A world of worry: Hillary’s apologies aren’t enough to stop Trump terror from striking our allies

Lost among the repetitive sniffing, the incoherent rants about “the cyber,” and his non-canonical lack of restraint or decency on the presidential debate stage, Republican Donald Trump threatened to abandon at least two of our closest Eastern allies unless they help pay for our diplomatic and military aid.

There were nearly too many egregious violations of every presidential debate rule to properly index all of them — any one of which would have ended the presidential aspirations of any previous candidate. Which was worse? Al Gore walking up to George W. Bush and muttering “Dingell Norwood,” a move that many believe cost Gore the 2000 election or Trump confirming that he doesn’t pay federal taxes; that, yes, he was, in fact, sued for refusing to rent to African-American tenants; that Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton isn’t “presidential” because she’s a woman; that he engaged in a five-year racist crusade against the first African-American president’s background; or that in the face of all his yelling and his used-car salesman “believe me” guarantees, he claimed to have a better temperament than Clinton?...
http://www.salon.com/2016/09/28/a-world-of-worry-hillarys-apologies-arent-enough-to-stop-trump-terror-from-striking-our-allies/