Reply To: Pence may be worse than Trump

“Surely you don’t believe that opposing vaccines is the worst of Trump’s beliefs, and that favoring small government over cigarette industry regulation is the worst of Pence’s beliefs?”

Actually one can argue that they ARE the worst. Millions of people around the world die from cigarettes every year, and in the past century millions have dies from infectious diseases that are now vaccine-preventable.

But both Trump and his surrogate Gingrich just yesterday made foreign policy statements that should terrify even people who don’t have a problem with mass deaths from smoking and infections: They basically announced that under a Trump administration, the US will no longer be obligated to defend its allies under all circumstances. They specifically mentioned Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia and were I a citizen of any of those countries I would be trying to get another passport as it is clear that Putin is in an expansionist move. A similar statement by Dean Acheson in 1950 directly triggered the Korean War. And think for a minute about what this means for Israel — if Trump is willing to all Putin to dominate other US allies, why wouldn’t he allow one of Putin’s allies like Assad wants to dominate — or even take over — Israel?