Donald Trump, Reagan's Inheritor, Reminded the UN that Together the World Will Stand for Peace, Freedom, Justice, Family, Humanity, and "the Almighty God Who Made Us All"

THE REAL NEWS TODAY IS THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP'S UN SPEECH WAS A FORCEFUL EXPLANATION OF THE TRUMP DOCTRINE. That is what the UN General Assembly Speech will be known as -- the first full explanation of the Trump Doctrine. • Trump haters had lots to say about the UN speech. From the BBC to the Guardian to the Washington Post to Hillary Clinton, who called it "a dangerous nad dark" speech. Enough time wasted on Hillary. • • • THE BBC. The venerable leftist media outlet that rejects all that any British Conservative government ever says or does, had much to say about President Trump's speech to the General Assembly : "Trump's first UN speech met with criticism from some leaders. Donald Trump's first major speech at the United Nations has been denounced by some of the member nations he singled out for criticism.The US President included Iran among "a small group of rogue regimes," and said the US would "totally destroy" North Korea if forced to do so." The BBC then quoted Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who said : "Trump's ignorant hate speech belongs in medieval times," and not the UN. Iranian media followed the lead of Foreign Minister Zarif in denouncing President Trump's remarks. The BBC said that commentators on the official TV news channel IRINN compared Trump's speech to the bizarre performance of Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi at the same podium in 2009. They accused him of "breaking diplomatic convention" in an address "full of contradictions." BUT -- IRINN broadcast the entire speech live, even though its translator omitted Trump's critical remarks on Iran, which prompted comment on social media. Teheran MP Mahmudi Sadeqi wrote on Twitter : "The poor translator suffered so much trying to distort and censure Trump's baseless remarks simultaneously on IRINN!!" • To put this into perspective -- this is the same Iranian foreign minister Zarif who was key in the Iran nuclear deal negotiations, along with US Secretary of State John Kerry, whose younger daughter married in 2009 an Iranian-American who has extensive family ties to Iran. In 2015, as the Iranian negotiations heated up, Kerry issued a statement : "I am proud of the Iranian-Americans in my own family, and grateful for how they have enriched my life," saying he was “strongly committed to resolving” the differences between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran “to the mutual benefit of both of our people.” In the US melting pot, the marriage is not surprising. What is surprising is that as part of the wedding preparations, Kerry allegedly went to a dinner party hosted by George Soros at his Manhattan penthouse, where he undoubtedly met the man who was alleged to have been best man, Mahdi Zarif, and also met his father, none other than Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iranian Foreign Minister. This revelation, made by former Congressman Allen West, was quickly denied by Iran’s Foreign Ministry that “strongly rejected” the claim, calling it a “sheer lie and ‘news fabrication,” as reported by Fars News Agency. The Iran Foreign Ministry said : “Some media outlets that lack credit fabricate such news in pursuit of special objectives, including finding more viewers.” But, we already disregard anything that Zarif or Iran say, not just because of the tangled Kerry-Iran web that may or may not reach to Zarif, but because the Iran propaganda machine works 24/7 against "the great Satan" America. • BBC also repeated the Reuters report that when Trump criticized North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un, saying : "Rocket man is on a suicide mission. If [the US] is forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea," one audience member covered his face with his hands, and loud, startled murmurs filled the hall in response. • The BBC then reported on Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom, who was observed crossing her arms, and later told the BBC : "It was the wrong speech, at the wrong time, to the wrong audience." We may assume that Wallstrom has not said as much about her country's ill-advised acceptance of unvetted criminal-laced immigrants, taking in the most per capita of any European country except Germany -- that was surely "the wrong decision, at the wrong time, about the wrong immigrants." • The BBC said that Trump also targeted Venezuela, calling its government a corrupt "socialist dictatorship" -- and warned that the US is prepared to take action against it. Venezuela's Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza rejected what he called "threats. Trump is not the President of the world...he can not even manage his own government." The BBC went from the Venezuelan foreign minister to Bolivian President Evo Morales -- an ally of the Venezuelan government -- who tweeted : "I am not surprised that a multi-millionaire like Trump attacks socialism. Our struggle will always be ideological and pragmatic." The BBC failed to note that the "ideological and pragmatic" struggle of socialism is starving Venezuelans, who are the socialism-enslaved citizens of the richest country in South America, if they were freed to manage it properly. • And, the BBC could not forget that the Trump speech was followed by that of French President Emmanuel Macron, who defended the nuclear deal with Iran, saying : "Renouncing it would be a grave error." • But, said the BBC, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu backed Trump during his speech, saying the deal with Iran should be amended or scrapped altogether, and warned against the spread of Iranian influence in the Middle East. • The BBC summed up President Trump's General assembly speech thus : "President Trump's speech was an eloquent