but his rise in popularity has many parallels to Hitler's
Please list the many parallels
This may be an aid
[h=1]Reasons why Hitler rose to power[/h]
- Hitler was a great speaker, with the power to make people support him.
- The moderate political parties would not work together, although together they had more support than the Nazis.
- The depression of 1929 created poverty and unemployment, which made people angry with the Weimar government. People lost confidence in the democratic system and turned towards the extremist political parties such as the Communists and Nazis during the depression.
- The Nazi storm troopers attacked Hitler's opponents.
- Goebbels' propaganda campaign was very effective and it won support for the Nazis. The Nazis targeted specific groups of society with different slogans and policies to win their support.
- Hitler was given power in a seedy political deal by Hindenburg and Papen who foolishly thought they could control him.
- German people were still angry about the Treaty of Versailles and supported Hitler because he promised to overturn it.
- Industrialists gave Hitler money and support.
Further help for the Guesser
Expanding point 4.
In 1921 Hitler set up a group within the NSDAP that would protect his political meetings from attacks by rivals. It gave a military look, feel and discipline to the party. This group was known as the ‘stormtroopers’ (Sturm Abteilung – SA) or ‘Brownshirts’.
Many members of the SA were former soldiers unemployed since the end of the war. As the SA grew in size, rather than simply protecting Hitler and Nazi meetings from opponents, they began to disrupt the meetings of rival political groups.
As the Nazis gained power through democratic means, the SA gained a reputation as a well-organised gang of violent thugs. This frightened and put many off Nazism, but others were attracted by the organisation and discipline of a uniformed group.
Expanding point 4.
- The Nazi storm troopers attacked Hitler's opponents.
In 1921 Hitler set up a group within the NSDAP that would protect his political meetings from attacks by rivals. It gave a military look, feel and discipline to the party. This group was known as the ‘stormtroopers’ (Sturm Abteilung – SA) or ‘Brownshirts’.
Many members of the SA were former soldiers unemployed since the end of the war. As the SA grew in size, rather than simply protecting Hitler and Nazi meetings from opponents, they began to disrupt the meetings of rival political groups.
As the Nazis gained power through democratic means, the SA gained a reputation as a well-organised gang of violent thugs. This frightened and put many off Nazism, but others were attracted by the organisation and discipline of a uniformed group.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/...warning-for-Donald-Trump-and-GOP?detail=email
Ted Koppel appeared on Meet the Press with Chuck Todd. He laid out perfectly the damage that Donald Trump is doing. Referring to Trump and his supporters he said the following:
"The irony is that they think they are being tough on ISIS," Ted Koppel said. "And Trump thinks he is being tough on ISIS. Senator Rubio in his interview with you touched on it very very lightly. Donald Trump is in effect the recruiter in chief for ISIS. ISIS wants nothing more right now than to have the world divided into Judaeo Christian on one side and the Muslim world on the other. That is exactly what Trump is doing for them. I think it's time we started thinking about what ISIS wants and then not doing it."
In other words Ted Koppel is just pointing out the obvious. Instead of playing into the hands of ISIS as Donald Trump is doing right now by given them the semblance of a culture war effected by America and the West, it is imperative that we show that we embrace multiculturalism. It is unlikely that those who are embraced will be easily persuaded to radicalize themselves.
Ted Koppel appeared on Meet the Press with Chuck Todd. He laid out perfectly the damage that Donald Trump is doing. Referring to Trump and his supporters he said the following:
"The irony is that they think they are being tough on ISIS," Ted Koppel said. "And Trump thinks he is being tough on ISIS. Senator Rubio in his interview with you touched on it very very lightly. Donald Trump is in effect the recruiter in chief for ISIS. ISIS wants nothing more right now than to have the world divided into Judaeo Christian on one side and the Muslim world on the other. That is exactly what Trump is doing for them. I think it's time we started thinking about what ISIS wants and then not doing it."
In other words Ted Koppel is just pointing out the obvious. Instead of playing into the hands of ISIS as Donald Trump is doing right now by given them the semblance of a culture war effected by America and the West, it is imperative that we show that we embrace multiculturalism. It is unlikely that those who are embraced will be easily persuaded to radicalize themselves.
Olivia Nuzzi Kill ‘Em All
12.15.1511:35 PM ET
Cruz and Trump’s ISIS Plans Sound a Lot Like War Crimes
The GOP debate wasn’t exactly a banner night for the Geneva Convention—or the Bill of Rights.
