Posted on 12/07/2014 5:39:18 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Defense Secretary Favorite Ash Carter Wanted To Bomb North Korea In 2006
Armin Rosen Dec 2, 2014, 11.25 PM
Ashton Carter, President Barack Obama's nominee to succeed Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense, is largely known as a behind-the-scenes player, a thinker and manager rather than a public agitator. This low profile is arguably one of Carter's top selling points.
After Hagel's troubled reign at the Pentagon, which ended in a highly public falling out with the White House over policy in the Middle East and accusations of laziness and dysfunction, it's prudent for the president to want a respected yet comparatively obscure figure like Carter to take over.
But that doesn't mean that Carter is totally surprise-free. As Time's Mark Thompson pointed out in April of 2013, Carter and a co-author argued for bombing North Korea in the summer of 2006 to prevent an upcoming ballistic missile test.
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I already like this guy.
Maybe Obama got something right...or, more likely, no one else would take the job (with this guy hoping to be held-over to the next administration).
Ashton Carter...
Peanuts and Billy had another brother?
There, fixed it.
It really doesn’t matter what he wants. It is what Jarrett wants. She tells Obama. Obama says ,”No or yes,” as directed.Hillary found that out as did several prior cabinet ministers. It is a top down oligarchy consisting of Jarrett, maybe Michelle and their puppet Obama. All others, nod your head.
*Don’t* like him. He’s been at Defense for most of Zero’s presidency, figuring ways to gut the U.S. Armed Forces. Carter will finish the job as SecDef and Obama / Jarrett “yes man.” He doesn’t have a single day of military service, is an Ivy League / Oxford egghead, and wrote anti-American articles for the Yale newspaper. He’s a left wing Trojan Horse.
I would say a top down kakocracy.
Thanks TigerLikesRooster.
I agree with Barack Obama on virtually nothing, but even broken clocks are right twice a day. How many officials in the Obama administration have publicly called for bombing anyone, let alone North Korea?
This might be a good move — even if unplanned — in light of the current Sony uproar. In his confirmation hearings he will be asked questions about bombing North Korea, and sending a strong message to North Korea right now is not a bad thing.
The first time a Nork missile left the launch pad toward Japan, I would have sent a missile to the launch pad.
I also would have sent a missile to put the USS Pueblo out of its misery, but that’s just me.
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