Posted on 03/23/2016 6:09:03 AM PDT by reaganaut1
When Donald J. Trump finally began to reveal the names of his foreign policy advisers during a swing through Washington this week, the Republican foreign policy establishment looked at them and had a pretty universal reaction: Who?
Many foreign policy experts have been wondering for months about who might be counseling the leading Republican presidential candidate, who has unfurled such provocative proposals as reinstating waterboarding and barring foreign Muslims from entering the country.
Mr. Trump has promised to hire the worlds brightest minds to make up for his lack of political experience, but his new foreign policy team left some of the countrys leading experts in the field scratching their heads as they tried to identify his choices. And on a day when the Islamic State struck a blow to a major European capital, Mr. Trumps new team faced additional scrutiny.
Many of us who have held senior positions in previous Republican administrations have been asking each other if we have ever heard of them, and pretty much everybody is turning to Google to see what they can find, said Mike Green, a foreign policy expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies who served on President George W. Bushs National Security Council.
While most presidential campaigns have been offering lists of their high-profile advisers, Mr. Trump had repeatedly declined to reveal his, offering only that he developed his views about world affairs from listening to experts on television, and that he liked to come up with his own ideas.
That changed on Monday when, in an interview with The Washington Post editorial board, he shared the names of five advisers who signed up to be on his team: Joseph E. Schmitz, Gen. Keith Kellogg, Carter Page, George Papadopoulos and Walid Phares.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
That’s odd, because I am familiar with some of those names.
I wouldn’t expect Trump to pick advisers from the Republican Rolodex of foreign affairs experts. Based on recent comments on Israel and NATO and Japan and Korea I don’t think he’s listening to them anyway.
Because these “top experts” haven’t made a complete mess of foreign policy already.......
Top Experts have only compounded our troubles.
At least he is listening to someone.
Walter Duranty's mommy is clutching her pearls over Donald Trump. How unexpected.
Wonder how Limbaugh is going to spin this love affair of the establishment for Cruz, their supposed most hated.
Meet the new Bosses.
Same as the Old Bosses..........oh, wait................
“...Many of us who have held senior positions in previous Republican administrations have been asking each other if we have ever heard of them...”
In other words, if you don’t know them, they are worthless...Uh-huh...
Talk about GOPelite...
and so?
Precisely
Apparently the brother of Mary K. LeTourneau (Fualaau)
“...they are fighting for their own survival...”
Not really for their “survival”, but fighting so they can stay on the gravy train and not have to really work for a living...
The only people who think THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST work in DC are those who work in DC and idiots, but i repeat myself.
If they were truly experts, then why are we in the foreign affairs mess that we’re in?
Do you not know he was mocking Obama when he said that???
How many times has Obama said he heard about something on TV?????
at first look I thought that said ‘retards.’ My bad.
Trump could name PeeWee Herman as head of his Foreign Policy group and be ahead of the self serving idiots that are running things now, Republican or Democrat.
It didn’t say that in the article, and I don’t watch reality teevee.
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