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I'll even use CNN for this one

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/iran-us-tensions-latest-intl/index.html

Excerpt: 'President Trump is tweeting about his decision to stop an operation to strike Iran last night.

"We were cocked & loaded to retaliate last night on 3 different sights when I asked, how many will die," he tweeted. "150 people, sir, was the answer from a General. 10 minutes before the strike I stopped it, not proportionate to shooting down an unmanned drone."

Here's his full thread:

....Death to America. I terminated deal, which was not even ratified by Congress, and imposed strong sanctions. They are a much weakened nation today than at the beginning of my Presidency, when they were causing major problems throughout the Middle East. Now they are Bust!....
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 21, 2019

....proportionate to shooting down an unmanned drone. I am in no hurry, our Military is rebuilt, new, and ready to go, by far the best in the world. Sanctions are biting & more added last night. Iran can NEVER have Nuclear Weapons, not against the USA, and not against the WORLD!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 21, 2019'


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Ok, after two years in office, Trump is still not a war monger unlike all his predecessors, Republican or Democrat.

For a man who's a consummate trash talker, he's shown far more statesmanship than any President earlier. Some may even say that unlike the late John McCain, he actually learned from the Gulf of Tonkin incident & decided not to go ahead with something similar, under his watch, letting hawks like Bolton and others run the Pentagon.

Here's my alt-world, had Hillary won in 2016, my estimate is that today, there'd be an additional 1000+ dead American soldiers in the middle east due to a protracted land war in Syria, Iraq, and even Iran.

Sorry, but I can put up with a rude person. I can't put up with someone putting the boys in harm's way, just to pursue more nation building horseshit.