10-13-2016, 06:39 PM
(10-13-2016, 04:59 PM)Dill Wrote: Sorry my comments riled you, Roto; you are a good guy, and I don't want a flame war with you.
But I do stick by my point about Johnson's lack of foreign policy knowledge.
Neither of the questions he flunked was a "trap," and neither required any special briefing. It's no defense that Trump
says equally stupid things.
Perhaps many Americans know little of Aleppo, but what "average" Americans know is not the standard for president.
(Could he not recognize Aleppo, but recognize names like Dabiq, Al Raqqa, or group names like Al Nusra? very doubtful.)
Whatever "proposals" he has put forward regarding the Middle-East, they do not appear based upon a long-standing familiarity with problems in a region which has been the storm center of U.S. foreign policy since 1979.
And someone running for president should be able to reel off a number of world leaders worthy of praise, as
many average Americans can. Johnson may indeed be a great individual, someone I would be happy to have as a
friend and neighbor. I don't doubt he was a great governor, and I could vote for him at the local/state level over most any Republican. But I want someone running for president to know more than I do about foreign policy.
I don't understand why you think my comments presume greater concern for children of Syria than those of Africa or
wherever. Concern for children is not a zero sum game, as if empathy with children suffering one country automatically devalues children somewhere else. If I band aid a child who has fallen off his bike on my sidewalk, it hardly means I think his life is more valuable the life of a child in Angola.
FWIW... I don't dislike anyone here and rarely get even remotely upset on here.
Maybe it was because I regard the two of you as extremely well informed ?
Regardless, we can differ on opinion.
The comment concerning children didn't directly involved either of your two.
I'm going to label it a Trump-tangent that was remotely relative.
Call it a shot at the media for pumping concern for one group and not the other.
I, in no way, was questioning your compassion or character.
That out of the way, thank you for the compliment of being a nice guy.
I do try to be.
The one question I will leave you with is......
What current world leader would a Libertarian admire ?
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