Trump’s ‘America First’ is the opposite of its origins
Trump’s ‘America First’ is the opposite of its origins
President Trump and conservative pundit Tucker Carlson has are having a kerfuffle over the meaning of ‘America First.’
Carlson has framed his opposition to Trump’s support, indeed duplicity enabling the Israeli sneak attack on Iran, as a betrayal of his first inaugural address to put America First. Carlson charges Trump’s complicity in Israel’s criminal Iran war puts Israel First which could “lead to blowback warning that the consequences of supporting Israel will include “future blowback terrorism against the West and thousands of immediate American deaths, all in the name of a foreign agenda.” Carlson urged Trump to “drop Israel and let them fight their own wars.”
Trump no like. He told The Atlantic Magazine “Well, considering that I’m the one that developed ‘America First,’ and considering that the term wasn’t used until I came along, I think I’m the one that decides what it means. For those people who say they want peace – you can’t have peace if Iran has a nuclear weapon. So for all of those wonderful people who don’t want to do anything about Iran having a nuclear weapon – that’s not peace.”
George Orwell certainly presaged Donald Trump who charged non nuclear Iran at peace with the world represents war so we need war with Iran to bring peace.
Trump’ claimed he “developed America First and the term wasn’t used until I came along” is preposterous. The concept America First goes back over a century when President Wilson pledged neutrality in the war consuming Europe during the 1916 election .Five months later he said ‘Never mind’ and declared war to save peoplekind from future wars.
In the 1940 election FDR told the voters “Your boys are not going to be sent into a foreign war. That formalized the term America First in the September 1940 creation of the America First Committee which grew to over 800,000 members in 450 chapters nationwide.
Pledging neutrality help FDR win a third term. Then he spent the next year goading Japan into attacking in the Pacific so he could send 16 million boys to fight overseas.
What does America First really mean to Trump? It means demanding peace in Ukraine while still sending them weapons and cash to continue the lost war against Russia destroying Ukraine. It means sending tens of billions in bombs to Israel to complete the genocidal ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza. It means working stealthily with Israel to deceive Iran that peace was at hand to implement Israel’s dastardly sneak attack. It means ramping up massive US military force in the Far East to prepare for war with Iran.
Trump’s America First is simply Peoplekind Last.
Walt Zlotow, West Suburban Peace Coalition, Glen Ellyn IL
posted by Walt Zlotow at 7:50 PM
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