Carpet-bombing with no regard for civilian casualties. Murdering the possibly-innocent families of terrorists just to make a point. The line between official U.S. policy and action movie fantasy was unfortunately blurred during the Republican debate on Tuesday night, when Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, the frontrunners for the nomination—Trump with 33 percent in the polls, Cruz with 16—tried to out-macho one another on foreign policy.
The result was both candidates doubling down on strategies that involve war crimes.
Cruz has often said that he wants to “carpet-bomb ISIS into oblivion,” joking that we’ll find out of “sand can glow in the dark” in the process.
Asked by CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, “Does that mean leveling the ISIS capital of Raqqa in Syria, where there are hundreds of thousands of civilians?”
Cruz replied, “what it means is using overwhelming airpower to utterly and completely destroy ISIS.”
By way of example, he pointed to the first Gulf War, when “we carpet-bombed them for 37 days, saturation bombing, after which our troops went in and in a day and a half, mopped up what was left of the Iraqi army.”
The architects of that Gulf War effort, which featured the first major use of precision-guided bombs, would probably disagree that it was was “saturation” or “carpet” bombing. And according to the International Criminal Court, war crimes include “intentionally directing attacks against the civilian population.” Cruz said the objective would be to kill members of ISIS, not civilians, but there’s no such thing as a precise, narrowly-targeted carpet-bombing campaign. The tactic, which began in the Spanish Civil War and flowered fully in World War II, is to drop thousands of munitions on a single area—and flatten in. It is the opposite of precise.
Not long after Cruz’s exchange, Trump was asked a question by Josh Jacob, an earnest, yellow sweater vest-wearing student from Georgia Tech. He wanted to know how Trump justified his assertion that the U.S. should kill the families of terrorists, when that “violates the principle of distinction between combatants and family members.”
He asked, “How would intentionally killing innocent civilians set us apart from ISIS?”
Trump puffed up like a blowfish. “We have to be much tougher and stronger than we’ve been,” he said. He pointed to the San Bernardino attack, arguing that people who knew the terrorist husband and wife no doubt were aware that they were up to no good. “They knew exactly what was going on,” he said.
“When you had the World Trade center go, people were put into planes that were friends, family, girlfriends, and they were put into planes and they were sent back, for the most part, to Saudi Arabia,” Trump said. “They knew what was going on. They went home and wanted to watch their boyfriends on television.”
To Trump, there is no possibility that the families, friends or loved ones of terrorists could be disconnected from terrorism, and so, “I would be very, very firm with families. And, frankly, that will make people think—because they may not care much about their lives, but they do care, believe it or not, about their families’ lives.”
Earlier this month, Trump was even bolder. “When you get these terrorists, you have to take out their families,” he said on Fox & Friends. “You have to take our their families.”
Inconveniently enough for Trump, murder is also classified as a war crime.
But that may not matter to the audience at the debate.
Advocating for breaking international humanitarian laws almost looked reasonable next to Trump’s North Korea-influenced proposal to “close” parts of the internet frequented by terrorists. (As if the U.S. doesn’t gather all sorts of intelligence from those corners of the digital world.)
And applause predictably broke out when Hillary et al. were criticized for failing to decry “Islamic terror.”
Other ideas, like Rand Paul’s meek suggestion that America might perhaps consider the Bill of Rights from time to time, hardly received any notice.
Funny, the same thing could be said about the Stuttering Clusterfuck.
Fake charisma with zero substance (except the Stuttering Clusterfuck's resume to this day isn't even in the same universe as Trump's, so Donald wins the substance argument).
Fear of others? What, you don't think Americans should be a tad afraid of people whose openly stated goal is to kill us in the name of our religion? Especially when every indicator shows our current POTUS as being less than serious about fighting back?
You're a fucking moron, Guesser. You worship a leader whose response is to turn around and attack the rights of his own country's citizens instead of going after those who want to kill us.
"war crimes" 
Olivia Nuzzi looks like she'd be a great fuck, but that's about it.
I can hear the libtards screeching..."THOSE AREN'T OUR VALUES!"
Yeah, neither is shutting down an entire city school system because the fucking pussy in the White Hut can't even call a spade a spade!
Hussein and The Guesser's values:
Meanwhile...
Trump's Primary Lead Is Bigger Than Hillary's
And larger than Reagan's in 1980, and Bush's in 1988.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/trumps-primary-lead-is-bigger-than-hillarys/article/2000234
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Olivia Nuzzi looks like she'd be a great fuck, but that's about it.
