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enhanced_deficit
11-16-2015, 08:14 PM
How did President Reagan manage to have great friendship with Islamic Jihad militants but none of the other Presidents who came after him have been able to develop same kind of bond with Islamic militants?

It is fashionable to be a Reagan Republican these days but no one seems to be able to emulate or even articulate the Reagan success story on foreign relations.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqZ-ToXjCz0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqZ-ToXjCz0

Contumacious
11-16-2015, 08:43 PM
How did President Reagan manage to have great friendship with Islamic Jihad militants but none of the other Presidents who came after him have been able to develop same kind of bond with Islamic militants?

It is fashionable to be a Reagan Republican these days but no one seems to be able to emulate or even articulate the Reagan success story on foreign relations.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqZ-ToXjCz0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqZ-ToXjCz0

Because he wanted to use Ben Laden and the Mujahideen to defeat the USSR in Afghanistan.

He was also a friend of Saddam Hussein ---because he wanted Saddam to invade Iran.


If you are useful they love you otherwise you are a goner.


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enhanced_deficit
11-16-2015, 09:21 PM
Because he wanted to use Ben Laden and the Mujahideen to defeat the USSR in Afghanistan.

He was also a friend of Saddam Hussein ---because he wanted Saddam to invade Iran.


If you are useful they love you otherwise you are a goner.


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Well Russia is rising again under Putin and spreading its influence from Ukraine to Syria, so technically then Obama could build similar strong friendship with Islamic militants to use them to wage jihad against Russia/Syria's Assad.
Obama has some advantage over Reagan, as son of an Islamic man it should be easier for him to build rapport with jihadi militants. But going by recent news, bond between Obama and Islamic militants of Syria/Iraq/Afghanistan is not that strong.

enhanced_deficit
11-17-2015, 08:36 AM
It is fashionable to be a Reagan Republican these days but no one seems to be able to emulate or even articulate the Reagan success story on foreign relations.


I stand corrected, in case of at least the leading Republican these days.


When Donald Trump Hated Ronald Reagan

By Michael D'Antonio
October 25, 2015

In 2016, there are 14 Republican presidential candidates for whom Ronald Reagan is both the benchmark for conservative values and the lodestar of conservative ideas. There’s also one who wrote, in the second to last year of Reagan’s presidency, that he had been “so smooth, so effective a performer” that “only now, seven years later, are people beginning to question whether there’s anything beneath that smile.”
The gadfly was Donald Trump, writing in his book The Art of the Deal. But it wasn’t just a glancing blow; to promote the book, Trump launched a political campaign that tore into Reagan’s record, including his willingness to stand up to the Soviet Union. Advised by the notorious Roger Stone, a Nixon-era GOP trickster, in 1987 Trump took out full-page ads inthe New York Times, the Boston Globe and the Washington Post blasting Reagan and his team.

In the text, which was addressed “To the American people,” Trump declared, “There’s nothing wrong with America’s Foreign Defense Policy that a little backbone can’t cure.” The problem was America’s leading role in defending democracy, which had been fulfilled by Republicans and Democrats all the way back to FDR. Foreshadowing his 2015 argument that would have Mexico pay for an American-built border wall, Trump then said that the United States should present its allies with a bill for defense services rendered.
The ads, which cost more than $90,000, came after Trump had visited the Soviet Union and met with Mikhail Gorbachev. (A few years earlier, Trump had offered himself as a replacement for Reagan’s nuclear arms control negotiators, whom he considered too soft.) Trump followed his letter to America with a trip to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where voters were eyeing the candidates in the 1988 primary.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/10/donald-trump-ronald-reagan-213288

alucard13mm
11-17-2015, 01:23 PM
Carter and reagan fooked us over in terms of jihadists.

timosman
11-17-2015, 01:25 PM
Carter and reagan fooked us over in terms of jihadists.

Nah, it was Brzezinski and his Grand Chessboard.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9RCFZnWGE0

enhanced_deficit
11-17-2015, 09:44 PM
Nah, it was Brzezinski and his Grand Chessboard.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9RCFZnWGE0

Brzezinski, what an amazing motivator of "soldiers of God".

jmdrake
11-18-2015, 01:34 AM
Well Russia is rising again under Putin and spreading its influence from Ukraine to Syria, so technically then Obama could build similar strong friendship with Islamic militants to use them to wage jihad against Russia/Syria's Assad.
Obama has some advantage over Reagan, as son of an Islamic man it should be easier for him to build rapport with jihadi militants. But going by recent news, bond between Obama and Islamic militants of Syria/Iraq/Afghanistan is not that strong.

Not sure if you are serious or trolling...but Obama's jihadists are the Free Syrian Army and they are waging a proxy war against Russia/Assad and they have an on again/off again relationship with ISIS and that's why Putin is bombing the snot out of them.