Posted on 03/26/2018 6:16:32 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Donald Trump and his White House are not about process. They are about results. And this is something the good general [McMaster] failed to understand. Especially when it came to our policy in Afghanistan, a topic on which the current national security adviser held no less than six principals meetings, each time trying to convince the commander in chief that a large-footprint presence was required in that benighted nation until, that is, President Trump pointed out to Gen. McMaster that he was not elected to continue the broken nation-building policies of the post-9/11 years. This commander in chief can stand actually encourages disagreement among the ranks, but only if it is based on common sense and the realities of his mandate.
Already one can hear the voices of those who think Boltons public statements on Iraq and, more recently, North Korea will bring him into instant conflict with his new boss. Not so. For as the ambassador made clear in a rather lengthy Fox News interview given just minutes after the president posted his tweet announcing the personnel change, the ambassador has fully internalized that which McMaster never did.
Quoting legendary Secretary of State Dean Achesons response to the question of why he and President Truman had such a good relationship, Acheson replied that the answer was easy: Neither the president or I ever forgot who is president.
The fact that this was the quote the NSA-designee highlighted, in his very first interview after the announcement, speaks greatly to just how much Bolton gets what his new job is. That is not to say that Bolton will be a yes man. Anyone who knows the ambassador knows how unlikely a scenario that would be. Just one Bolton speech of yesteryear makes that abundantly clear.
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Afghanistan, a topic on which the current national security adviser held no less than six principals meetings, each time trying to convince the commander in chief that a large-footprint presence was required in that benighted nation
If we pull out of Afghanistan, where will Americans get their Heroin?? Where will the CIA get their funding??
Seeds of Terror
How heroin is bankrolling the Taliban and al Qaeda.
http://failuremag.com/feature/article/seeds_of_terror/#ixzz35QhbgQ8K
Drug shipments off of Africa have significantly increased since 2009
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/kt-article-display-1.asp?xfile=data/international/2014/June/international_June26.xml§ion=international
Drug trafficking, kidnapping fund al Qaeda
By Rachel Ehrenfeld, Special to CNN -May 4, 2011
http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/05/03/ehrenfeld.al.qaeda.funding/
Qatar used as transit point by drug traffickers: Expert 2013
http://thepeninsulaqatar.com/news/qatar/253421/qatar-used-as-transit-point-by-drug-traffickers-expert-
Obama secretly released high risk Taliban terrorists to the care of Qatar. (Qatar is where the US established for Taliban headquarters in 2011.)
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-offers-the-taliban-a-new-mideast-headquarters-2011-9
Islamic Revolutionaries under any name you google are tied to the Heroin trade along with most other drugs, as well as human trafficking.
http://www.newsweek.com/2013/06/12/talibans-new-role-afghanistans-drug-mafia-237524.html
Heroin production hits record levels in Afghanistan - study
http://rt.com/news/156128-afghanistan-drugs-usa-heroin/
Drug War? American Troops Are Protecting Afghan Opium. U.S. Occupation Leads to All-Time High Heroin Production
http://www.globalresearch.ca/drug-war-american-troops-are-protecting-afghan-opium-u-s-occupation-leads-to-all-time-high-heroin-production/5358053
Terrorists in Americas Back Yard
State Department Reports Hezbollah Increasing Drug and Terrorism in South America 2013
http://interamericansecuritywatch.com/exporting-terror-in-americas-backyard/
There has indeed been a marked resurgence of Iranian state sponsorship of terrorism over the past 18 months. But as the new Nisman report drives home, heres an even more disturbing fact Iran has run intelligence networks in the United States backyard to sponsor, foster and execute terrorist attacks for decades.
Criminal plans by Iran could be under way in Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago, the report said.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/03/world/americas/iran-latin-america/
Mexican Cartels Buying Afghan Heroin
http://www.banderasnews.com/1101/nr-afghanheroin.htm
Obamas America:
The horrific toll of Americas heroin epidemic
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26672422
Americas Heroin Epidemic -BBC 2014
The SEC sees no evil while Wall Street banks launder $BILLIONS in cartel
money. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/apr/03/us-bank-mexico-drug-gangs
Hedge Fund Manager, Banker, and the largest Individual donor to Obamas coiffeurs, continues to pour $Millions into thenDrug Legalization Campaign, made to look like citizen activism. George Soros 2/2014
http://www.hightimes.com/read/how-one-percent-will-legalize-marijuana
As medical marijuana legalization spreads across the country, police and other industry warnings about the dangers of legalizing marijuana ignored by media
http://www.flsheriffs.org/newsroom/entry/florida-sheriffs-pass-resolution-to-oppose-the-legalization-of-marijuana
DEA has been caught laundering money as well, Agency officials declined to publicly discuss details of their work, citing concerns about compromising their investigations.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/world/americas/us-drug-agents-launder-profits-of-mexican-cartels.html?_r=3&pagewanted=1&partner=rss&emc=rss&;
Mexican Diplomat Says America Pretty Much Invited The Sinaloa Drug Cartel Across The Border
http://www.businessinsider.com/stratfor-the-us-works-with-cartels-2012-9#ixzz36vAJbBpS
Obama shut down the NDIC in 2012, the itelligence agency dedicated to tracking terrorism funded by drug trafficking.
http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/tag/national-drug-intelligence-center/
Mexican cartel violence is at an all-time high along the increasingly porous southern border yet the Obama Administration has shut down a critical intelligence agency dedicated to identifying, tracking and severing the nexus between drug trafficking and terrorism.