I can hear the libtards screeching..."THOSE AREN'T OUR VALUES!"
Yeah, neither is shutting down an entire city school system because the fucking pussy in the White Hut can't even call a spade a spade!
Hussein and The Guesser's values:
Meanwhile...
Trump's Primary Lead Is Bigger Than Hillary's
And larger than Reagan's in 1980, and Bush's in 1988.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/trumps-primary-lead-is-bigger-than-hillarys/article/2000234
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Election 2016
Trump's Sick Predecessors: 6 Racist Bullies Who Stirred Up Americans' Basest Instincts
The Donald did not invent this particular brand of xenophobia and demagoguery.
By David Rosen / AlterNet
December 10, 2015
77 COMMENTS
With the help of the mainstream media, Donald Trump is fueling a deep-seated nativist paranoia that has a long history in this country. Loud-mouthed political bullies have been part of the American political system since its earliest days. America’s past is littered with the legacies of political demagogues like Trump and some of his Republican cronies
Here are six demagogues from American history who riled up Americans' basest instincts.
1. John Adams (1735-1825). One of the nation’s Founding Fathers, Adams led the first anti-immigrant and anti-free-speech campaigns, and his efforts were successful. He led the congressional campaign to pass four laws in 1798 known as the Alien & Sedition Acts. As the second president, Adams warned of the dangers of foreign influence within the U.S. and said they must be "exterminated."
In the wake of the French Revolution and the ongoing wars between France and Britain, the nation was divided. The Federalists, led by Adams, backed the British and were opposed to the radical ideas inspired by France Revolution, while the Republicans, led by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, were more sympathetic of the French. The battle over the Alien & Sedition Acts was posed as loyalty to the Constitution versus loyalty to the U.S. government. Jefferson’s election in 1800 ended the tyranny of the Alien & Sedition Acts.
2. Millard Fillmore (1800-1874) was the 13th president. After leaving office in 1853, he championed a virulent anti-immigrant movement know as the Know Nothings. The movement grew out of the Second Great Awakening or the Great Revival of the 1830s and became the American Party, which flourished during the late '40s and early ‘50s. It got its name when members were asked the party’s positions and simply said, "I know nothing."
Religious intolerance led to numerous anti-Catholic attacks, including the burning of churches, random beatings and the killings of ostensible Catholics in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington and Louisville, where 22 people were murdered. In the 1850s, the American Party captured the Massachusetts legislature in 1854; in 1856, it backed Millard Fillmore for president, who secured nearly 1 million votes, a quarter of all votes cast. The movement collapsed in the face of the Civil War.
3. A. Mitchell Palmer (1872-1936). As attorney general from 1919 to 1921, he recruited J. Edgar Hoover as a special assistant to oversee what became known as the Palmer Raids, the mass arrest and/or deportation of alleged subversives. In the wake of WWI, he warned that communism was "eating its way into the homes of the American workman." The Sedition Act (1918) expanded the Espionage Act of 1917 to cover the expression of any opinion that cast the government or the war effort in a negative light.
In June 1919, Palmer’s Washington D.C. house was bombed, followed by bombings in seven other cities killing two people. In response, Palmer launched a series of raids. On Nov. 7, 1919, on the second anniversary of the Russian Revolution, over 10,000 alleged communists and anarchists were arrested on suspicion of planning a revolutionary uprising. No evidence was found, nevertheless, Emma Goldman, Alexander Berkman and another 245 people were deported to Russia. On Jan. 2, 1920, Hoover rounded up another 6,000 alleged subversives, who were held without trial. Following Palmer's announcement that a communist revolution was likely to take place on May 1, mass panic took place. In New York, five elected socialists were expelled from the legislature.
4. Karl Bendetsen (1907-1989) was the architect of Japanese-American internment during WWII. While the FBI and the Office of Naval Intelligence found that the vast majority of Americans of Japanese ancestry were loyal, Bendetsen took a hard line against all Japanese Americans. He drafted what became known as Executive Order 9066, which President Franklin Roosevelt signed on Feb. 19, 1942, ordering the forced relocation and incarceration of between 110,000 and 120,000 Japanese Americans living along the West Coast. Nearly two-thirds (62%) of those interned were loyal U.S. citizens. Bendetsen ordered that any person with "one drop of Japanese blood" had to be interned, including infants and children in orphanages and even hospital patients, some of whom died on the way to a prison camp. He even opposed Japanese American soldiers serving in the war effort from returning to the West Coast.
