Gen. Mattis thanks Trump for calling him an overrated general

[mcarter815]

The same Meryl Streep who applauded and celebrated a man who's been convicted of raping under age girls?

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/meryl-streep-applaud-roman-polanski/

https://www.theguardian.com/film/201...0-years-on-run

That doesn’t change the fact that she’s an award winning actress.

[mcarter815]

What do you not believe? There is video of him saying it.

[dirtMAN007]

What do you not believe? There is video of him saying it.

do you have ANY street smarts ?

[Stefan2k4]

{Quote}That doesn’t change the fact that she’s an award winning actress. [/Quote]

Perhaps not, but advocating and defending a man who admits to raping under age girls? And still seems to feels no remorse what so ever and seems to be repeating that behavior? It just seems a bit hypocritical, screaming for the head of our president, because he wanted to investigate corruption of a former administration and then at the same time defending a child sexual predator who's raping under age girls all around the world and bragging about it in his own book. Read some of the stuff from that second link. Do you have any young daughters? If you do, after reading some of those quotes from him would you want that guy running around free anywhere near where ever they may be?

Also who decided she was an "award winning actress"? Who decides who wins those awards? A small group of elitest or 62 million regular Americans? The same group of elitist who decided the child rapist should be an "award winning director". These "awards" are just a way for the rich elite to pat themselves on the back and hold the,selves up as superior to all us common folk, who's votes they believe should be nullified because "we didn't know any better than to vote for a guy who promised to put America first and not the Kurds. In their minds sacrificing a few young American lives, so they can feel good is justified because those young American lives are just the sons and daughters of the common folk whom they are willing to sacrafice for such "noble" causes.

[Stefan2k4]

https://youtu.be/roNlgIY9QKw

This video best exemplifies the attitude of all these elites who want to send our young sons and daughters to die in God forsaken tiny sh!thole countries far away, just so they can feel good about themselves. Is this Gen Mattis?

[dirtMAN007]

Oh sh!t ! Drop the mic ! He said sh!t hole countries ,,,,,,,,,,,that will trigger some melting of a few snowflakes !!!!!!!!

[mcarter815]

Polanski and Weinstein deserve to be in prison, alongside Bill Cosby and Trump. The joke about Meryl Streep is about her acting abilities. Not sure why that is hard to understand.

[mcarter815]

Our abandonment of the Kurds sends a message to our other allies that we can’t be trusted to have their backs. Instead, we are willing to step aside and allow a genocide to happen.

[dirtMAN007]

A=merica and americans first what don;t you understand ?

[dirtMAN007]

Promises made -------------------------another promise kept !!!! The only guy with the balls and thick skin to do it !!!!!!!

[mcarter815]

America has benefited from being a global superpower, but if you're fine with throwing that away and letting Russia and China take up the gauntlet, so be it.

[Stefan2k4]

Allies are great but potting the sons and daughters of Americans in harms way and asking them to possibly make the ultimate sacrifice should require a really good reason to do so. Syria is a civil war. It's a dispute between a people and their leader. It was really never any of our business to begin with. We should never have gotten involved. Sure Assad is not a nice guy. We don't like him and he never like us. But is that sufficient reason for us to get involved in their civil war? I don't think so! What happens if Assad is overthrown? Who takes his place? Will they be any better than he is? Will all of them wind up hating us in the end? These are questions nobody answered before we got involved, but they should have!

The Kurds may be good people, or maybe they aren't. Maybe they were only our allies because they needed us? Who knows? Maybe they were like the Mujahideen "freedom fighters" in Afghanistan back in the 70s and 80s whom we praised and aided because they were fighting against our then enemy, the Soviets, but later after driving the Soviets out, morphed into the Taliban and later Al Qaeda. And then on Sept 11 2001 mastermind an attack that killed thousands of Americans. We've seen this movie before and it almost always ends badly for us. We create our own monsters who come back to haunt us years down the line. And it always starts with us getting involved in fights that are not our fight.

Freedom and democracy is not something you can gift to a people. It's something these must earn on their own so they can appreciate it and value it. Because they must be willing to maintain it and defend it. Freedom and democracy is also hard work and requires commitment, sometimes commitment to ideas that are counter intuitive like tolerance, free speech, responsibility, and the ability to accept the results of elections even when you don't agree with them. We cannot "export freedom and Democracy around the world." It just doesn't work. We can only offer an example and hope the rest of the world take note.

[dirtMAN007]

america has benefited from being a global superpower, but if you're fine with throwing that away and letting russia and china take up the gauntlet, so be it.

where and how ! We have become everyones patsy …………………………...time to stop the bleeding that is why we elected him !

[Stefan2k4]

Being a superpower and being an empire are 2 different things. Of course we benefit from being a super power. But that doesn't mean we have to occupy the entire world. How did that work out for the British empire? How did Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, samolia, and Afghanistan work out for us? Did any of that stop us from being a super power?

[mcarter815]

Abandoning the Kurds isn't about Syria. Doing so leaves them open to be slaughtered by Turkey.