/11? Did Obama’s escalation of the war in Afghanistan protect soldiers at
Fort Hood or nightclubbers in Orlando? Did it do anything for Grant Ronnebeck,
who was fatally shot by an illegal alien robbing a convenience store in Mesa,
Arizona, in 2015?
More
than 1,600 American troops died in Afghanistan under Obama, and not one
American is safer.
All
we need to do to win the current war is: Keep our nuclear weapons in working
order and stop allowing enemy forces into our country. If we must have troops
constantly deployed somewhere, the only place they’d actually be useful is 10
feet into Mexico. (Let a court try to stop that!)
During
the campaign, Little Marco dismissed as unrealistic Trump’s proposed temporary
suspension of Muslim immigration to our country — including the more than 2
million Muslims we’ve taken in just since 9/11. Instead, Rubio proposed we do
something achievable, like remake the entire Middle East with wars in Iraq,
Syria, Libya and Afghanistan.
Trump,
and only Trump, promised to put our country first and protect our interests
when it came to immigration and foreign wars. He didn’t care that political
correctness dictated putting America’s interests dead last.
But
since becoming president, instead of draining the swamp, the swamp seems to
have drained Trump. His agenda has been drowned out by the agenda of
Washington’s Uni-Party.
That’s
why all we ever hear about is tax cuts and war (unless Trump is speaking to one
of his 30,000-person focus groups).
Rather
than actually being like Reagan and winning the war we’re in, Trump has decided
to continue Obama’s unconstitutional “executive amnesty” — opposition to which
gave the GOP stunning victories in 2014 and 2016. This week, he grabbed the hot
poker of Afghanistan, allowing ecstatic Democrats to scratch that disaster off
Obama’s Greatest Hits list. Now, it’s Trump’s war.
I
don’t know why Trump would surround himself with people who oppose his agenda,
but on Tuesday night he heard again from the people who see him as our
country’s last hope. He should listen to them.