In 1988, Pres. Ronald Reagan signed the Civil Liberties Act to compensate more than 100,000 Japanese Americans who had been incarcerated in WWII internment camps. The legislation offered a formal apology and paid out $20,000 in compensation to each surviving victim.
5. Joseph McCarthy (1908-1957). In February 1950, Sen. McCarthy (R-WI) announced in Wheeling, WV, “I have in my hand a list of 205 cases of individuals who appear to be either card-carrying members or certainly loyal to the Communist Party.” McCarthy’s list was never formally made public and he kept changing the number of alleged communists depending on the audience he was addressing
McCarthy investigated communist subversives as well as “homosexuals and other sex perverts” working for the government. In 1953, he held hearings at New York’s federal courthouse grilling subversive writers, notably the novelist Howard Fast, newspaper columnist Drew Pearson and Louis Budenz, the former editor of the Daily Worker. In 1954, in a hearing over alleged communists in the U.S. Army, he had his legendary showdown with Joseph Welch, counsel to the Army. Welch asked simply: “Have you no sense of decency, sir?” The encounter broke McCarthy; he was stripped of his committee chairmanship and died in ’57, a drunk, defeated man.
6. David Duke (b/1950). This neo-Nazi political pugilist has sputtered at the periphery of U.S. politics for nearly five decades and now calls Austria home. Earlier this year he came out for Trump, reportedly declaring, "Trump is really going all out. He's saying what no other Republicans have said, few conservatives say."
As a student at Louisiana State University, Duke was enamored of George Lincoln Rockwell, founder of the postwar American Nazi Party, who he called "the greatest American who ever lived." In 1970, he founded the White Youth Alliance, a student group affiliated with the National Socialist White People's Party. A couple of years later, he founded the Knights of the Klu Klux Klan, and in the words of the Southern Poverty Law Center, oversaw the “Nazification of the Klan” by shifting its ideological target from racism to anti-Semitism.
In the late ‘70s, looking to move up the political food chain, Duke ran for a seat in the Louisiana Senate as a conservative Democrat but lost. In 1981, he set up the National Association for the Advancement of White People, which a critic called, the "Klan without the sheets." In ’89 and running as a Republican, he won a special low-turnout election to the Louisiana State House, and in 1990, he ran in the primary for a U.S. Senate seat and lost. The following year he ran for governor—it was a runoff election with the Democratic candidate, Edwin Edwards, and Duke lost again. In 2002, his past caught up with him; he was arrested and pleaded guilty to felony mail and tax fraud charges and he served 15 months in a federal prison and was fined $10,000.
Trump's Sick Predecessors: 6 Racist Bullies Who Stirred Up Americans' Basest Instincts
The Donald did not invent this particular brand of xenophobia and demagoguery.
By David Rosen / AlterNet
December 10, 2015
77 COMMENTS
With the help of the mainstream media, Donald Trump is fueling a deep-seated nativist paranoia that has a long history in this country. Loud-mouthed political bullies have been part of the American political system since its earliest days. America’s past is littered with the legacies of political demagogues like Trump and some of his Republican cronies
Here are six demagogues from American history who riled up Americans' basest instincts.
1. John Adams (1735-1825). One of the nation’s Founding Fathers, Adams led the first anti-immigrant and anti-free-speech campaigns, and his efforts were successful. He led the congressional campaign to pass four laws in 1798 known as the Alien & Sedition Acts. As the second president, Adams warned of the dangers of foreign influence within the U.S. and said they must be "exterminated."
In the wake of the French Revolution and the ongoing wars between France and Britain, the nation was divided. The Federalists, led by Adams, backed the British and were opposed to the radical ideas inspired by France Revolution, while the Republicans, led by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, were more sympathetic of the French. The battle over the Alien & Sedition Acts was posed as loyalty to the Constitution versus loyalty to the U.S. government. Jefferson’s election in 1800 ended the tyranny of the Alien & Sedition Acts.
2. Millard Fillmore (1800-1874) was the 13th president. After leaving office in 1853, he championed a virulent anti-immigrant movement know as the Know Nothings. The movement grew out of the Second Great Awakening or the Great Revival of the 1830s and became the American Party, which flourished during the late '40s and early ‘50s. It got its name when members were asked the party’s positions and simply said, "I know nothing."
Religious intolerance led to numerous anti-Catholic attacks, including the burning of churches, random beatings and the killings of ostensible Catholics in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington and Louisville, where 22 people were murdered. In the 1850s, the American Party captured the Massachusetts legislature in 1854; in 1856, it backed Millard Fillmore for president, who secured nearly 1 million votes, a quarter of all votes cast. The movement collapsed in the face of the Civil War.
