Posted on 03/24/2016 8:12:07 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Donald Trump’s decision to release the names of five foreign-policy advisers on Monday may have been meant to dispel mounting anxiety over the GOP front-runner’s unfathomable worldview. If that was his intent, the move failed miserably. Far from assuaged, many in Washington’s foreign-policy crowd are now more apprehensive than ever about the people who have Trump’s ear. Most had never heard of any of the advisers, and what they have heard hasn’t exactly inspired confidence. Nearly all say that Trump’s move to surround himself with neophytes and fringe players suggests he doesn’t grasp how Washington’s network of decision-makers collaborate on important global decisions. Should he become president, most believe that lack of understanding would bode ill for America’s geopolitical future.
Several experts claim that Trump’s failure to staff up his foreign-policy team is unprecedented. Though President Obama was a foreign-policy neophyte when he first arrived in Washington in 2006, he quickly hired scholars who were well known and respected on both sides of the aisle. Even Ted Cruz, loathed as he is by the D.C. establishment, has largely chosen his own geopolitical advisers from the same pool. Candidates with a real shot at the White House have long recognized that foreign policy is too serious to use as a political wedge — at least, until now.
“Either [Trump] doesn’t care about experience — understandable at one level, though his list of advisers would seem to overdo the appeal of young and fresh blood — or no one wants to taint his reputation by working for a guy whose views are often so harsh and unthinking,” says Michael O’Hanlon, a national-security scholar at the left-leaning Brookings Institution. “Those are both troubling possibilities.”
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Vote Trump.
So NR is explaining why US foreign policy is a screwed up consensus product
Man, Ted does more and more to endear himself to the establishment...the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Yes an America 1st team for the 1st time since the 1980s rather then the usual collections of Bush Family cronies and K Street lobbyist from the “Caucus for Perpetual War”.
You post a lot of anti Trump stuff and yet you haven’t responded to Shiva Fan’s challenge below! ???
Put Your Donation Where Your Mouth Is: Who do you think will win the Republican Nomination?
opinion | 23 March 2016 | ShivaFan
Posted on 3/23/2016, 4:34:05 PM by ShivaFan
This is simple. If some are so sure who has the momentum and will get the Republican convention, put your money (donation to FR) where your mouth is.
Personally, I would set this bet at $100 as fair game, but I think some are also suffering under the Obama “recovery” so I think a $40 bet in more fair.
Here would be the bet. Pick who you think will get the Republican nomination below by responding BET (name) in upper case. If your choice does NOT get the nomination then you donate $40 dollars to FreeRepublic.com support donation.
What do you say? This isn’t really gambling, just sort of a fun way to donate to Free Republic if you are wrong.
WHO WILL WIN THE REPUBLICAN NOMINATION? CHOOSE ONE NAME, NO SECOND CHANCES LATER. IF YOU ARE WRONG, YOU DONATE $40 DOLLARS TO FREE REPUBLIC:
Choices
BET TRUMP
BET CRUZ
BET KASICH
BET OTHER
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3412919/posts?page=1
And they wonder why people call them the "Uni-Party".
i.e. how to speed up shipping jobs overseas, bringing in more H1Bs and Muslim "refugees".
I’m tired of so-called conservatives/conservative orgs like NR who use political/ruling elite arguments.
The ruling/political elite and academic elite are absolutely part of the problem.
As Lord Acton said, “Power corrupts”. Career politicians are per se corrupt which is why we need term limits.
Once again, NR is on the wrong side of the argument.
Source: National Review
Reporter Puke: Brendan Bordelon
Subject: Trump fails miserably
Action: Round File
According to the irrelevant NR, there was misery involved in the failing.
“Nearly all say that Trump’s move to surround himself with neophytes and fringe players suggests he doesn’t grasp how Washington’s network of decision-makers collaborate on important global decisions.”
Oh, I think that Trump understands very well “how Washington’s network of decision-makers collaborate on important global decisions”.
And so do the rest of us !
I like when people submit things that are supposed to be “bad news” for Trump. Often proves to be the exact opposite.
“Most had never heard of any of the advisers, and what they have heard hasn’t exactly inspired confidence. Nearly all say that Trump’s move to surround himself with neophytes and fringe players suggests he doesn’t grasp how Washington’s network of decision-makers collaborate on important global decisions”
It’s called changing the paradigm, which is obviously something these people are not accustomed to.
“Should he become president, most believe that lack of understanding would bode ill for America’s geopolitical future”
So what, we have that now.
So Trump should hire the same advisors as Bush and Obama that brought us this peaceful world.
[It’s called changing the paradigm, which is obviously something these people are not accustomed to.]
No more ‘leaks’ to the media. New day dawning in America.
” many in Washington’s foreign-policy crowd are now more apprehensive than ever about the people who have Trump’s ear. Most had never heard of any of the advisers”
Yeh like the ones we are using now are so great. LOL!
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