Posted on 12/13/2016 6:02:59 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
“Absolute disaster”: that’s how Joe Scarborough described the prospect of John Bolton serving as Deputy Secretary of State on today’s Morning Joe.
Scarborough blamed “neo-cons” for boosting Bolton, singling out Sheldon Adelson. Said Scarborough: “he needs to tell Sheldon Adelson, sorry, I love you buddy, and I’ll play blackjack out at your casino, but I can’t let you destroy US foreign policy because you like this guy.”
Scarborough’s beef with Bolton focused on his hawkish approach to foreign policy, noting that he was one of the few in the foreign-policy community still saying that the invasion of Iraq was a good idea. Scarborough suggested that Bolton’s stance would put him at odds with Trump, who made his opposition to the Iraq war a key element of his campaign.
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Scarborough blasts Bolton as “absolute disaster” as Dep. SecState pick.
Ping to Liberal Media Criticism list.
Does anyone actually agree with this? Bolton always struck me as the real deal.
Oh and necon is the most over-used term EVER.
I like him.
I’ve watched Bolton on Fox News and he dances around the issues a bit like Syria wanting to take out the Islamic State to be sure but ending up talking about how bad Iran is and bringing ‘other nations’ into the Syrian thing.
We don’t need any more Saudi involvement because the Saudis and the Neocons have made a mess of Syria and helped create the Islamic State.
Sheldon Adelson obviously supports Israel and is opposed to Iran.
But why do we have to fight a war in Syria to stop Iran?
The GOP enabled the Iran Nuclear Deal they like to blame on Obama all the time with the Corker Bill. It raised the NO threshold to 2/3 of the Senate to stop the deal.
Now all those GOP politicians beat their chests about bring back the sanctions on Iran.
The Israel Lobby never punished the Democrat politicians who supported the Iran Deal and still considered them supporters of Israel in the last election cycle.
Bolton? I dunno. I really liked him at UNaccountable bureaucrats though.
http://www.rightspeak.net/2015/10/john-bolton-un-doesnt-work-heres-fix.html
To bad, Joe wasn’t elected as POTUS...
If Joe is upset, I’m happy!
Bolton should have been SoS, but I’ll settle for Deputy.
It’s a great tactic to get Rex approved, since they know who would be nominated next.
Not necessarily
I just want someone that will go after all the Kerry’s in the state dept, the people that will try to sabotage Trump’s agenda. It needs reform
One cal always know who a good person is when the left hate them.
That's what neocons always say. They've been running away from the term ever since they blew up their credibility in the Iraq war.
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