3. A. Mitchell Palmer (1872-1936). As attorney general from 1919 to 1921, he recruited J. Edgar Hoover as a special assistant to oversee what became known as the Palmer Raids, the mass arrest and/or deportation of alleged subversives. In the wake of WWI, he warned that communism was "eating its way into the homes of the American workman." The Sedition Act (1918) expanded the Espionage Act of 1917 to cover the expression of any opinion that cast the government or the war effort in a negative light.
In June 1919, Palmer’s Washington D.C. house was bombed, followed by bombings in seven other cities killing two people. In response, Palmer launched a series of raids. On Nov. 7, 1919, on the second anniversary of the Russian Revolution, over 10,000 alleged communists and anarchists were arrested on suspicion of planning a revolutionary uprising. No evidence was found, nevertheless, Emma Goldman, Alexander Berkman and another 245 people were deported to Russia. On Jan. 2, 1920, Hoover rounded up another 6,000 alleged subversives, who were held without trial. Following Palmer's announcement that a communist revolution was likely to take place on May 1, mass panic took place. In New York, five elected socialists were expelled from the legislature.
4. Karl Bendetsen (1907-1989) was the architect of Japanese-American internment during WWII. While the FBI and the Office of Naval Intelligence found that the vast majority of Americans of Japanese ancestry were loyal, Bendetsen took a hard line against all Japanese Americans. He drafted what became known as Executive Order 9066, which President Franklin Roosevelt signed on Feb. 19, 1942, ordering the forced relocation and incarceration of between 110,000 and 120,000 Japanese Americans living along the West Coast. Nearly two-thirds (62%) of those interned were loyal U.S. citizens. Bendetsen ordered that any person with "one drop of Japanese blood" had to be interned, including infants and children in orphanages and even hospital patients, some of whom died on the way to a prison camp. He even opposed Japanese American soldiers serving in the war effort from returning to the West Coast.
In 1988, Pres. Ronald Reagan signed the Civil Liberties Act to compensate more than 100,000 Japanese Americans who had been incarcerated in WWII internment camps. The legislation offered a formal apology and paid out $20,000 in compensation to each surviving victim.
5. Joseph McCarthy (1908-1957). In February 1950, Sen. McCarthy (R-WI) announced in Wheeling, WV, “I have in my hand a list of 205 cases of individuals who appear to be either card-carrying members or certainly loyal to the Communist Party.” McCarthy’s list was never formally made public and he kept changing the number of alleged communists depending on the audience he was addressing
McCarthy investigated communist subversives as well as “homosexuals and other sex perverts” working for the government. In 1953, he held hearings at New York’s federal courthouse grilling subversive writers, notably the novelist Howard Fast, newspaper columnist Drew Pearson and Louis Budenz, the former editor of the Daily Worker. In 1954, in a hearing over alleged communists in the U.S. Army, he had his legendary showdown with Joseph Welch, counsel to the Army. Welch asked simply: “Have you no sense of decency, sir?” The encounter broke McCarthy; he was stripped of his committee chairmanship and died in ’57, a drunk, defeated man.
6. David Duke (b/1950). This neo-Nazi political pugilist has sputtered at the periphery of U.S. politics for nearly five decades and now calls Austria home. Earlier this year he came out for Trump, reportedly declaring, "Trump is really going all out. He's saying what no other Republicans have said, few conservatives say."
As a student at Louisiana State University, Duke was enamored of George Lincoln Rockwell, founder of the postwar American Nazi Party, who he called "the greatest American who ever lived." In 1970, he founded the White Youth Alliance, a student group affiliated with the National Socialist White People's Party. A couple of years later, he founded the Knights of the Klu Klux Klan, and in the words of the Southern Poverty Law Center, oversaw the “Nazification of the Klan” by shifting its ideological target from racism to anti-Semitism.
In the late ‘70s, looking to move up the political food chain, Duke ran for a seat in the Louisiana Senate as a conservative Democrat but lost. In 1981, he set up the National Association for the Advancement of White People, which a critic called, the "Klan without the sheets." In ’89 and running as a Republican, he won a special low-turnout election to the Louisiana State House, and in 1990, he ran in the primary for a U.S. Senate seat and lost. The following year he ran for governor—it was a runoff election with the Democratic candidate, Edwin Edwards, and Duke lost again. In 2002, his past caught up with him; he was arrested and pleaded guilty to felony mail and tax fraud charges and he served 15 months in a federal prison and was fined $10,000.
