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The international community has been too tolerant of Iran's bad behavior. The ritual of convening a United Nations Security Council in an emergency meeting and issuing a strong statement is not enough. The Trump Administration will no longer tolerate Iran's provocations that threaten our interests.What is such bluster supposed to achieve?
The days of turning a blind eye to Iran's hostile and belligerent actions toward the United States and the world community are over.
But you have to admit this is a little funny: Trump's executive order appears to brazenly violate another executive order about how the government should issue executive orders.Am I the only one who has noticed liberals' departure from reality of late? The whole point of executive orders is that the next president can override them, including an order on how to make orders - otherwise, a sitting president could just write an order that there will be no more executive orders.
It's sort of like the Supreme Court declaring the Constitution to be unconstitutional.
Trump Muslim Ban Executive Order Violated Executive Order About Executive Orders

The State Department, since being notified by the Justice Department of the ruling from the US District Court for the Western District of Washington, has been in contact with the Homeland Security Department and legal teams to coordinate operations, according to Reuters.Summary of updates from the Daily Mail:
Customs and Border Protection officials said they would reinstate visas in compliance with the order.
Airlines in Europe and the Middle East responded to the suspension of tightened U.S. immigration rules by again allowing passengers from countries that had been blocked to fly to the U.S., following chaos at airports and protests across the country.The State Department has reversed its visa revocations:
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Deutsche Lufthansa AG on Saturday said all passengers with valid travel documents including from the seven countries included in the ban would be allowed to travel to the U.S. The airline remains in contact with U.S. authorities in case the rules change again, a spokesman said.
Qatar Airways, a major carrier serving routes from the Middle East to the U.S., said all individuals who present valid visas or green cards will be permitted to travel to the U.S.
Air France, Etihad Airways and British Airways also said they were accepting passengers from the countries included in the ban on flights to the U.S.
The State Department says previously banned travelers will be allowed to enter the United States after a federal judge in Washington state on Friday temporarily blocked enforcement of President Trump's controversial immigration ban.Now consider what Scott Adams wrote soon after the ban was introduced: Trump's 'Muslim ban' is just another 'Art of the Deal' opening bid
"We have reversed the provisional revocation of visas under" Trump's executive order, a State Department spokesman said Saturday. "Those individuals with visas that were not physically canceled may now travel if the visa is otherwise valid."
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Department of Justice lawyers were preparing to immediately ask the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit to dissolve Robart's order, but had not filed anything as of Saturday afternoon. It is not clear how quickly those appeals court judges would consider the government's stay request. And although the 9th Circuit is considered one of the country's most liberal, its randomly assigned three-judge panels can be unpredictable.
If not successful, the government has the option of asking the Supreme Court to get involved. Justice Anthony M. Kennedy is designated to hear emergency requests that arise from the 9th Circuit. But in high-profile cases such as this, such applications are generally considered by the full court.
The issue could reach the high court in days--or weeks.
If Trump is a Master Persuader, as I have been telling you for over a year, he just solved his biggest problem with immigration and you didn't notice. The biggest problem is that his supporters on the right want more immigration control than he can (or should) deliver while his many critics on the left want far less. Normally when you negotiate there is only one party on the other side. But in this case, Trump is negotiating two extremes in two different directions. It's the toughest possible situation. Best case scenario is that 40% of the country want you dead when it's all over. Not good.
So what does a President Trump do when he is in an impossible situation?
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[The persuasion] filter says Trump always opens with an extreme first offer so he has room to negotiate to the middle. The temporary ban fits that model perfectly. ... The Persuasion Filter says Trump is negotiating with his critics on the extreme right at the same time as he is negotiating with his critics on the left. He needed one "opening offer" that would set up both sides for the next level of persuasion. And he found it. You just saw it.
The left sees Trump's executive orders on immigration as pure Hitler behavior. That gives him plenty of room to negotiate to the middle. The initial orders are too broad, and clearly target too many of the wrong people. As he fixes those special cases he will be moving away from the Hitler model toward the middle. And people are more influenced by the DIRECTION of things than the absolute position of things. As long as he is moving away from the Hitler analogy, people will chill out, even if they think he was too close to that position before. Direction matters.
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But what about Trump's critics on the far right who want more extreme immigration? Trump needs to negotiate with them too. And he is. He did that by showing them that his temporary offer was so extreme that people took to the streets. The system (America) is actively trying to eject Trump like some sort of cancer cell. And the worse it gets, with protests and whatnot, the more leverage Trump has to tell his far right supporters that he has gone as far as the country will let him go. He needed that. The protests are working in his favor. He couldn't negotiate with the extreme right without them.
Are Trump's temporary immigration plans chaotic? Yes. Do they hurt innocent people who were minding their own business? Yes, temporarily at least. Did he scare the pants off of half the country? Yes. Will there be lots of unintended damage from Trump's immigration orders? Yes. No honest person should deny the cost component of the equation. It's ugly. But don't stop with a half-pinion. If you want a full opinion on immigration you have to compare those costs to the potential benefits that include fewer terrorist acts and avoiding Europe's refugee problems. Are people making that comparison?
No.
The Fourth Turning, which argues that human history moves in 80- to 100-year cycles, each one climaxing in a violent cataclysm that destroys the old order and replaces it with something new. For the US, there have been three such upheavals: the founding revolutionary war that ended in 1783, the civil war of the 1860s and the second world war of the 1940s. According to the book, America is on the brink of another. ...Trump's threatened new world order is testing the very limits of liberal complacency. Freedland's admission in this column of his overriding conservatism and his nostalgia for the neoliberal, corporate world that brought forth the monstrous Trump reveals quite how circular his thinking is - and, for that matter, always was.
"We're at war" is a favourite Bannon slogan, whether it's the struggle against jihadism, which Bannon describes as "a global existential war" that may turn into "a major shooting war in the Middle East", or the looming clash with China.
Comment: Good cop, bad cop?
Some advice: What Flynn could learn from Kerry about Iran