Posted on 03/23/2016 1:47:52 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Presidential candidate Donald Trump, after some delay, has named a few of his foreign policy advisers. One says he hopes that if Trump is elected, cooler heads will persuade him not to carry through on some of his promises.
Walid Phares is a writer, Fox News commentator and onetime national security adviser to 2012 Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Although scores of GOP foreign policy specialists wrote an open letter denouncing various Trump views as "unmoored in principle," "a recipe for economic disaster," "inexusable," or reflecting "the sentiment of a racketeer," Phares decided he could help the candidate.
"It is hard to sign on," he told Morning Edition, "because it's a very politically charged ambiance ... but I accepted the task because I think there needs to be a major change in our policy" toward the Middle East. Phares said Trump asked him "to provide education."
The conversation revealed that Phares opposes some of Trump's most attention-getting proposals and wants to persuade the candidate not to pursue them.
Trump has repeatedly called for the United States to "torture" terrorism suspects. His most recent call came after Tuesday's attacks in Brussels. Trump said that a terrorism suspect currently in custody, and cooperating with authorities, would have talked "faster" if he had been tortured.
Phares defended Trump's repeated statements on torture as not an actual policy but as "a reaction to a very complex and difficult and challenging situation." Trump is calling for torture "because we are in a political season," he said, but in the White House "he's going to be tasking experts to answer that question, and I'm not sure that the experts are going to recommend any form of torture."
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Always trust NPR : )
Gosh, the last thing we’d want to do is torture Mus-slimes to gain information as to their next attack. Mercy sakes.
No , when it comes to these radical ISIS/al Qaeda/Taleban jihadists , torture is the only way .
I’m sure the guy in Belgium is being served belgian chocolates right now ....
Feed them LSD and them make them listen to endless loops of Bernie Sanders
Water boarding, sleep deprivation, and such are not torture. According to libbies it is, but head chopping is okay.
I think when most people think torture they think of genital mutilation, electrocuting, shooting kneecaps (maybe). Not sure waterboarding is on that list.
After the next set of attacks on our soil, I predict that those who advocate waterboarding will be the moderates.
“The conversation revealed that Phares opposes some of Trump’s most attention-getting proposals and wants to persuade the candidate not to pursue them.
Trump has repeatedly called for the United States to “torture” terrorism suspects. His most recent call came after Tuesday’s attacks in Brussels. Trump said that a terrorism suspect currently in custody, and cooperating with authorities, would have talked “faster” if he had been tortured. “
I am with Trump 100% on this one.
Others need to decide which is more important, the lives of many innocent people or the comfort of the terrorists who are doing everything they can to murder us.
RE: I am with Trump 100% on this one.
Even Terrorism “suspects”?
.... Phares echoes a number of Trump supporters wrestling with the oft-repeated controversial promises that have become the central themes of Trump’s campaign. These supporters express hope that if Trump is elected, it will turn out that the blunt-talking businessman does not mean what he says.
I thought you left.
In the US everyone is only called a “suspect”, even if you have a hundred witnesses to the murder, until he is actually convicted in a court of law.
You cannot deal with terrorists this way.
If Trump’s ‘foreign policy advisor’ had his daughter kidnapped by ISIS, he’d be singing a different tune.
Thank God for Trump.
You sick SOB...
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