Posted on 03/22/2016 7:30:40 AM PDT by 20yearsofinternet
No one has ever heard of this Kori woman
Ever notice how many of these experts/politicans have weird names..
Kori ????
Ash Carter for example
Barack Obama............
Mitt or Willard Romney
Is there a more profound oxymoron than “GOP national security pros”?
Propagandico can be counted on to lie outright. Article dismissed.
Condi Rice was a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. I had the occasion to speak with her one-on-one several times and what she knew about the underpinnings of terrorism and the roots of conflict in the Middle East wouldn’t fill a matchbook cover. (Do they still make those...?)
The little-known secret of the “national security professionals club” is that they cycle in and out of the National Security Council and places like the Hoover Institution, Harvard’s JFK School and a few others and eventually, one of them becomes national security advisor. The problem is that, almost to a man (or woman) none of them have ever actually DONE anything.
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.
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“War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.”
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“For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it. Now that I see the international war clouds gathering, as they are today, I must face it and speak out.”
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“But what does it profit the men killed? What does it profit their mothers and sisters, their wives and sweethearts? What does it profit their children? What does it profit anyone except the very few to whom war means huge profits?
Yes, and what does it profit the nation?
Take our own case. Until 1898 we didn’t own a bit of territory outside the mainland of North America. At that time our national debt was a little more than $1,000,000,000. Then we became “internationally minded.” We forgot, or shunted aside, the advice of the Father of our country. We forgot George Washington’s warning about “entangling alliances.” We went to war. We acquired outside territory. At the end of the World War period, as a direct result of our fiddling in international affairs, our national debt had jumped to over $25,000,000,000.”
- Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, USMC, “War is a Racket”, 1935
Bolton? I hope so.....
This is truly the core reason why Ted Cruz’s remaining sycophants on Free Republic hate Donald Trump.
Cruz would never do this, and his empress of Neil Bush proves it.
Then why didn't Trump name him?
I wonder if Gen. Butler had a clue that there was a number like $25,000,000,000,000.
Yeah, a 2009 law graduate who worked as a lobbyist and famous for his UN Models.
Ever occur to you none of stature want to be linked to Trump?
Jeff Sessions is a nobody? OK.
I love the phrase “foreign policy experts” for it conjures up visions of an army swarming with ass kissing but lickers and panderers along with wanna-be selectees for good political positions and lucrative income from graft and corruption.
How do you become one of them....I want to live the good life too while not having to actually work or do anything?
I downloaded ‘War is a Racket’ recently to actually read the thing. Parts of it, like his numbers, are downright quaint. Conceptually, parts of his book could be slipped into current events and the only things that would be outstanding are the clarity of thought and defiance of contemporary policy dogmas.
Some aspects of his book are obsolete. Transnational corporatism and banking, for instance, have somewhat displaced war profiteering as the sole international racket. The book is an interesting read. Very direct and relatively short. It feels like an odd blend of Pat Buchanan, H.L. Mencken, and Mark Twain.
“Ever occur to you none of stature want to be linked to Trump?”
Ever occur to you that a new broom sweeps clean? That Trump’s intent is to carry out the neocon trash?
How is that damnation & hell project for everyone here who disagrees with you coming along, by the way?
“How do you become one of them....I want to live the good life too while not having to actually work or do anything?”
You must go to a remote mountaintop and ponder existence.
When a dry voices hisses in your ear, “All these things I will give you if you fall down and do an act of worship to me.” - DON’T DO IT! To do so would might get you the job, but truly, you would rather turn it down, and enjoy your cornbread, beans and greens than that high life. The bill for that lifestyle is far more than it is worth.
You must go to a remote mountaintop and ponder existence.
Can I do the same by sitting on the ground and pondering a tamale?
LoL!
Donald Trump must be reading Free Republic for advice.
Damned right he is. I'm one of his top advisers. ;o)
This is.the real reason the gop is against trump. They are gonna get bypassed.
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