Posted on 12/01/2023 9:54:29 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
In 2014, then-Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) rose to the floor of the U.S. Senate to give a 24-minute speech denouncing Antony Blinken, nominated by President Barack Obama to be Deputy Secretary of State, as “dangerous to America.”
The speech is gaining attention again in conservative media circles in the wake of Blinken’s trip to the Middle East, in which he reportedly told Israel that it lacked “credit” to remove Hamas from the Gaza Strip, a goal the U.S. had supported in public.
McCain, known (and criticized) as a foreign policy hawk, said that he usually did not oppose presidential nominees, even from the opposing party, because “elections have consequences,” and the commander-in-chief generally had the right to pick his own team.
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McCain was a notorious war monger, so who knows what neoliberal 'interests and values' he was talking about.
But oddly enough (!), he wasn’t too bellicose toward Vietnam.
McCain will give Blinken a warm welcome in Hell someday.
Doesn’t make sense because their foreign policy ideas and results seems to align 100%
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