Today Trump said that what happened in Brussels was proof that the terrorists were winning.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-gop- ... ing-221109
This is not what winning looks like. People in positions of strength do not need to resort to terrorism. This is an act of desperation, not triumph.
And by saying what he said, Trump legitimized the actions of the terrorists in Brussels. If their aim was to frighten people, to make people feel weak and vulnerable, to damage our morale and drive us to make mistakes in our panic--which is the goal of
all terrorism--then we defeat them by refusing to yield to their scare tactics, not by undermining our own resilience.
The prospect of having a president who does not even understand that simple concept, who either has so feeble a grasp on diplomacy that he is unaware of the damage these words could do or he is so power-hungry that he simply doesn't care so long as he keeps his voters frightened, is frankly more than I can stand.