t shouldn’t be surprising, but it is to me nonetheless: Plenty of liberals who’ve long criticized Donald Trump as unfit to be president are praising his strike on Syrian airfields.
On CNN’s New Day Thursday, global analyst Fareed Zakaria declared, “I think Donald Trump became president of the United States” last night. To his credit, Zakaria has previously called Trump a “bullshit artist” and said, “He has gotten the presidency by bullshitting.” But Zakaria apparently thinks firing missiles make one presidential. On MSNBC, Nicholas Kristof, an aggressive Trump critic, said he “did the right thing” by bombing Syria. Anchor Brian Williams, whose 11th Hour has regularly been critical of Trump, repeatedly called the missiles “beautiful,” to a noisy backlash on Twitter.
While The New York Times posted several skeptical, even critical stories, it gave us this piece of propaganda: an article initially titled “On Syria attack, Trump’s heart came first,” buying the president’s line that his opposition to anti-Assad military action was reversed by seeing the heartrending photos of children struggling to breathe after a chemical attack.
いわゆるアメリカのリベラルの主流は、今回のミサイル攻撃を称賛。せいぜい手続き上の問題を指摘する程度で、サンダース氏さえも非難はしない。。
NBCでは、司会者がトマホークを美しい、褒め称える始末。
5 Coming back to the first point, Russia was alerted beforehand of the bombing, thus limiting the danger of escalation. If this was the case, it raises the question of just how committed Putin is to defending Assad, and of whether Trump might just be able to have his cake and eat it too. That is, he might be able to win the trifecta: distance himself from the slur of “isolationism,” placate the interventionists, and keep his budding alliance with Russia. A jump in oil prices as a result of the bombing will make Russia and Tillerson happy. And perhaps this is all a test run for the real game: figuring out a way to drive a wedge between Iran and Russia. Then Trump can have Moscow and McCain and Schumer can have Iran.
ロシア関係で、要らぬ疑いをかけられていたトランプさん、今回の件で疑いは晴れたし、ロシアに通告することで、ロシアともそこそこの関係保てたし、油の値段も挙がって、ロシアも、ティラーソンも万々歳。孤立主義だとか言われて批判されなくて済むし、介入主義者たちからの怒りもかわせた、と。
ところが、
孤立主義やプーチンとの関係を重視してトランプ氏を支持していたアメリカのネトウヨたちだけは、ミサイル攻撃を非難。