CONFIRMED: The DEA Struck A Deal With SINALOA Mexicos Most Notorious Drug Cartel (They claimed feds agreed they could traffic into Chicago) JAN. 13, 2014
more: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-government-and-the-sinaloa-cartel-2014-1#ixzz30wXEcHSl
U.S. Government and Top Mexican Drug Cartel Exposed as Partners
Written by Alex Newman Jan. 2014
http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/north-america/item/17396-u-s-government-and-top-mexican-drug-cartel-exposed-as-partners
The link between drugs and crime, including violent crime, would be hard to overstate in Chicago. Eighty-six percent of adult males arrested in Chicago last year tested positive for drug use. Chicago, with a population of 2.7 million, had 506 murders in 2012, the highest per capita among the four most populous U.S. cities.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-17/heroin-pushed-on-chicago-by-cartel-fueling-gang-murders.html
The Truth About Chicagos Crime Rates (cooking the books)
http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/May-2014/Chicago-crime-rates/
Dirty doctors, Russian mafia fueling prescription drug and heroin abuse in N.J., investigation finds
http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/07/nj_state_commission_of_investigation_prescription_drug_heroin_abuse.html
Opiates are now the leading cause of accidental deaths, surpassing car crashes and alcohol. http://elitedaily.com/news/world/prescription-painkillers-overtake-car-crashes-leading-accidental-death-us/
Banks Laundering Cartel Drug Money -Rampant
http://www.globalresearch.ca/money-laundering-and-the-drug-trade-the-role-of-the-banks/5334205
BORDER CRISIS: CONGRESSMAN SAYS FEDERAL GOVERNMENT CAUSING HUMAN TRAFFICKING
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/07/05/Congressman-Illegls-Aliens-Rise-Obama-Advertises-If%20you-Come-You-Can-Stay
Cartels Exploit Immigration Crisis To Smuggle More Drugs Across Border
By Frank Diez July 03, 2014
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2014/07/03/cartels-exploit-immigration-crisis-to-smuggle-more-drugs-across-border/
Mexican Cartels are Behind Border Crisis -2014
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/23/how-mexico-s-cartels-are-behind-the-border-kid-crisis.html
Drug dealing, informant get border pass -2014
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/informant-gets-free-border-pass-675432
EXCLUSIVE: Photos Show Drugs Pouring Over Southern Arizona Border as Agent Resources are Overwhelmed Jul 08, 2014
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2014/07/08/exclusive-photos-show-drugs-pouring-over-southern-arizona-border-n1859982
The Obama Administrations Human Trafficking
July 11, 2014 by Arnold
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/arnold-ahlert/the-obama-administrations-human-trafficking/
Anyone in Trump’s inner circle who believes in MAGA scares the hell out of the left wing and the Deep Staters.
That implies that Trump has either not been following an America First foreign policy or that up to now he hasn't been in control of his own foreign policy. Not sure which is worse.
I sure would hate for “Seb” to be my nickname.
Reminds me of dandruff, not to mention sebaceous cysts.
The Constitution of Afghanistan is explicitly Islamic. America should not be defending any Nation built on that evil foundation.
President Trump doesn't need anyone from the list of names on this document polluting his administration:
Mr. President, Milosevic Is The Problem
I'll save everyone the trouble and post the names here:
Morton I. Abramowitz
Elliott Abrams
Richard L. Armitage
Nina Bang-Jensen
Jeffrey Bergner
George Biddle
John R. Bolton (well, how about that?)
Frank Carlucci
Eliot Cohen
Seth Cropsey
Dennis DeConcini
Paula Dobriansky
Morton H. Halperin
John Heffernan
James R. Hooper
Bruce P. Jackson
Robert Kagan
Zalmay Khalilzad
Lane Kirkland
Jeane Kirkpatrick
Peter Kovler
William Kristol
Mark P. Lagon
Richard Perle
Peter Rodman
Gary Schmitt
Stephen Solarz
Helmut Sonnenfeldt
William Howard Taft IV
Ed Turner
Wayne Owens
Paul Wolfowitz
Dov S. Zakheim
So there you have it ... John Bolton calling on the Clinton administration to topple the (nominally Christian) Serb government on behalf of the radical Islamic insurgents in Kosovo.
Bolton has been a war-mongering globalist for years. I suspect he's spent most of his time outside of government working as a paid shill for foreign corporate and government interests.
Does anyone really believe THIS guy is going to "put America first?" LOL.
Pretty eye-opening to see the McMaster millstone Trump has had around his neck all these months. The fact that he’s gotten anything done is remarkable ... I wouldn’t say Trump hasn’t been in control, but he’s been fragged constantly with leaks, etc. & burdened with folks who are definitely not on the Trump Train. Bolton has a lot of house cleaning ahead of him.
Good Riddance to Disloyal Mr. McMaster
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/03/good_riddance_to_disloyal_mr_mcmaster.html
Bolton is a great addition.
McMaster never should have been in there.
American interests over UN interests.
Quoting legendary Secretary of State Dean Achesons response to the question of why he and President Truman had such a good relationship, Acheson replied that the answer was easy: Neither the president or I ever forgot who is president.
Thanks RoosterRedux.
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