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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Of course they didn’t say this in the article...The article was ANTI-TRUMP...
What does reality TV have to do with this anyway???
Do you not know he was mocking Obama when he said that???
How many times has Obama said he heard about something on TV?????
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its unfortunate that only a few of us got that joke...
If trump is on, it’s “reality TV”
None of them must be from Harvard
What the heck? That’s where Trumpbots get their world affairs expertise, too. Or is it the Simpsons?
Thanks for showing the extent of your intelligence...You are dismissed...
Isn’t it the truth??? I thought it was kinda obvious....
Well, you got your handle right, anyway....
I have heard Walid Phares speak on several occasions and he clearly knows the truth about everyone in the middle east and yet Obama the White House Muslim has several members of the Muslim Brotherhood as close advisors...
RIGHT; because the EXPERTS have been doing such a great job.
“”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.””
I would hardly call any of her speeches friendly or pleasant. She’s one angry woman. Why can’t she just lower the tone, tamp down the anger and speak like a normal person? WHO is she mad at? Everyone?
It seems that the “top experts” haven’t done such a hot job over the years...
I would hardly call any of her speeches friendly or pleasant. She’s one angry woman. Why can’t she just lower the tone, tamp down the anger and speak like a normal person? WHO is she mad at? Everyone? ..................... LOL, the best laughable part of her speech was “I can unite our country” or something like it. At that point I had enough and went back to watching a Russian Movie on You Tube.
Truth
Don't lose any sleep over that, because I won't want your opinion.
Have a great day!
Nah. Couldn't be the Simpsons. Not that far up the food chain.
I guess The Donald doesn’t think that they are “top”. Bwaaaaahahaha.
It doesn’t matter WHEN someone “gets here”...
Only a person who isn’t sure of himself uses the “noob” name calling..
It doesn’t matter how long or how short a person has been on a site...What matters is what that person has to say...
I’ve been around on this earth for 67 years...I am a Vietnam veteran and have voted in elections since 1972... I have worked for the last 50 years straight and have looked in here quite often, but until I retired I haven’t had the time to come here and converse...
Now if it makes you puff out your chest because you’ve been posting in here longer than me, go for it...But in your mind, you need to realize that it’s what is being said that’s important...Not how long you’ve been here...
Now, you have a great day also...
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