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Of course the war was won but that isn’t the issue. Perhaps you and Katie Couric should do documentaries together? The issue was securing an UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER. That is the issue. It was necessary to prevent a great loss of US ad allied personnel in the invasion of Japan. The japanese leadership publicly stated the fight would be to the end and considering the casualties taken in invading Okinawa and Iwo Jima, Truman had every reason to believe them. The decision by japanese leadership to try to use Stalin to get better terms with the allies was fateful. Stalin doublecrossed them to grab more territory. That isn’t Truman’s fault. The japanese ignored the Potsdam Declaration which demanded unconditional surrender or Japan’s immediate destruction. Truman also gave fair warning of the second bomb drop.
The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.
Sprinkles are for winners.
First of all that periodical is very even handed-as it has been for years and years. It essentially is the Christian Science Monitor of the economic world. It is not a political rag.
Your idea that tariffs are the answer simply does not recognize its impact on the purchasing power of the American consumer especially those with limited income. All that will do is make consumer goods far more expensive than what they already are. When that happens demand goes down and when demand goes down we start down the recession road with even more job loss.
There are no easy answers to this such as : Well use the tariff machinery. That’s merely simplicity for the simple minded. The answers lie in global agreements whether they be in “fair” trade solutions and currency discussions with China.
Trump’s goals -much like Sanders-are laudatory but you must have actual doable plans to get into the end-zone.
Its ideology of free trade doesn’t work for the american worker. Tariffs will cut into the profits of those companies wanting to dump goods made offshore while protecting american jobs. The Economist never looks past the next quarter’s profits whereas losing manufacturing jobs has a horrific effect to the communities effected due to the loss of the multiplier effect. Here we live it every day. Trump wants the best negotiators for trade deals not the daughter of a former president whose only qualification is she’s the daughter of a former president. That isn’t simplistic. Its realistic. Its indicative of someone wanting to succeed for the american worker. I find it sad the US worker is not a priority of yours.
The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.
Sprinkles are for winners.
This is good. The more the establishment bashes Trump the more support he garners across the political spectrum.
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I dunno about that. There is a reason Obama never went all ‘attack-mode’
during his campaigns. He could have, but he didn’t. Now, maybe its
just his personality, but i kinda think the algebra favors a calm,
milk-toasty candidate in the end. I mean, sure the rightwingers love it when Trump is attacked and when Trump goes on the attack. The leftwingers (like me) dont care. We already sided with Sanders a long time ago. So who is left? Who will decide the election? The middle-ground, milk-toasties. And my ‘guess’ is, the algebra shows they dont like ‘attackers’ or bombastic-scary candidates.
I mean there is a reason Trump has ‘reined it in’ a bit, right? His handlers are trying to negotiate/maneuver/decide whether and how much “to let trump, be trump” i bet.I could be wrong, of course. I dont really follow campaign-algebra stuff, i just shoot from the hip based on my gut.
PS — i dont think trump is stupid, and i think its a mistake when people think his is or write that he is. I think he’s smarter than Reagan ever was, or G.Bush II. I do think he has huge blind spots, probly in foreign policy, but a lot of candidates have had huge blind spots and still won elections.
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vHe is being told to rein it in but he will always counterpunch hard when attacked. I think the times are so hard so many places in this country that even a good share of the otherwise milquetoast voter will demand change by voting for Trump. What do you consider his blind spots in foreign policy? He gave a prepared speech on his foreign policy a few weeks ago. The other day he did the same on energy policy.
Foreign policy speech before the Center for National Interest on 4/27/16
The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.
Sprinkles are for winners.
I hope we as a nation have learned a few things over the past 35 years.
At least Ronnie didn’t get off on inciting violence through insults.
I trust Trump wants to get things done for working people. That alone is enough to get my vote.
This made me laugh out loud!
Because the joke is on you. Working people are fed up. Good jobs are what matters not the skin color or gender of a candidate.
I agree that working people who consider themselves republican are fed up. Fed up with their choices for the nomination so much that they vote for the loudest, angriest, political outsider on the ticket.
The outsider that campaigns on issues of concern to working people. Trump will get the votes of a lot of working democrats too.
The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.
Sprinkles are for winners.
