Posted on 06/30/2019 10:22:57 PM PDT by bitt
BESIDES BEING BILLIONAIRES and spending much of their fortunes to promote pet causes, the leftist financier George Soros and the right-wing Koch brothers have little in common. They could be seen as polar opposites. Soros is an old-fashioned New Deal liberal. The Koch brothers are fire-breathing right-wingers who dream of cutting taxes and dismantling government. Now they have found something to agree on: the United States must end its forever war and adopt an entirely new foreign policy.
In one of the most remarkable partnerships in modern American political history, Soros and Charles Koch, the more active of the two brothers, are joining to finance a new foreign-policy think tank in Washington. It will promote an approach to the world based on diplomacy and restraint rather than threats, sanctions, and bombing. This is a radical notion in Washington, where every major think tank promotes some variant of neocon militarism or liberal interventionism. Soros and Koch are uniting to revive the fading vision of a peaceable United States. The street cred they bring from both ends of the political spectrum along with the money they are providing will make this new think tank an off-pitch voice for statesmanship amid a Washington chorus that promotes brinksmanship.
This is big, said Trita Parsi, former president of the National Iranian American Council and a co-founder of the new think tank. It shows how important ending endless war is if theyre willing to put aside their differences and get together on this project. We are going to challenge the basis of American foreign policy in a way that has not been done in at least the last quarter-century.
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I think that character was based in part on a type of Soros character.
Scary guy.
...but Stephan kinser is an award winning author.
Guess we all know what that’s worth these days.
Don't you love how they taint the water from the start with their semantics to portray the Koch's as *fire breathing right wingers* while Soros is painted as the older grandfatherly type who cares about people?
What a bunch of crap.
So what's wrong with cutting taxes and dismantling government? They say that like it's a bad thing.
I see it as trying to prep the world for world unity and a one world government.
I see what you did there.
Nicely played.
Soros and the Koch brothers are neither right nor left. They are for the global oligarchs.
The two of ‘em are running to get in front of a parade that’s already formed - by our own President Trump.
Their plan only works if the United States is strong and energy independent - two situations President Trump created. That said I have doubts about Koch and could never trust Soros... This reeks of attempting to steal Trump’s thunder...
Sod off, swampy.
Exactly!! They are both tabid, anti-Trumpers, aa well.
$0ros should be in prison. Koch is an idiot.
Then leave and go back to Glenn Becks site, for your mental stimulation. Lolol.
The posters comment was spot on.
Yours? Not so much. Just rude.
There is NOTHING astonishing about this... The Koch’s and Soros are EVIL.. the only differentiator is of degrees.
The GOP needs to extract itself from KOCH dollars... and the DNC needs to extract itself from SOROS money... neither will do it, which is why this nation’s lifespan is limited.
That’s what I was thinking. Endorse Trump because he wants the same thing. But they won’t because Orange Man Bad Nazi
Thanks.
In an astonishing turn, George Soros and Charles Koch team up to end US forever war policy
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There’s no way these two are really against “forever wars”. How are they going to cram crony-capitalism down the throats of the the entire world without the U.S. military?
He did an Oscar winning, great job.
I still get scared when I think of his face!
Thanks, Rooster
In my opinion, the Kochs and Soros are two sides of the same coin. Neither cares about America as a sovereign country. Each wants to change America. The Kochs want to do so by opening the borders to anyone who wants to come in. They do so not because of a desire to help the downtrodden. They do so to have access to cheap labor that fattens their bottom line. Soros wants open borders to fundamentally change the culture and character of America. At the same time, Soros is involved at a grassroots level with changing our criminal justice system. He is doing so by supporting District Attorney candidates who willingly accept his financial largess in return for undermining how our laws are enforced. All in all, that the Kochs and Soros are openly working together is bad news for America.
The very wealthy can now see the endgame of global governance.
Ha!
They are fire-breathing open-borders, closet Dems.
Soros is a communist.
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