1. Yes I have, several times. If US border security were to accept 100 Iranians for every Saud, there would be a gross negligence on the count of the amount of Sauds let in. But facts hurt, I guess. I'm looking forward to the day KSA (estimates put it at 1 decade) is broke. Travel ban is retarded and accomplishes nothing. US immigration policies are already super strict so I don't even see how there can be a problem. The number of refugees accepted by US are close to 0. The European refugee integration problem is complex, but Europe and the world does not become safer by letting the million-sized tent camps in, or by bombing middle eastern countries into pieces. You break it, you buy it. Except US broke it, and then mostly ran away, but not before having helped KSA setup IS.
2. LOL - Trumps speech was completely retarded. Completely BS financial data cited. Incorrectly cited climate reports. Easy to see how it comes about given how many GOP members don't seem to even understand that there is a tremendous problem. Policy is completely stupid. And good luck signing a new global agreement. BTW, the reason Paris Agreement is non-binding is because Obama was a lame duck due to having lost Congress and Senate, and the reason it is not very ambitious is due to US lobbyists who watered it down to the point Obama could sign it. SO yeah, the world totally respects the US for first having made the agreement weak, and then leaving it. :P Two countries are not in, Nicaragua because they thought it was not ambitious enough, and Syria since well, go figure. China and India pollutes a lot less than the US and they are much, much further a long in ending their unsustainable energy dependency. China is a world leader. They expect 30 million jobs in sustainable energy in a few years. Last year there were 2 million Chinese just making PV cells. But good luck creating all those millions US jobs by opening a few more coal mines and turning back the clock on manufacturing technology. Everybody knows it's stupid - even US oil companies wanted to remain in the Paris Agreement, not to mention every other business category that matters. The only one cheering was some coal mining company.
If Trump thinks it didn't go far enough, nothing would stop him from going further. Each signatory sets their own goals, remember? And since it is non-binding, as you also have learned, there is no international force to limit US coal. That part in the speech was a complete distraction. You can reduce your combined total emissions completely as you see fit. But Trump seems to be going backwards, to more pollution. Thankfully some of the more productive US states and cities will continue the fight anyway, including Pittsburgh LOL. They together with the rest of the planet can carbon tax any exports from the remaining states, so I think we as a species will manage to overcome the Trump stupidity in this aspect, but it sure doesn't help with such an anti-science, anti-intelligence joke of a leadership in the WH.
3. Once the evidence is clear, and there is no doubt that Trump is owned by Russia and the WH practically is hijacked and now controlled from the Kremlin, I wonder at what point the GOP has enough spine to throw him under the bus, despite a 30% popularity rating or whatever it will be.
4. Trump is a complete disaster, he spontaneously change US policy on a whim, triggered by what seems to be a level of brain development equal to that of a 5-year old. "He got one more scoop of ice cream than I", "He made me look bad in the hand shake". He is unfit to serve. Yeah, the rest of NATO has realized by now that US existing WH leadership cannot be counted on. Trump struck out the article 5 pledge from his speech, that the entire US intelligence and defence apparatus had made sure was in (i.e. the adults in the room with the whiny toddler), to randomly ramble nonsense instead, in Brussels. Unfit to serve. If you want to avoid wars escalating in ME, perhaps you could stop trying so hard to break it. IS, Saud clan are not nice people. Saud is a desert clan that happened to find oil and became silly rich. Iran is the continuation of a more than 2 millenia old Persian empire. Yes they do have Sharia law and a not-so democratic theocratic arm of the government, but they also have a democratic arm of the government, which just re-elected a reformist, against right-wing extremists. Since you claim to be well-read into these things I'm sure you know that Iran was a complete democracy until 193, when US and UK overthrew the government to install the Shah instead as king. (
https://en.wikipedia.org/...ranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat ) The unavoidable revolution didn't happen until 1979, which initially was a completely and widely backed revolution with lots of participating groups. Unfortunately the most violent extreme groups managed to come out on top after the turmoil that followed, and over 2 decades slowly twisted the laws into theocratic ones. Saudi is SO MUCH WORSE THAN THIS! Iran is a few decades away from a largely peaceful transition away from the ayatollah in my view. State Department can't defend the position either, because it does not make sense. This poor guy has to think hard how to give an answer that doesn't end his career LOL (
https://twitter.com/...status/869649552617463808 ). The US is backing the wrong horse in this race. Obama was trying to correct that. Best would be if you'd just get the fck out of ME in total. All the talk about democracy seems very, very thin.
Good bye and good luck!