Posted on 08/17/2016 7:25:48 PM PDT by Lorianne
“I guess that experiment would have been tough on the ordinary Egyptian,” Hayden replied, without a hint of irony. As Tommy Lee Jones said in “Men in Black,” Gen. Hayden has no sense of humor that he’s aware of. He repeated the same point verbatim a few minutes later in his speech: It was a shame that the Muslim Brotherhood government of Egypt was overthrown, by acclaim of the majority of Egypt’s adult population, which had taken to the streets as the country careened towards ruin. Hayden, like Sen. John McCain, the Weekly Standard, and the majority of the Republican foreign policy establishment, believes that America should try to foster a democratic version of political Islam. It lionized Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood in Washington, nurtured Turkey’s dictator Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and armed “moderate Islamists” in Syria as a supposed democratic alternative to the Assad regime. Hayden’s specialty was signal intelligence, and by all accounts he was good at his job. He is clueless about foreign policy.
Gen. Hayden was perhaps the most prominent signator of a letter from fifty former national security officials who served in Republican administrations, declaring that Donald Trump “lacks the character, values and experience” required of a president and, if elected, “would put at risk our country’s national security and well-being.”
Trump responded, “The names on this letter are the ones the American people should look to for answers on why the world is a mess, and we thank them for coming forward so everyone in the country knows who deserves the blame for making the world such a dangerous place.”
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Trump will run the country like a business and Obama runs it like his own kingdom
That’s Trump’s biggest flaw: he’s clearly new at it.
But that’s one of the reasons I like him: he doesn’t have a lifetime of practiced deceit behind him.
What good is it to have experience, as Hayden does, in a broken system?
As far as I’m concerned, Hayden’s experience is worth nothing.
As Trump says, the foreign policy establishment are the ones ruining our country.
With all due respect, Trump has more executive experience than any other presidential candidate in the history of our nation.
Hillary has not one iota of executive experience. She hasn’t run any private organization, and everything she did run in the public sector was more of a board driven enterprise.
Trump has had a multi level national and international management team he directed directly. His company is well respected globally. He has amassed trillions in wealth.
No, Trump hasn’t been in politics, or governed from another office, but that is exactly what we have been dreaming for, (as you intimated).
Like you, I can’t wait to watch him executive team take over.
He’ll accomplish 5 to 10 times what anyone else would have.
January can’t come soon enough...
What experience did Obama have when he was running?
He still doesn’t have any.
Trump has had over 40 years of executive experience. Obama’s executive experience in 2008, on the other hand, was completely nonexistent.
This “lack of government experience’ crap is COMPLETE BS. Trump has experience dealing with the edicts, laws and whims of state, local, and federal government for nearly 50 years. It’s HIS kind of “government experience” we need in the Oval Office.
What has Obama or Hillary ever done?
Experience in what? Fraud? Lying? Selling influence?
What is necessary to be a good president is having the right values and choosing competent talent to implement them. Everything else is fluff.
... like the marxist halfrican had (has) experience ...
Ptuiii!
These 50 “experts” have done such a remarkable job. The media should be reporting on what a wonderful paradise Lybia is any day now. Has Minister Farrakhan sign this?
“lacks the character, values and experience” required of a president “
Hmmm. Trump’s character, values and experience, plus his positions on the issues, are the reason I’m choosing him.
Trump probably has more valid experience for running the Nation than any other President to date.
Open the door and let Mr. Trump in.
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