exposition of his 'America First' doctrine but at the same time contained some fulsome (and perhaps unexpected) praise for the United Nations as a body that can bring together sovereign states to tackle the world's problems. In contrast to the focus on globalization that has driven so much of foreign policy discussion since the 1990s, Mr Trump saw national sovereignty as the main pillar of the international system. There was a nod to the old axis-of-evil theme. His rogues' gallery took in a predictable cast of North Korea, Iran and Venezuela. Nonetheless Mr Trump's world view contained many contradictions. Where exactly is the boundary between national sovereignty and collective action? And does America's newfound foreign policy pragmatism extend just to calling for the return of democracy in Iran and Venezuela or actually for doing something practical about it?" • • • THE GUARDIAN. The leftist flagship Guardian answered that question for the BBC, writing : "Trump’s argument against humanitarian intervention and 'nation-building' is an approach favored by Russia, China and much of the Non-Aligned Movement. 'As President of the United States,' he said, 'I will put America first, just as you as leaders of your countries will always put your countries first.' It was one of the few lines that drew significant applause. Trump did not explain how that sentiment squared with the second part of his address, in which he called for action against 'rogue regimes' for their lack of democracy." • The Guardian also noted that the address was "heavy with echoes of George W. Bush’s 'Axis of Evil' State of the Union address more than 15 years earlier," when he said : "The scourge of our planet today are a small group of rogue regimes." • When Trump moved on to Iran, the Guardian said : "Trump must decide by 15 October on whether to certify Iranian compliance or not. His threatened withdrawal of presidential endorsement could lead to Congress reimposing nuclear-related sanctions and the collapse of the agreement. Like much of the 41-minute speech, Trump’s reference to the Iran deal was met by stony silence. The deal is overwhelmingly supported by UN member states, including most of Washington’s closest allies." What Trump said was that the Islamic Republic had robbed a great people of its destiny : "The entire world understands that the good people of Iran want change and, other than the vast military power of the United States, that Iran’s people are what their leaders fear the most,” adding that the day would come when the Iranian people would be faced with a choice between “the path of poverty, bloodshed and terror” and their country’s “proud roots as a center of civilization, culture, and wealth.” That remark was what prompted the response of Iranian foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, in a tweet that said Trump’s “ignorant hate speech belongs in medieval times -- not the 21st Century UN,” adding that it was “unworthy of a reply.” • The Guardian summed up Trump's speech with these words ; "A blunt, fearful rant : Trump's UN speech left presidential norms in the dust." Voila!! • • • THOSE WHO PRAISED TRUMP'S SPEECH. • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was one of the few to applaud when President Trump said the world could not abide by the Iran agreement “if it provides cover for the eventual construction of a nuclear program.” Netanyahu swiftly issued a statement praising Trump : “In over 30 years in my experience with the UN, I never heard a bolder or more courageous speech. President Trump spoke the truth about the great dangers facing our world and issued a powerful call to confront them in order to ensure the future of humanity.” • That was the tone and message of most who approved of Trump's remarks to the General Assembly. • • • FOX NEWS. Fox News published a Fox Opinion Piece by John Moody that said :"It’s hard to imagine Donald Trump presenting a more direct, focused and needed speech than the one he gave at the United Nations. Sticking to teleprompter, he told the world body it was not doing its job. He also called out some of its bad actor members, in particular North Korea, which he baldly threatened with total destruction....The Iran nuclear deal, he noted with justifiable heat, was signed without proper regard for America’s interests and needs fixing. Similarly, trade pacts with other nations must be more even-handed than the NAFTA agreement has proven to be. Trump’s hottest rhetoric -- and thankfully, here he stayed on script -- was directed at North Korea. While he needlessly mocked its leader, Kim Jong-un, as “rocket boy,” his warning to the Hermit Kingdom could not have been clearer or starker. Kim, the President said, is on a suicidal path that could result in North Korea’s “complete destruction.” There could be no misunderstanding those words, which no doubt are now careening around Beijing, Seoul and Moscow. Perhaps most important to Trump, he laid out an honest and honorable definition of what he means by America First : it’s his job as President of the United States to put the interests of his citizens at the top of his priority list. The same burden, he said, falls on other world leaders with regard to their countrymen. What the US is no longer willing to do, he said in plain (and scripted) language, is to allow itself to be out-dealt and out-voted on issues that affect Americans. He bluntly told his hosts at the UN that they often failed to carry out their promises. And he pointed out the absurdity of appointing member states with horrible human rights records to its Human Rights Commission. This was a President of the people...speaking for the people. His speech will be criticized by some as hawkish. So what? Trump has shown that while he’s open to deal-making, he can also resort to force, as he did in Syria. His speech is likely to restore the faith and enthusiasm of his base supporters, and give other world leaders