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It’s not our war. It is their war. I am not confident. But I think they’re [Hamas] very weakened on the other side.”
Another indication of this came when the president, asked whether the Gaza ceasefire would hold through all its phases, responded bluntly We will measure our success not only by the battles we win but also by the wars that we end. And, perhaps most importantly, the wars we never get into.”
Another hint of US Middle East policy came in the inaugural address when Trump declared You certainly can’t have the people that were there, ... Most of them are dead, by the way, right?”
he said when asked about who will govern Gaza in the future ... the president continued It is US policy to protect its citizens from aliens who intend to commit terrorist attacks, threaten national security, espouse hateful ideology, or otherwise exploit the immigration laws for malevolent purposes.”
This executive order states I looked at a picture of Gaza. Gaza is like a massive demolition site. That place is – it’s really got to be rebuilt in a different way,
Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword as was said three thousand years ago, ... so still it must be said ‘the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.'"
the Great Emancipator declared The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race,
is how Chief Justice Roberts phrased it more than a decade ago in a crucial Supreme Court decision, and that belief is the essence of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution as amended: The assertion of that principle, ... at that time, was the word, ‘fitly spoke’ which has proved an ‘apple of gold’ to us. The Union, and the Constitution, are the picture of silver, subsequently framed around it. The picture was made, not to conceal, or destroy the apple; but to adorn, and preserve it. The picture was made for the apple---not the apple for the picture."
The expression of that principle, ... Without this, as well as with it, we could have declared our independence of Great Britain; but without it, we could not, I think, have secured our free government, and consequent prosperity. No oppressed people will fight and endure, as our fathers did, without the promise of something better than a mere change of masters."
asserted Lincoln, ... Our greatest president continued So let us act, ... that neither picture, or apple shall ever be blurred, or bruised or broken. That we may so act, we must study, and understand the points of danger."
Lincoln admonished all American citizens then living and in the future We will forge a policy that is color blind and merit based."
President Trump’s Second Inaugural address had at its core the crucial promise In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem
Trump could quote Ronald Reagan’s first inaugural address
