In the many strategies proposed to defeat the Islamic State (IS) by presidential candidates, policymakers, and media pundits alike across the American political spectrum, one common element stands out: someone else should really do it.
Submitted by Bill Bonner of Bonner & Partners (annotated by Acting-Man.com's Pater Tenebrarum),
Ganging up on the Donald
Poor Donald Trump. Everybody’s against him.
Jeb Bush says he’s “unhinged”...
...Chris Christie says he has “no idea what [he’s] talking about”...
...John Kasich accuses him of “outrageous divisiveness”…
The Donald – in reality, they love him…
...and Marco Rubio describes him as “offensive and outlandish.”
Whatever one's opinion of the Muslim attacks and the perpetrators behind them, one thing is without dispute - the French response, which has been to quickly impose unlimited emergency laws, is nothing short of the second coming of "Operation Gladio."
In addition to warrantless searches and raids, France's state of emergency laws allow the government to put people under house arrest, seal the country's borders and ban demonstrations. The laws were created during the Algerian war in 1955.
I come here today not to praise Trump but not to bury him either: the longer his vicious vanity campaign lasts, the more calamity Trump brings to the insular, reactionary Republican brand. Trump = mayhem. His meteoric rise, though apparent only in the poll-iverse, has gone where no celebrated agent provocateur has gone before: not Palin nor Cain, Carson, Gingrich, Sanctorum or Huckabee unify foes like |Trump.
Moments ago, the latest high profile media figure to boldly go into the rapidly spreading Trump "ban Muslims" scandal, was none other than Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who in a post on his social network, took the other side of Trump declaring that "Muslims are always welcome here" and that Facebook will "fight to protect your rights and create a peaceful and safe environment for you." It was not immediately clear if the "community" he was welcoming Muslims to is the United States or the online world of Facebook ad clickers.