a better indication of who this strange, unconventional President -- with the the world’s greatest armed forces behind him -- really is. If Trump can just stick to script, as he did at the UN, he could close out 2017 on a very successful note." • Fox News also published an article by Erick Erickson, who said : "Donald Trump gave the best speech of his presidency to the United Nations. He was bold and American -- giving real clarity to what he meant by an 'America First' speech. He did not mince words and called out rogue nations. But he also noted that he had no intention of imposing the American system on other nations. His speech was a speech on what he sees as realism and getting away from an idealized American foreign policy. His was a speech that will resonate beyond his base." Erickson said : "A White House contact told me the President intended to wake up the United Nations to the threat North Korea poses on the world stage by using harsh language. I think it probably worked. He recognizes the United States has a leading role on the world stage to play, but is only going to focus on those issues where he sees a clear threat to our interests and those of our allies." Erickson referenced President Reagan's "Evil Empire" speech : "Foreign policy elitists will treat the President's statements about North Korea and "Rocket Man" with the same disdain they showed Reagan for his "evil empire" remarks. But I suspect both Presidents will have the last laugh. He called out radical Islamic terrorism, which a White House source said he wanted to highlight." Erickson loved Trump's remark about socialism in Venezuela : "More impressively, the President confronted Venezuela directly with use of the awesome line about socialism working as designed, garnering some chuckles and laughter from the delegates. Some Obama advisors took issue with the President for saying he was not going to impose a form of government or way of life on other nations, but the President was actually pretty consistent. He made clear he would not impose our values on other nations, but if those nations were harming our national interests, he would act. Venezuela is destabilizing an entire region and causing a humanitarian crisis. The President's sentiments are perfectly consistent." Erickson summed up not only the UN speech but Donald Trump himself : "With President Trump we are not going to get the soaring rhetoric of Barack Obama or the happy smile and sentiment of George W. Bush. We are not going to get Reagan or Clinton. What we are going to get is a blunt instrument who understands he can occasionally use his bluntness to make real change. Today at the United Nations, President Trump bluntly told the UN that the US is going back to a foreign policy of a bygone era -- one where we act with allies or alone for our real, not our idealized, national interest. I appreciate that bluntness. I just don't know how long it will last. But hopefully it will last long enough for the complete scuttling of the Iranian deal and the Paris accord." • • • JOHN BOLTON. Certainly, John Bolton appreciates UN diplomacy more than most because he was US Ambassador to the UN. Bolton said after President Trump's address to the United Nations General Assembly that it was the "best speech of the Trump presidency....It's safe to say, in the entire history of the United Nations, there has never been a more straightforward criticism of the unacceptable behavior of other member states." Bolton pointed out that Trump threatened the "total destruction'" of North Korea if it does not abandon its nuclear weapons program. As for Iran, Bolton said, Trump was just as direct in his criticism of former President Obama's nuclear deal with the Islamic Republic : "[He] said, as he has said many times before, it is one of the worst, most one-sided deals in American history, an embarrassment to the country, and we haven't heard the last of it." Bolton summarized : "I think these are about as clear an indication as a President can make that he's not going to live with the kind of half-measures and compromises that frankly for 25 years have marked American policy and led us to the present desperate situation where both these countries are on the verge of getting deliverable nuclear weapons." • • • DEAR READERS, Donald Trump has given three world-class speeches -- his acceptance speech before the Republican Nominating Convention in July 2016 that put him firmly on the side of the American people, his Warsaw speech that pleaded the cause of western civilization, and Tuesday's General Assembly speech. They were more than world-class, they were world-leading statements of the Free World's agenda in the 21st century. Those, and they are legion, who have attacked or guffawed at the UN speech, as they did at the other two speeches, are not part of the Free World. They belong to the Globalist Progressive Socialist gang of Elites, either as its leaders, its foot soldiers or its propaganda arm. Our human brothers and sisters are for them less than human. As Bolivian President Evo Morales, the ally of the Venezuelan government, tweeted : "I am not surprised that a multi-millionaire like Trump attacks socialism. Our struggle will always be ideological and pragmatic." For Donald Trump, and for any human being with even the slightest ethical foundation, human beings are not "ideological and pragmatic" pawns or sub-human beings to be starved, enslaved, tortured or ethnically cleansed in the death marches of Socialism. Those death marches have failed in Russia, in eastern Europe, in Egypt, in the Dominican Republic, in Nazi Germany. They are failing now in Venezuela, in Cuba, in China, in North Korea. • Ayn Rand wrote in "For the New Intellectual” : "The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights; under socialism, the right to property (which is the right of use and disposal) is vested in “society as a whole,” i.e., in the collective, with production