{"id":23533,"date":"2017-04-10T20:21:15","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T01:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=23533"},"modified":"2017-04-10T20:21:15","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T01:21:15","slug":"trump-abandons-his-base-goes-toward-nuclear-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=23533","title":{"rendered":"Trump Abandons His Base, Goes toward Nuclear War"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trump Abandons His Base, Goes toward Nuclear War<\/a><\/h3>\n
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The 48,000+ reader-comments thus far at Stephen Bannon\u2019s Breitbart News, to their announcement on April 6th that Trump had invaded Russia\u2019s ally Syria with missiles, are overwhelmingly along the lines of \u201cThis isn\u2019t what I voted for.\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The tweet by the convert to Orthodox Judaism, Ivanka Trump, when she had learned that her father was bombing Syria, was \u201cProud of my father for refusing to accept these horrendous crimes against humanity.\u201d<\/span><\/a> She was referring to the sarin gas attack that the U.S. government says that it can prove had been perpetrated by Syria\u2019s government, and that the Syrian government says was set up by Al Qaeda so as to appear to have been planned and carried out by the Syrian government in order to draw the U.S. into invading Syria and killing Assad (in the way it killed Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi).<\/span><\/p>\n

Trump has now been praised by Paul Wolfowitz and virtually all of the many other neoconservatives who had endorsed Hillary Clinton for President and who had supported George W. Bush\u2019s 2003 invasion of Iraq<\/span><\/a> \u2014 including most members of the current U.S. Congress. This is a 180-degree turnabout by Trump, which occurs even before his hundredth day as President. Not many Americans had voted for this type of President \u2014 but it\u2019s what we now have. It\u2019s what today\u2019s American political system has offered to its voters: a choice between two neoconservatives, one of whom had