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Cosmo T Kat's avatar

This is stupid and childish. Persia, modern Iran, has been around a long time, much longer than the USoA. This is part of their sphere of influence and Trump likely did this to troll the Iranians. I wonder if this was authorized and promoted by Netanyahu, Trump's boss. From what I can tell by reading certain sites that Trump appeals to parts of the right who may have deep seated hatred for Islam, a life time of Zionist propaganda and most are likely Christians Zionists who eat this stuff up. The commentary at these sites like Powerline blog, Breitbart, or Epoch News are filled with these sort of people. It's an all day Hamas, Gaza, Islam hate fest with lionization of Israel. Woe unto us as the MAGA message increasingly looks disturbed and only slightly less so than what they replaced.

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Mark Wauck's avatar

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According to the Associated Press, U.S. President Trump intends to announce during his trip next week to Saudi Arabia, that the United States will now officially refer to the Persian Gulf as the Arabian Gulf or the Gulf of Arabia, moving away from the historical naming of the body of water by Iran/Persia to the one used now by all of the other Gulf Nations.

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Cosmo T Kat's avatar

This is stupid and childish. Persia, modern Iran, has been around a long time, much longer than the USoA. This is part of their sphere of influence and Trump likely did this to troll the Iranians. I wonder if this was authorized and promoted by Netanyahu, Trump's boss. From what I can tell by reading certain sites that Trump appeals to parts of the right who may have deep seated hatred for Islam, a life time of Zionist propaganda and most are likely Christians Zionists who eat this stuff up. The commentary at these sites like Powerline blog, Breitbart, or Epoch News are filled with these sort of people. It's an all day Hamas, Gaza, Islam hate fest with lionization of Israel. Woe unto us as the MAGA message increasingly looks disturbed and only slightly less so than what they replaced.

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Ray-SoCa's avatar

With all the other judicial pushback for Trump, I’m a bit surprised at this decision. I would have expected Roberts, Kavanaugh to hedge.

Or perhaps this is is Roberts throwing s bone to Trump, so scotus appears non partisan.

Yes, I may be a bit too cynical about Roberts.

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Mark Wauck's avatar

I wasn't actually surprised at all. The majority of the SCOTUS knows that the judiciary has no business managing the military.

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SMH's avatar

Ray: Mind if I sit in the “cynical about Roberts” seat next to yours?

With his judicial contortions to validate Obamacare, he lost all of his quality points with me and this “bone” doesn’t help him much.

If he actually believes that this helps make the SCOTUS appear non partisan, then he probably still leaves milk and cookies for Santa.

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Mike richards's avatar

Maybe neocons have figured out that a woke US military is no use to israel, so that segment of America must be left intact. Brisrael waives the rules-based order.

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