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 world’s brightest minds to make up for his lack of political experience, but his new foreign policy team left some of the country’s 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. Trump’s 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. Bush’s 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.
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Didn’t realize the NYT was still around.
Good to know.
Because these experts have been doing such a great job we should trust them
Trump delights in making fools out of Washington’s best and brightest.
It would seem that the NYT’s most esteemed foreign policy experts are not.
Only a DC insider, insulated from the consequences of their actions, would think reinstating waterboarding or barring foreign Muslims from entering the country are provocative proposals.
The bombings in Brussels are a direct result of that sort of thinking.
Make these idiots live like the rest of us—outside of their gated enclaves, without their armed security, reliant on public transportation—and their tune will change.
You mean he’s not listening to the architects of the Second Iraq War who relied on “WMD intelligence” provided by double agents and obvious frauds like the thief Achmed Chalabi? Sort of like not choosing Bernie Madoff for your financial advice despite all his wonderful resume and “expertise”.
Yep surprise an “American 1st Team” rather then the usual collection of K Street lobbyists and Bush family cronies from the “Caucus for Perpetual War”
Here we go again, the establishment only wants the known established? God forbid we bring in someone who doesn’t want to play by their rules. At the same time, we always go with what the NYT tells us who is best qualified. LOL. s/ Listened to Hillary last night, where we are suppose to set the example, and show the world how nice we really are. I guess she doesn’t know by now the nicer you are the harder they will kick you in the teeth.
Translation: Waaaaaaha, he didn’t choose US!!!
The list tells me Trump's foreign policy will be focused on mix of security, energy independence and cost benefit.
‘...the campaign had been looking for people with “real world” and military experience as opposed to retreads that other candidates relied on.’
To me this sounds like a winning plan. Rather than ivory tower types with soft white hands Trump has sought out those who’ve BTDT.
How utterly refreshing to see others than the ‘usual suspects’ on board. And an order of magnitude better than the gaggle of ‘advisors’ within the current abomination of an administration.
These people know they are uit of a jo and their gravy train is finished if Trump gets in and that is why we see the establishment fighting so hard like never before.. they are fighting for their own survival.
Speaking of the establishment . cruz now endorsed by Bush and yet cruz said this about the establishment.
“Let me encourage other members of the establishment: Keep supporting Donald Trump because every time you do it, what it is doing is telling conservatives all over the country is where you stand and who stands with you”.
- Ted Cruz, New Hampshire stump speech
Are there really educated Americans that are so naive that they actually belief our government doesn't do whatever they need to do? Why do they think the CIA operated interrogation centers in other countries? Maybe so that non US citizens not subject to any US law could do the actual work of the interrogation?
I think Trump should be more ‘inclusive’ when he becomes President and assign those ‘experts’ to be ambassadors in say Libya, Syria, Iran, Iraq and let them live in those countries for awhile. Maybe then these ‘experts’ would gain on the ground knowledge of how things are in the world....or maybe they might not come back alive?
Oh. What could possibly go wrong with that?
If they are confounded by a list of names, how the hell can they handle the constant challenges of foreign policy?
Tut tut...you're getting too complicated for an awful lot of people.
Do they really think the Government is paying $350.00 for a claw hammer?
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