Terrorism only works if you have people like Buttigieg and the other "blame Trump" Democrats working inside civilized nations to legitimize it.
"Do what we say or the blood will be on YOUR hands" is the core operating principle of all thuggery.
"Do what we say or the blood will be on YOUR hands" is the core operating principle of all thuggery.
If you took these people seriously - and you shouldn't, they're just opportunists looking to score cheap hits on Trump - they're saying we should always meet the demands of terrorists and thug states because otherwise they'll kill innocent people and it will be OUR fault.
If the airline passengers Iran murdered are Trump's fault, then how could Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton not be held personally responsible for the dead of Benghazi? Their policies provoked the killers.
As soon as you stop holding barbaric regimes 100% responsible for their atrocities, you open the door to insane moral equivalency and ultimately submission. The barbarians will always be happy to create plenty of carnage for us to feel guilty about.
And that's the immediate danger created by the "blame Trump" Democrats: they're giving Iran and other evil regimes incentives to perpetrate more atrocities, knowing the Dems will blame them on Trump and say it's all America's fault for not giving the barbarians what they want.
This kind of weakness - whether born from political opportunism or the Left's "America Last" philosophy - is extremely provocative. If you tell savages their depredations will be blamed on America, you'll get more depredations. It would almost be irrational for them to hold back.
With Democrats eagerly working as lobbyists for the terror masters of Iran, they have EVERY REASON IN THE WORLD to create more dangerous situations and take confrontational actions, confident that everything they do will be blamed on Trump.
Iran also has reason to believe that if they can help Democrats against Trump in 2020, the next Democrat president will make very generous concessions to Iran - nuclear deal restored, billions flowing into their coffers, probably other sweeteners in a "new opening" to Tehran.
It is important to make the world's bad actors think there is a heavy price to pay for indulging their worst instincts. It's incredibly dangerous to make them think half the American political elite will support them no matter what they do because they hate the president. /end
