Trump congratulates new dictator on becoming a dictator

[Tassman]

As the leader of theologyweb, I called and congratulated Erdogan on his victory and sent him a request to round up the dissidents on tweb like JimL, Starlight, Tassman and Shunyadragon.

Well Evangelicals have always tended towards conformist totalitarianism.

[Roy]

I'll aware you +1 points on a technicality, although in reality the job of a foreign minister would be to speak on behalf of the government (or leader).
Do you suppose the foreign minister for the U.K. offered congratulations without clearing it with the government?

Definitely. Do you know who is our current foreign minister?

[Sparko]

Well Evangelicals have always tended towards conformist totalitarianism.

I have sent our enforcers to reeducate you. Expect the Darth Gerbil squad at your door within the hour.

[Sparko]

Definitely. Do you know who is our current foreign minister?

But you are an atheist! Why do you have a minister in the first place, much less a foreigner?

[Starlight]

Trump’s ‘Very Friendly’ Talk With Duterte Stuns Aides and Critics Alike

Although I think nobody should be stunned at this point by Trump's outrageous behavior. Trump obviously loves crazy dictators and wishes he was one himself.

[Bill the Cat]

Trump’s ‘Very Friendly’ Talk With Duterte Stuns Aides and Critics Alike

Although I think nobody should be stunned at this point by Trump's outrageous behavior. Trump obviously loves crazy dictators and wishes he was one himself.

So what?

[KingsGambit]

Duterte is the leader who's having police go out and shoot on site anybody suspected of using drugs without a trial.

[Darth Executor]

Duterte's pretty cool (and also not a dictator). Progressives think anyone who is effective at preventing them from destroying their societies is a "dictator".

[Bill the Cat]

Duterte is the leader who's having police go out and shoot on site anybody suspected of using drugs without a trial.

He also leads a very strategic country, and we need his cooperation in the region whether we like him or not.

[demi-conservative]

Duterte is the leader who's having police go out and shoot on site anybody suspected of using drugs without a trial.

Sounds like 'in' thing:

Mr. Obama is the liberal law professor who campaigned against the Iraq war and torture, and then insisted on approving every new name on an expanding “kill list,” poring over terrorist suspects’ biographies on what one official calls the macabre “baseball cards” of an unconventional war. When a rare opportunity for a drone strike at a top terrorist arises — but his family is with him — it is the president who has reserved to himself the final moral calculation.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/wo...-al-qaeda.html

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Okay, cheap shots at lib aside, what's wrong with killing-with-not trial in emergency situations??

[Starlight]

He also leads a very strategic country, and we need his cooperation in the region whether we like him or not.

Did you just make this claim up on the spot or did you have some sort of reasoning for it? I would have ranked the Philippines fairly low on all lists of countries that were relevant or important or strategic. The US has plenty of other allies in the region... South Korea, Japan, Australia.

[Tassman]

Duterte's pretty cool (and also not a dictator). Progressives think anyone who is effective at preventing them from destroying their societies is a "dictator".

Duterte is a murderous thug with an abysmal human rights record. There's no good reason why Trump should turn a blind eye to his behaviour by inviting him tho the White House.

[Starlight]

Duterte is a murderous thug with an abysmal human rights record. There's no good reason why Trump should turn a blind eye to his behaviour by inviting him tho the White House.

Although the US has never cared about human rights, so why start now?

Caring about "human rights" is just a pretend excuse they sometimes trot out when a country annoys the ultra-rich in the US and they order their corrupt politicians to order their military to remove the problem.

[Bill the Cat]

Did you just make this claim up on the spot or did you have some sort of reasoning for it? I would have ranked the Philippines fairly low on all lists of countries that were relevant or important or strategic. The US has plenty of other allies in the region... South Korea, Japan, Australia.

I served 21 years in the US military, and I've worked for the military for another 11 years since I retired, you tool. I know a whole lot more about the strategic value of US allies than you EVER will. I don't give a flying fart in space what YOU, a foreigner who knows jack squat about what really goes on in the US military, "rank" as important. The Philippines is a former US territory, and we continue to actively patrol the disputed South China Sea from Clark Air Base, where my wife's cousin is currently stationed. The location is a very strategic one, considering China's historical incursions into the South China Sea.

[Bill the Cat]

Although the US has never cared about human rights, so why start now?

Caring about "human rights" is just a pretend excuse they sometimes trot out when a country annoys the ultra-rich in the US and they order their corrupt politicians to order their military to remove the problem.

You're an idiot.