I wonder if he's ever heard the POV of people in Yemen?

[thewayne]

"Would I approve waterboarding? You bet your ass I'd approve it, you bet your ass -- in a heartbeat. And I would approve more than that...It works. Only a stupid person would say it doesn't work... And you know what? If it doesn't work, they deserve it anyway for what they're doing to us."
—Donald Trump

They don't like us very much because they're getting blowed up by ordnance made in the USA, sold to the Saudis, then dropped on them. As far as they're concerned, the USA are terrorists doing it to them.

Probably not.

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[silveradept]

That's pandering to his base and going that all the violent Islamopohobes week view in enough primaries to get him elected. Torture hasn't worked, and a candidate who believes someone deserves it is unqualified for office, I would hope.

[porsupah.livejournal.com]

The scary thing is - he knows it doesn't work.

http://leancrew.com/all-this/2015/08/on-trump/

"Ten years ago, Harry Frankfurt, a philosophy professor (emeritus) at Princeton, came out with a very slim volume entitled On Bullshit. It was basically just the republication of an essay he’d written about 20 years earlier, but it got a fair amount of attention when put in book form. What struck me about it at the time was the contrast Frankfurt drew between bullshit and lying."

"It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. Producing bullshit requires no such conviction. A person who lies is thereby responding to the truth, and he is to that extent respectful of it. When an honest man speaks, he says only what he believes to be true; and for the liar, it is correspondingly indispensable that he considers his statements to be false. For the bullshitter, however, all these bets are off: he is neither on the side of the true nor on the side of the false. His eye is not on the facts at all, as the eyes of the honest man and of the liar are, except insofar as they may be pertinent to his interest in getting away with what he says. He does not care whether the things he says describe reality correctly. He just picks them out, or makes them up, to suit his purpose."

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

Bullshit and lying: that's brilliant! Definitely shows the emphasis on honesty, and demonstrates that pretty much the entire republican field are BS artists of the highest order.