"God bless America and the entire world" ; Neocons' quiet anger over Trump's new slogan?

[enhanced_deficit]

First part is news, second part is opinion based on media silence over this apparent attack on moral exceptionalism that SWC/DGP lobbies usually used to justify bloodbaths in other parts of the world resulting often from greed/racism/revenge driven interventions.
Even though his rhetotic and actions are not necessarily consistent, it's still a remarkable break from recent presidential rhetoric.

Trump breaks precedent by blessing the whole world

By Matthew Nussbaum
04/07/17

After announcing that he’d ordered U.S. missile strikes on a Syrian airfield in response to a chemical weapons attack on civilians, President Donald Trump closed his remarks with a refrain that has been common among presidents since Ronald Reagan: “God bless America.”

But he didn’t stop there. Instead, he went on, adding, “and the entire world.”

Richard Nixon appears to have been the first president to use the phrase “God bless America” in a speech, though it later became a common closing line for Ronald Reagan and his successors.
George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama all closed each of their state of the union addresses with some variation on the line. None extended those blessings to the world.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/0...s-world-236977

[wizardwatson]

I dwell on this prospect with every satisfaction which an ardent love for my Country can inspire: since there is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists in the economy and course of nature, an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness, between duty and advantage, between the genuine maxims of an honest and magnanimous policy, and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity: Since we ought to be no less persuaded that the propitious smiles of Heaven, can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained... - George Washington, First Inaugural Address

You can't do evil and expect God to bless you. Of course, he doesn't really mean it. Just more virtue signaling.

A true man of God sitting in the White House would ask God to forgive the sins this country has committed and lead the people to repent and do the same for themselves.

[juleswin]

Neocons' quiet anger over Trump's new slogan?

It is going to get quieter and quieter over the months as he slowly advances through his metamorphoses and comes out as a beautiful neocon butterfly .

Btw their silence would be inversely proportional to the butt hurt his supporters would be feeling

[enhanced_deficit]

Yea definitely not arguing that there is substance behind such words.. but still this is pretty long journey for American mainstream politics from "axis of evil" to "God bless the entire world" in rhetoric. An evolution of "war on terror" rhetoric at such a stage when currrent POTUS had accused the POTUS he replaced of "founding ISIS"..the evil terrorist group that has been hounding many parts of the world.

[enhanced_deficit]

It is going to get quieter and quieter over the months as he slowly advances through his metamorphoses and comes out as a beautiful neocon butterfly .

Are you confidently predicting that at the end of 8 years Trump would have become a bigger neocon/puppet of necons than last DGP?
Time will tell if Trump would or would not execute next 8 years policies as a political slave of the last DGP's political slave owners. At this point, still think odds are against that.

But words matter a tad bit... for many in America still.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzgFFfqM1HE

[Jan2017]

​When I heard the phrase from Trump, I thought it sounded kinda ominous though . . .
sorta like "I am starting World War III so, . . . God, bless the world"

‘God Bless America’ In Presidential Speeches Has A Little-Known, Uncomfortable Beginning

Richard Nixon dropped the phrase in attempting damage control on April 30, 1973 . . .

“Tonight, I ask for your prayers to help me in everything I do throughout the days of my presidency,” Richard Nixon said.
“God bless America and God bless each and every one of you.”

The phrase didn’t catch on during the Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter years, but Ronald Reagan’s presidency definitively
ushered in the era of “God bless America.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/0...n_4676177.html


The History Behind U.S. Presidents Using ‘God Bless America’ in Official Speeches

Nixon appealed for the nation to pray for him before uttering “God bless America.”

From 1933 through 1981, of 229 major presidential addresses, Domke and Coe said that only one — Nixon’s address —
included the words “God bless America.”

But from Reagan’s inauguration in 1981 through President George W. Bush’s final term in office,
of 129 major presidential speeches, “God bless America” was uttered 49 times.

In 2013, President Obama closed the State of the Union with "God Bless these United States of America."

http://www.theblaze.com/news/2014/01...cial-speeches/