US President Donald Trump said in a farewell address Tuesday, his last full day in office, that he was the first president in many years to have left office without starting a war.
“I am especially proud to be the first president in decades who has started no new wars,” Trump said, according to excerpts from the address that the White House released shortly before its broadcast on Tuesday.
The outgoing Republican president also touted his toughness against China, saying he had brought unprecedented international pressure on the communist US rival.
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WNU Editor: I have said it more than once in this blog. President Trump is the first US President since 1941 who has not started a new war, or escalated one. That by itself is quite an accomplishment.
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"President Trump is the first US President since 1941 who has not started a new war, or escalated one.
In 1941 Hitler declared war in the USA. On December 7, 1941 Japan mistimed their attack and diplomacy by attacking an hours or so before their diplomats could notify the US of war.
Should not the US have reciprocated the Japanese declaration of War?
To be fair Roosevelt was looking for war. I've read that the USS Lanikai was outfitted with the intent of acting as a tripwire. In other accounts it seems that its mission was simple reconnaissance. One female Republican representative accused Roosevelt of goading the Japan to war with an oil and iron embargo. The US standing up for China was only partially benign, the other part being fear of an expanding power.
War against Japan, Germany and North Korea were forced on it.
Bin Laden and the Taliban also forced war on the US.
I voted for Trump twice. I will again.
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