After all, he was quoted just a month ago saying that “we will stop racing to topple foreign regimes that we know nothing about, that we shouldn’t be involved with.” At the time, most of his constituents agreed. However, many democrats are criticizing his shift in opinion, and they are calling for him to stay out of the Middle Eastern conflicts. Donald Trump said that the images of the children hit by the chemical weapons changed his stance on the issue.
While many of the republican voters had conformed to Trump’s prior views, they quickly switched back to their conflictual opinions of old. This action was in stark contrast to many of his claims of noninterventionism during the election cycle. Donald Trump took extreme action and sent 50 tomahawk missiles to the Syrian airbase that was responsible for the chemical attacks. Americans in particular were disgusted by these actions. The use of chemical weapons is heinous and condemned by the majority of the world, so there was a plethora of backlash from many other nations. Last week, Assad’s regime in Syria used chemical weapons in vicious attacks on their own citizens. These are not the most typical views for conservative republicans, but the right has seen a recent shift in opinion due to President Donald Trump. Meanwhile, Donald Trump was praised by many republicans for his apparent views on noninterventionism.
She even recommended sending over 40,000 troops to Afghanistan, but most democrats supported her ideas. Recent democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was criticized for being a ‘war hawk’ by many, but she ultimately had the support of most democratic voters. Both major political parties have held pretty consistent stances on this topic, but many stances have unexpectedly shifted since the recent election. For the past several decades, America has been heavily involved in the conflicts in the Middle East.
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