Posted on 08/09/2016 10:34:21 AM PDT by C19fan
Last year I arrived early for a lunch address by Gen. Michael Hayden, who ran the National Security Agency and later the Central Intelligence Agency in the George W. Bush administration. Hayden was already there, and glad to chat. The conversation turned to Egypt, and I asked Hayden why the Republican mainstream had embraced the Muslim Brotherhood rather than the military government of President al-Sisi, an American-trained soldier who espoused a reformed Islam that would repudiate terrorism. We were sorry that [Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed] Morsi was overthrown in July 2013, Hayden explained. We wanted to see what would happen when the Muslim Brotherhood had to take responsibility for picking up the garbage.
General, I remonstrated, when Morsi was overthrown, Egypt had three weeks of wheat supplies on hand. The country was on the brink of starvation!
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Trump has 50 years of experience in negotiating with politicians and being a senior executive.
Which is a hell of a lot more than Odumbo came into office with.
"State a moral case to a ploughman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules." -- Thomas Jefferson, 1787These signers of a letter, and all the rest are discrediting the honest opinions of millions of American voters who, as citizens, looked at the state of their nation, evaluated the individuals who have participated in getting us to this point, rejected the candidates they proposed, and used their innate, Creator-endowed sense of reason and right, as they voted for a flawed (aren't all of them?). They now are being judged as being too ignorant to make such a judgment!
“Three administrations of Bush father and son have produced a monotone Establishment of functional foreign policy morons.”
Excellent essay. Spengler states the obvious: fat cats in sweet jobs are not creative or helpful. Trump has managed to fresh. Trump is a blessing to our country, for sure.
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