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Originally Posted by Kipungu
Not unreasonable, if the US dismantled all their bases abroad and pulled out of any Islamic countries completely.
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Be careful what you wish for. I suspect a Trump presidency would be an isolationist one and that he would be a President who made it a priority for the US to achieve energy independence. I also suspect that a lot of the US population would be ready to put up with a reasonable amount of economic hardship to achieve that. I appreciate that anti-American sentiment is high but the world has also become used to living under an assumed US guardianship role, for better or for worse, and a US that actually does decide to not give a stuff about the middle east/Islamic world anymore presents far more questions than answers.
As to what Trump has said though, well it leaves me utterly perplexed. This proposal is utter insanity. I make no bones about the fact that I have my own doubts about the future stability of the Western World with growing Islamic populations, for a whole host of reasons, but to propose a blanket ban like this one is just beyond preposterous.
Now I loathe Hillary Clinton with a passion as I veiw her and her husbands as being the spawn of the devil but Trump now seems to be as bad, abliet in different ways.
Politics officially scares me now. I see a Europe in which the current political elite seem hell bent on destroying it through open door migration policies but those now coming on the inside to replace them, offering no real solutions beyond plunging the entire continent back into war again by way of rectifying that.
I have been harbouring my own doubts about my political compass for a long time now but I can genuinely see nothing on the horizon that offers any possible comfort. Here in the UK we have a choice between Cameron who seems hell bent on lining the pockets of his corporate paymasters and Corbyn who happily honoured terrorists who were hell bent on killing British people and shows no sign of stopping that. There is no genuine choice for reasonable people anymore.
And a US in which it is a choice between Trump and Hillary Clinton does not even bear thinking about. A pox on both their houses.
By the middle of this century, Western civilisation could be plunged into a series of civil wars which will herald a new dark age.