After the East Palestine toxic derailment episode, it is difficult to believe that ex-President Donald Trump will ever deserve a place in government again. After dismantling railway safety regulations, largely it seems because Barack Obama’s administration instigated them, he appeared at the train disaster site for an opportunistic chance to blame President Joe Biden for ignoring Americans at home.
Meanwhile, his staunch allies, such as Rep. Marjorie Greene from Georgia, call Biden’s Ukraine visit “incredibly insulting,” and Rep. Matt Gaetz from Florida accuses Biden of “ditching America for Ukraine.”
Luckily, the “reasonable” majority of the GOP seems to be embarrassed by these people.
In the 1780s, realizing that the vessels of the new American nation were no longer protected by the British Navy, Barbary pirates of North Africa began to seize American ships in the Mediterranean. As the U.S. had disbanded its Continental Navy and had no seagoing military force, the government agreed in 1786 to pay tribute to stop the attacks. By 1794, at the urging of President George Washington, Congress voted to authorize the building of six heavy frigates and to establish the United States Navy to stop the attacks and demands for more and more money.
Just a brief overview of history reveals that isolationism coupled with forsaking international issues is quite dangerous to domestic tranquility, something the Trump faction seems incapable of understanding.
— Ken Green
Cooper Landing
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