Wednesday, June 1, 2016

This Is What Happens When You Make Trump Commander In Chief

Former senior national security leaders from across the political spectrum have said they would “fear for the Republic” in a Trump presidency, that he is “crazy,” “a gamble for the future,” and would have “dangerous consequences for the United States.” The U.S. military is the most powerful fighting force the world has ever known and has hundreds of nuclear warheads on hair-trigger alert, ready to be launched in a matter of minutes.

Former Secretary of Defense under both Presidents George W. Bush and Obama, Robert Gates, said “I think that some of the things he has said have some very… if they were to be implemented, have dangerous consequences for the United States.” Another former Obama Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta, who also served as Director of the CIA, highlighted one of those extremely dangerous policies when he said Trump “talks about distributing atomic weapons so that it’s OK that Japan gets atomic weapons, if Korea gets atomic weapons… Those are crazy positions.”...
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/05/30/3783154/commander-in-chief-donald-trump/


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