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Originally Posted by David Sklansky
You could start by realizing that it is a mistake to make a big deal about Trump warning Russia about a new technique ISIS may use to bring down an airliner. The arguments against him doing that are too esoteric to persuade most people. And as my girlfriend pointed out to me, if they had been kept in the dark and one of their planes had been attacked with this technique, it would be very bad if it came out that the US could have prevented it. Those factors will override Trump's amateurishness in the minds of many and anti Trumpers should realize that overemphasizing his error could backfire.
I don't know that your response is relevant to what I said and I'm also fairly confident the accusation against Trump is that he needlessly outed specific intelligence resources (e.g., spies) rather than the vague or even specific outlines of what ISIS might do to an airliner (use laptop batteries to set off explosions). My point to einbert is that what we might rationally see as a slight and an insult to right-wingers (their ability to reflexively generate talking points that reflect their ideology and repeat the same things about recently emerging news and events) is actually a testament to the success of their ideological movement and in some respects to be envied and emulated for people who want to effect change in the world.
Although I agree with the larger point that this debate is way too esoteric for a vast majority of Americans.