and distribution controlled by the state, i.e., by the government. Socialism may be established by force, as in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics—or by vote, as in Nazi (National Socialist) Germany. The degree of socialization may be total, as in Russia—or partial, as in England. Theoretically, the differences are superficial; practically, they are only a matter of time. The basic principle, in all cases, is the same. The alleged goals of socialism were : the abolition of poverty, the achievement of general prosperity, progress, peace and human brotherhood. The results have been a terrifying failure -- terrifying, that is, if one’s motive is men’s welfare. Instead of prosperity, socialism has brought economic paralysis and/or collapse to every country that tried it. The degree of socialization has been the degree of disaster. The consequences have varied accordingly." • In "The Monument Builders,” Ayn Rand wrote : "There is no difference between the principles, policies and practical results of socialism -- and those of any historical or prehistorical tyranny....that is, a system of absolutism without a fixed head, open to seizure of power by all corners, by any ruthless climber, opportunist, adventurer, demagogue or thug. When you consider socialism, do not fool yourself about its nature. Remember that there is no such dichotomy as 'human rights' versus 'property rights.' No human rights can exist without property rights. Since material goods are produced by the mind and effort of individual men, and are needed to sustain their lives, if the producer does not own the result of his effort, he does not own his life. To deny property rights means to turn men into property owned by the state. Whoever claims the 'right' to 'redistribute' the wealth produced by others is claiming the 'right' to treat human beings as chattel....When one observes the nightmare of the desperate efforts made by hundreds of thousands of people struggling to escape from the socialized countries of Europe, to escape over barbed-wire fences, under machine-gun fire -- one can no longer believe that socialism, in any of its forms, is motivated by benevolence and by the desire to achieve men’s welfare. No man of authentic benevolence could evade or ignore so great a horror on so vast a scale. Socialism is not a movement of the people. It is a movement of the intellectuals, originated, led and controlled by the intellectuals, carried by them out of their stuffy ivory towers into those bloody fields of practice where they unite with their allies and executors : the thugs." • For those who for some mystifying reason cannot understand what Ayn Rand is telling them, there is a more recent and more direct charge against all the Socialists who ever lived. It came from Ronald Reagan. The Berlin Wall was built by Communists in August 1961 to keep Germans from escaping Communist-dominated East Berlin into Democratic West Berlin. The twelve-foot concrete wall extended for a hundred miles, surrounding West Berlin, and included electrified fences and guard posts. President Ronald Reagan stood in front of the Berlin Wall on June 12, 1987 and spoke simple, immortal words : "General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization : Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall! • President Donald Trump is doing the good work of Ronald Reagan and of all the fighters for human freedom and dignity who have come before on this long road to to the Shining City on the Hill. President Reagan's Berlin speech contained a conclusion that should be taught to every youngster in the world : "No one could live long in Berlin without being completely disabused of illusions. Something instead, that has seen the difficulties of life in Berlin but chose to accept them, that continues to build this good and proud city in contrast to a surrounding totalitarian presence that refuses to release human energies or aspirations. Something that speaks with a powerful voice of affirmation, that says yes to this city, yes to the future, yes to freedom. In a word, I would submit that what keeps you in Berlin is love -- love both profound and abiding. Perhaps this gets to the root of the matter, to the most fundamental distinction of all between East and West. The totalitarian world produces backwardness because it does such violence to the spirit, thwarting the human impulse to create, to enjoy, to worship. The totalitarian world finds even symbols of love and of worship an affront. Years ago, before the East Germans began rebuilding their churches, they erected a secular structure : the television tower at Alexander Platz. Virtually ever since, the authorities have been working to correct what they view as the tower's one major flaw, treating the glass sphere at the top with paints and chemicals of every kind. Yet even today when the sun strikes that sphere -- that sphere that towers over all Berlin -- the light makes the sign of the cross. There in Berlin, like the city itself, symbols of love, symbols of worship, cannot be suppressed. As I looked out a moment ago from the Reichstag, that embodiment of German unity, I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner : 'This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality.' Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom. • Here is the conclusion of President Trump's General Assembly speech : "Today, if we do not invest ourselves, our hearts, our minds, and our nations, if we will not build strong families, safe communities, and healthy societies for ourselves, no one can do it for us. This is the ancient wish of every people and the deepest yearning that lives inside every sacred soul. So let this be our mission, and let this be our message to the world. We will fight together, sacrifice together, and stand together for peace, for freedom, for justice, for family, for humanity, and for the almighty God who made us all."