Kill ‘Em All
12.15.1511:35 PM ET
Cruz and Trump’s ISIS Plans Sound a Lot Like War Crimes
The GOP debate wasn’t exactly a banner night for the Geneva Convention—or the Bill of Rights.
Carpet-bombing with no regard for civilian casualties. Murdering the possibly-innocent families of terrorists just to make a point. The line between official U.S. policy and action movie fantasy was unfortunately blurred during the Republican debate on Tuesday night, when Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, the frontrunners for the nomination—Trump with 33 percent in the polls, Cruz with 16—tried to out-macho one another on foreign policy.
The result was both candidates doubling down on strategies that involve war crimes.
Cruz has often said that he wants to “carpet-bomb ISIS into oblivion,” joking that we’ll find out of “sand can glow in the dark” in the process.
Asked by CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, “Does that mean leveling the ISIS capital of Raqqa in Syria, where there are hundreds of thousands of civilians?”
Cruz replied, “what it means is using overwhelming airpower to utterly and completely destroy ISIS.”
By way of example, he pointed to the first Gulf War, when “we carpet-bombed them for 37 days, saturation bombing, after which our troops went in and in a day and a half, mopped up what was left of the Iraqi army.”
The architects of that Gulf War effort, which featured the first major use of precision-guided bombs, would probably disagree that it was was “saturation” or “carpet” bombing. And according to the International Criminal Court, war crimes include “intentionally directing attacks against the civilian population.” Cruz said the objective would be to kill members of ISIS, not civilians, but there’s no such thing as a precise, narrowly-targeted carpet-bombing campaign. The tactic, which began in the Spanish Civil War and flowered fully in World War II, is to drop thousands of munitions on a single area—and flatten in. It is the opposite of precise.
Not long after Cruz’s exchange, Trump was asked a question by Josh Jacob, an earnest, yellow sweater vest-wearing student from Georgia Tech. He wanted to know how Trump justified his assertion that the U.S. should kill the families of terrorists, when that “violates the principle of distinction between combatants and family members.”
He asked, “How would intentionally killing innocent civilians set us apart from ISIS?”
Trump puffed up like a blowfish. “We have to be much tougher and stronger than we’ve been,” he said. He pointed to the San Bernardino attack, arguing that people who knew the terrorist husband and wife no doubt were aware that they were up to no good. “They knew exactly what was going on,” he said.
“When you had the World Trade center go, people were put into planes that were friends, family, girlfriends, and they were put into planes and they were sent back, for the most part, to Saudi Arabia,” Trump said. “They knew what was going on. They went home and wanted to watch their boyfriends on television.”
To Trump, there is no possibility that the families, friends or loved ones of terrorists could be disconnected from terrorism, and so, “I would be very, very firm with families. And, frankly, that will make people think—because they may not care much about their lives, but they do care, believe it or not, about their families’ lives.”
Earlier this month, Trump was even bolder. “When you get these terrorists, you have to take out their families,” he said on Fox & Friends. “You have to take our their families.”
Inconveniently enough for Trump, murder is also classified as a war crime.
But that may not matter to the audience at the debate.
Advocating for breaking international humanitarian laws almost looked reasonable next to Trump’s North Korea-influenced proposal to “close” parts of the internet frequented by terrorists. (As if the U.S. doesn’t gather all sorts of intelligence from those corners of the digital world.)
And applause predictably broke out when Hillary et al. were criticized for failing to decry “Islamic terror.”
Other ideas, like Rand Paul’s meek suggestion that America might perhaps consider the Bill of Rights from time to time, hardly received any notice.
BLITZER: Ms. Fiorina, the former defense secretary, Bob Gates, says the chances of getting Sunni-Arab forces on the ground to get the job done, his words, "chances very remote." What's your strategy?
FIORINA: Well, first I'll just point out that talking tough is not the same as being strong. And to wage war, we need a commander in chief who has made tough calls in tough times and stood up to be held accountable over and over, not first-term senators who've never made an executive decision in their life.
One of the things I would immediately do, in addition to defeating them here at home, is bring back the warrior class -- Petraeus, McChrystal, Mattis, Keane, Flynn. Every single one of these generals I know. Every one was retired early because they told President Obama things that he didn't want to hear.
We must have Sunni-Arabs involved in this coalition. We must commit leadership, strength, support and resolve. I'll just add that Margaret Thatcher once said, "If you want something talked about, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman."
