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The Colossally Dishonest Swamp Attack On Dr. Sebastian Gorka's First-Rate Scholarship
American Thinker ^ | March 17, 2017 | Barry Scott Zellen

Posted on 03/17/2017 8:47:34 AM PDT by Kaslin

I read with increasing alarm what appears to be a coordinated smear campaign by former members of the Obama administration and their ivory tower proxies, taking aim in the now-partisan press (including the New York Times, Washington Post, and NPR) to undermine the reputation of strategic theorist Dr. Sebastian Gorka. Gorka has risen to prominence over this very same period after his appointment to serve as deputy assistant to President Donald Trump.

Without a drop of evidence, these critics have unfairly ridiculed Gorka’s fine scholarship and academic background, ignoring his many contributions to the literature of warfare over many years. In so doing, these liberal policymakers and ivory-tower academics in international relations and strategic studies show they remain unfamiliar with – and consequently unappreciative of – the great work their counterparts at America’s military academies. In fact, they appear all too-quick to dismiss America’s military scholars whose dedication and service to America’s warfighters should instead be respected and appreciated.

This is very much the case in the recent assault upon the reputation of Dr. Gorka. Gorka’s work deserves to be read, not attacked without merit. The attacks we see seem to be the work of a small group of Obama partisans indifferent to the carnage caused on their own watch, based on their failed leadership and strategy. They are likely still in shock at now being exiled from the swamp, but their own records speak to their responsibility for the rise of ISIS, and the spread of jihadist violence across the Middle East, North Africa and into the heart of Europe. Now, they have launched a coordinated hit job against Gorka within weeks of his joining the administration.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: drsebastiangorka; gorka; presidenttrump; targetgorka; trumpcabinet

1 posted on 03/17/2017 8:47:34 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

He wore a traditional Hungarian jacket and that means he’s a raaaaaaacist..!!

he’s a goose-stepping Nazi Stormtrooper....!

Wah, wah, Waaah..!!


2 posted on 03/17/2017 8:53:48 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: Kaslin

Note that you never see Sebastian Gorka and Jonah Goldberg in the same frame. I suspect that they are one in the same.

In fact, I don't believe that Sebastian Gorka is a real person. Goldberg leaves the stage, slaps on that goatee thingy, inserts a monacle, and voilà!

3 posted on 03/17/2017 8:55:43 AM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: gaijin

Yeah, I thought the Obamanazis were really into diversity.

Instead they pick on a traditional Hungarian jacket.


4 posted on 03/17/2017 9:03:20 AM PDT by dforest
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To: billorites
Just because they have the same style of beard?

Ha ha that is hilarious.

Dr Gorka is a naturalized American citizen having been born in 1970 in London to Zsuzsa and Pál (Paul) Gorka, who fled to the United Kingdom from Hungary after the failed 1956 uprising. If you ever listened to him he does have an accent and it's not British.

Jonah Goldberg is the son of Lucianne Goldberg of Lucianne.com, who used to be a Freeper in the early years of Freerepublic.

5 posted on 03/17/2017 9:32:26 AM PDT by Kaslin ( In America, we understand that a nation is only living as long as it is striving- Donald Trump)
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To: Kaslin

I’ve heard him interviewed twice on NPR. It’s like listening to an expert conservative being interviewed by precious snowflakes. He eviscerates them. And they ask follow ups at their peril.

He’s actually quite amazing, and I have no doubt they would like him silenced.


6 posted on 03/17/2017 9:39:30 AM PDT by Mr. Douglas (Best. Election. EVER!)
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To: dforest

He used to be on Fox News a lot, but I assume he is quite busy being Deputy assistant in the Trump administration.


7 posted on 03/17/2017 10:06:41 AM PDT by Kaslin ( In America, we understand that a nation is only living as long as it is striving- Donald Trump)
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To: Mr. Douglas

He is very smart, that is for sure.


8 posted on 03/17/2017 10:08:01 AM PDT by Kaslin ( In America, we understand that a nation is only living as long as it is striving- Donald Trump)
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To: billorites

RE: I don’t believe that Sebastian Gorka is a real person. Goldberg leaves the stage, slaps on that goatee thingy, inserts a monacle, and voilà!

Whoever it is, he has the great gift of switching accents with relative ease. :)


9 posted on 03/17/2017 10:50:39 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: Kaslin

RE: He is very smart, that is for sure.

The man has one advantage — He did not graduate from one of our universities (e.g. Middlebury, Berkley or even “Fake news” umpire, Harvard ).

He received his Ph.D from Hungary’s Corvinus University.
Where he wrote his thesis on the difference between a terrorism of the Cold War and the terrorism of Al Qaeda.

A copy can be read here:

http://phd.lib.uni-corvinus.hu/314/1/gorka_sebestyen.pdf

(I correct myself after reading what I wrote above. He DID go to Harvard ( JFK School for Government ) in the late 1990’s ).


10 posted on 03/17/2017 11:01:24 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

(I correct myself after reading what I wrote above. He DID go to Harvard ( JFK School for Government ) in the late 1990’s )


You are correct, though, in writing that he did not graduate from Harvard.


11 posted on 03/17/2017 1:32:58 PM PDT by rwa265
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To: Kaslin

Sadly, the majority of people in this country at this point in our history have been rendered incapable of engaging in the critical thinking necessary to perceive that the mainstream media, the Democrat Party, the education systems, the entertainment community, and the government at all levels have been infiltrated with people who are committed to the destruction of our Constitutional Republic. An exaggeration? Wait and see. The attack on Gorka is obscene, but how many people can see that it is?


12 posted on 03/18/2017 5:45:23 AM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (God, Guns, and Trump will save the USA)
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