“ One can only conclude that, by floating the idea of possible wars, Trump is in some sense defrauding the public. If he’s not being serious about being willing to take military action, then his language is the kind of false bravado that depletes the United States’ credibility and makes him look like a witless cowboy. And if Trump is serious — which I believe is unlikely — then he’s undermining all his talk about how America First means opposing endless war. Trump has no mandate for arbitrarily returning the United States to a new era of old-school colonialism and annexation. Nobody asked for the United States to go to war with a NATO ally or the world’s only other superpower to enhance U.S. supremacy over global waterways.
On the campaign trail, Trump promised to turn inward and wind down U.S. involvement in at least some overseas conflicts. Now, as he toys with the idea of using force to claim more land for the United States, he’s revealing he was either lying on the campaign trail or he’s lying now.”
http://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-gulf-mexico-america-greenland-panama-canal-rcna186632
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