Posted on 05/06/2016 4:47:40 PM PDT by Mariner
WASHINGTON
Even with the Republican nomination seemingly locked up, Donald Trump remains radioactive to the party’s top national security strategists, who warn that his “incoherent” approach to world affairs could prove dangerous for the United States.
In March, 121 members of the GOP’s national security brain trust signed on to a scathing open letter opposing Trump for president, calling his sense of U.S. influence around the globe “wildly inconsistent and unmoored in principle.” This week, in interviews and on social media after Trump’s decisive win in Indiana, more than a dozen of those signatories reiterated that stance, leaving Trump with a shallow pool from which to seek advisers on diplomacy and defense.
That seems to suit Trump just fine. He’s portrayed GOP foreign policy architects, especially those who planned the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as liars and losers, and has suggested there would be no place for the old guard in his White House.
Trump also bragged on CNN earlier this week that his international business deals give him more foreign policy experience than “virtually anyone” in the presidential race; he backpedaled only slightly when reminded that Hillary Clinton served as secretary of state.
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Have you?
Roger Zakheim, American Enterprise Institute
If your team keeps losing, you change the manager.
Most of these so-called “National Security Experts” are the warmongering neo-con artists that migrated like a virus from the democrat party in the 1980’s.
LOL! He poked them in the eye specifically during his Foreign Policy speech!
The so-called “experts” have really done a bang-up job for the last 25 years haven’t they???...ROFL
Bottom line... Trump the realist vs a bunch of Academic hacks
Name the last successful foreign policy venture launched by all these neocon experts in international affairs? Yeah, I can’t think of one either.
Trump did the unthinkable...he told the truth. These “leaders” that have run this nation into the sewer are now exposed, that’s ALL this is about.
I can think of a lot worse things in life. Like, to be loved by the entire Arab world.
Trump also bragged on CNN earlier this week that his international business deals give him more foreign policy experience than “virtually anyone” in the presidential race; he backpedaled only slightly when reminded that Hillary Clinton served as secretary of state.
What did she accomplish as Secretary of State?
It’s only incoherent if you think the Kingdom of Saud is more important than the fruited plain.
Roger is 100% wrong.
Who said it..?
“When people see a smaller horse, and a stronger horse, they naturally are drawn to the STRONGER horse..”
All of us know who. And he was right. IS right.
And so the Arabs will come to imagine that they LIKE Trump.
That they ALWAYS liked Trump.
Just wait.
I'm pretty sure Trump will tell the entire country several times over.
Repeatedly.
“Most of these so-called “National Security Experts” are the warmongering neo-con artists”
And I bet every last one of them have investments in all the defense industry corporations
Actually, I think Trump’s “America First” foreign policy is very coherent and long overdue. It is the foreign policy of Bush II and Obama that have been absolute disasters.
Trump knows what The Cold War was all about.
Putin knows what The Cold War was all about.
Neo-cons are all about THEMSELVES, and have not, and do not, give one grain of rice about any John Q. / Jsne Q. Public!!
**I** am a Cold War vet, and I know what it was all about.
The last general that had any real ideas about combat was Schwarzkopf, and he’s been gone a while now, with no real understudies, just a lot of generals cozying who they could to keep their jobs until they retire in Cushion City.
So, we have a man who speaks his mind, knows and understands his enemies, and has plans for what to do, AFTER firing the neo-cons.
They should be afraid.
Nope
They have brought us to where we are today
“Name the last successful foreign policy venture launched by all these neocon experts in international affairs? Yeah, I can’t think of one either.”
Iraq and Afghanistan were both very successful until the Democrats got control of Congress in ‘07 and cut their funding. And the counter-ISIS Operation Inherent Resolve can’t even get off the ground due to lack of funding and over-restrictive RoE. Again due to the democrats.
The democrats don’t just sabotage America at home.
Btw, even with the funding cuts and withdrawals I have both Iraq and Afghanistan in the W column. I was there and know many things you’ll be reading about in 15 years when they’re declassified. Books will be written by people who actually participated in events.
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