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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Yes, it is very interesting. If they only knew how much that makes my decision feel right. We do not need more insiders. They just do not understand. Bless their hearts.
People get ugly when they see their power and spot at the trough is being threatened...between now and Nov. is gonna be ugly and nasty.
This whole article shows exactly how clueless and disassociated the Washington insiders are with the rest of America...
They really think they are the only people in this country that have a brain...
We, the “unwashed masses”, haven’t any idea how things should be run...
“Michael Rubin, a Middle East expert”
This is the expert who is quoted for most of the comments in the article. He attacks Trumps choices.
Does anybody know who he is and why he is considered an expert?
The usual. Ivy League, CFR, teaches military bigwigs about the Middle East for DoD. American enterprise Institute.
http://www.aei.org/scholar/michael-rubin/
Poor babies. Perhaps a shakeup is what is needed.
Between 2004 and 2009, he was editor of the Middle East Quarterly. He has received fellowships from the Council on Foreign Relations
and the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs.
Rubin has lectured in history at Yale University, Hebrew University, Johns Hopkins University, and worked as visiting lecturer at Universities of Sulaymaniyah, Salahuddin, and Duhok, in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
he doesn’t grasp how Washington’s network of decision-makers collaborate on important global decisions.
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EXACTLY the REASON people want Trump. We have had enough of the “experts” leading our country to rack and ruin. We are in the worst shape we have ever been in and so called experts continue to lead us to G;obalism and the destruction of America.
Jeff Sessions is all the expertise we need. He adises Trump. “Nuff said.”
God could appear and announce as part of Trump’s foreign policy team, and the media would still say the same crap.
I’m not sure what their problem is. It’s not like Trump is going to listen to them anyway.
You have it right! But then of course, most of the Libs/RiNoS don’t really believe in God. GO TRUMP!
ouch, my eyes :-)
>>I like when people submit things that are supposed to be “bad news” for Trump. Often proves to be the exact opposite
I think Laz tried to start a list, but I don’t know if it took off.
I have to agree. I’ve seen a number of items, for example, where I see someone denouncing Trump, and I think “well, that’s another plus for the guy!”
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