Posted on 03/22/2016 7:30:40 AM PDT by 20yearsofinternet
Expert: a former drip under pressure.
Are we seriously debating this again? Bush’s foreign policy team was just getting confirmed in the summer of 2001. You expected a complete overhaul of every bit of our government in a matter of weeks? If this is the crap we are going to buy into with the Trump movement, you will drive people away in droves and elect Hillary. The moment Trump went this direction in the campaign, he lost me, and he’ll do it for the general to millions if continued. He’s got my vote in November, but not if more nonsense like this is used.
GOP foreign policy “experts”, considering their record, baffle everyone.
Not just GOPe cronies, but all the “experts” from Foggy Bottom, are bring ignored. I love it so much, I’m just about to switch from Cruz to Trump.
Right on, Travis. Good one!
I certainly like hearing that Bolton is one advising Trump. I really respect Mr. Bolton.
“I see this as a good thing. Enough Stanford know-it-alls and their failed ideas.”
I agree. US foreign policy from Woodrow Wilson on has essentially been a botch. Every so often things like Pearl Harbor, Germany’s declaration of war against us, and Stalin’s iron curtain have forced us to do the right thing.
From Kissinger on, however, US foreign policy has been not only ineffectual and misguided, it has been increasingly perverse and wicked.
Dump the ‘experts’ out in a container, scour the pot with chlorine, put it in an autoclave and start with a fresh batch.
That’s what I got out of this- Who the hell is Kori Schake? and why is her opinion of Trump’s picks important?
“”I don’t know any of them,” said Kori Schake, ..... a former official in the George W. Bush State Department.”
GOOD!
We need another “dunce” like Ronald Reagan.
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We’ve got one. So far he is winning. May that continue!
Trump is a narcissist who is just going to do whatever he wants anyway, these advisors are just window dressing.
I’d rather have a “narcissist” who does what’s right for the country rather than a bunch of neocon war barons who make a few hundred million on every nation building adventure.
“One of them is terrorism analyst Walid Phares. A professor at the National Defense University who has worked at the conservative Hudson Institute, Phares has warned that Islamists inside the U.S. “are here to spread Sharia.”
“Another Trump adviser concerned with domestic Islam is Joseph Schmitz, a former Pentagon inspector general with ties to the Center for Security Policy. The center’s president is Frank Gaffney,
“Two of the five people Trump cited Monday have private sector backgrounds. One of them, George Papadopoulos, is a 2009 college graduate and an international energy lawyer.
“Another private-sector Trump adviser is Carter Page, a former investment banker and global energy consultant who graduated from the Naval Academy
“Rounding out Trump’s list is retired Army Lieutenant General Joseph “Keith” Kellogg, who served as chief operating officer of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) in Baghdad, Iraq, from November 2003 through March 2004.
“Trump has said that his national security advisory committee would be chaired by Republican Senator Jeff Sessions, who serves on the Senate Armed Services Committee— though Sessions is not generally regarded as one of his party’s leading national security voices.
“I don’t know any of them,” said Kori Schake, a research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and a former official in the George W. Bush State Department.
“Schake left the State Department in order to serve as a senior policy adviser to the McCain-Palin 2008 presidential campaign, where she was responsible for policy development and outreach in the areas of foreign and defense policy. Earlier in the campaign, she had been an adviser to Rudy Giuliani.- wiki
Well, we only know he's a narcissist. We don't know about the other part yet!
It was Bush who AFTER 911 allowed in MORE Muslims into the U.S. than were allowed in the previous two decades.
LOL.
LOL
“I don’t know any of them,” said Kori Schake, a research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and a former official in the George W. Bush State Department. “National security is hard to do well even with first rate people. It’s almost impossible to do well with third rate people.”
*sigh*
If he doesn’t know them how can he know they’re “third rate people”?
They think we’re stupid.
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