Trump is not going to get his vote

To vote for radical change in our foreign policy without acknowledging that the change advocated by Donald Trump could be deadly is to support the thinking of Mark Twain’s ignorant fictional boy Huck Finn.

To vote for radical change in our foreign policy without acknowledging that the change advocated by Donald Trump could be deadly is to support the thinking of Mark Twain’s ignorant fictional boy Huck Finn.

Miss Watson asked him, “Huckleberry, why don’t you try to behave?” The narrative continues in Huck’s mind. “Then she told me about the bad place and I said I wished I was there … All I wanted was to go somewheres; all I wanted was a change, I warn’t particular.”

Collateral damage makes me very particular, especially when collateral damage is the result of unnecessary proliferation of nuclear weapons and carpet bombing.

In our war against ISIS, our present policy has been non-nuclear strikes to kill their insane leaders and fanatical soldiers with minimum collateral damage to civilian populations. Donald Trump has advocated we “bomb the hell out of them.”

The critical question is: What is the best strategy to defeat and destroy ISIS and survive?

Donald Trump’s proposal to bomb the hell out of ISIS and to spread nuclear proliferation by arming Japan and South Korea with nukes to deter the threat of nukes from North Korea is not the change we need to survive and thrive. Ignorant boys are not experts on needed change.

When you vote, don’t be a Huck Finn and create on this earth “the bad place.”

Tom Driscoll
Poulsbo

 

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