Drake,
“What's the point? It is like a brick wall.“No, you asked me what lasting damage was done to U.S. national security by the Democratic left, and I demonstrated to you that Bill Clinton transferred technology enabling the Chinese to launch a ICBM attack upon the continental U.S. , which you first attempted to excuse, then ignore. Even Will Lovell, chief licensing officer at the Clinton State Department, believed that the security breach was criminal. This is, no doubt, why Bill transferred licensing authority to the Commerce Department. :
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-may-23-mn-52739-story.html%3f_amp=trueThe “point” is that you received a direct answer to your question, and I had to pull teeth to get any reciprocal response from you
”I picked a bad guy to quote apparently... “No, you picked an inane answer to my narrowly focused question.
The reason that I checked Mr. Pollack’s C.V. is not that he is a “bad guy”, it is because his opinion of Trump‘s disclosure was enthusiastically ignorant, and I suspected him to be unqualified to offer an informed opinion. As it turns out, I was correct.
“... but is there anyone on Earth that I could trot out that would actually make you contemplate that maybe Trump shouldn't have put out that photo?“
No, there isn’t. You could trot out General Glen D. VanHerck, and if he choked over a 10cm optical resolution difference between Trump’s photo, and a photo that I could purchase directly over the internet, I would call for his resignation on grounds of dementia.
“Or that he put it out for the wrong reasons, to taunt Iran and assert his dominance, like he does with every real or perceived enemy?”Now you are waffling.
Are you making an argument that Trump has bad manners, or that putting Iran on public notice that we are closely watching their “space program” endangers national security?
”That JFK put out a U2 photo to PROVE to the world that these missile sites actually existed, and that U2 imagery was well known to the Soviets at the time, given the depth of their espionage activities?”You are flailing again.
JFK’s disclosure to the U.N. was carefully considered precisely because his administration considered our photographic technical capacity top secret. They released it anyway, and Russia was the intended audience. I don’t know why you bring up the Soviet espionage canard. Francis Gary Powers gave them our best cameras three years previously. There may have been technical improvements in the intervening period. Regardless, having noted your argument, why don’t you assume that the Russians know about our present intelligence capabilities through “espionage“... or how about just plain common sense?
Donald,
It is this substance-free nature of droning progressive attacks on Trump that have handed the traditional Democratic blue-collar voter over to the GOP. As a demographic, they no longer believe you people, nor the broad media.
It has taken some time for me to accept him as my guy, but Trump has been reactively molded into a consistently results-based conservative by Democratic House, and Senate, leadership. Had Schumer, and Pelosi, made early compromises with him, he would have willingly put a knife in our backs. He said as much.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2019/01/19/us/politics/trump-immigration-conservatives-democrats.amp.htmlTrump is your creation, not our’s.