A theme emerging from the Hillary camp is whether or not the U.S. can be lead by an outsider like Trump.
Can we survive an amateur as President? We have so far with the current administration. But it raises a legitimate point. So let's take a short walk down memory lane recalling the last years America has been led by the Real Pros.
Just off the top of my head. The contribution of the Real Pros, in chronological order, starting with Kennedy:
Bay of Pigs
Cuban Missile Crisis
Blockade of Cuba
Nuclear staredown with Russia http://steeleydock.blogspot.com/2015/12/vasili-arkhipov.html
Militarizing Vietnam
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Invading Vietnam
Freezing wages and prices
Iran hostages
Invasion of Iran and Operation Eagle Claw
Rwanda
Mogadishu
Invasion of Iraq
Egyptian Arab Spring
Overthrow of Qaddafi and the creation of the Libyan chaos
Withdrawal from Iraq
Syrian mess, red-line and whatever else they are doing
And only Heaven knows what we are doing with the Russians in the Ukraine and Eastern Europe, with the Chinese in the China Sea, North Korea, and the mysterious Iran Treaty decision.
Now these are just grossly atrocious errors involving military action, not subtle foreign relations or domestic or economic policy which we can not assess. Some of these errors almost ended the world as we know it.
The Real Pros.
Can we survive an amateur as President? We have so far with the current administration. But it raises a legitimate point. So let's take a short walk down memory lane recalling the last years America has been led by the Real Pros.
Just off the top of my head. The contribution of the Real Pros, in chronological order, starting with Kennedy:
Bay of Pigs
Cuban Missile Crisis
Blockade of Cuba
Nuclear staredown with Russia http://steeleydock.blogspot.com/2015/12/vasili-arkhipov.html
Militarizing Vietnam
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Invading Vietnam
Freezing wages and prices
Iran hostages
Invasion of Iran and Operation Eagle Claw
Rwanda
Mogadishu
Invasion of Iraq
Egyptian Arab Spring
Overthrow of Qaddafi and the creation of the Libyan chaos
Withdrawal from Iraq
Syrian mess, red-line and whatever else they are doing
And only Heaven knows what we are doing with the Russians in the Ukraine and Eastern Europe, with the Chinese in the China Sea, North Korea, and the mysterious Iran Treaty decision.
Now these are just grossly atrocious errors involving military action, not subtle foreign relations or domestic or economic policy which we can not assess. Some of these errors almost ended the world as we know it.
The Real Pros.
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