Posted on 05/09/2017 8:09:32 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., a frequent critic of the Trump administration, blasted Secretary of State Rex Tillerson for suggesting that America’s foreign policy must stray from its core values at times.
Tillerson said it was important to “understand the difference between policy and values,” in an address to State Department employees Wednesday. He said that that “America First” means that U.S. national security and economic interests will sometimes override the demand for other countries to adhere to American values.
“If we condition too heavily that others must adopt this value that we’ve come to over a long history of our own, it really creates obstacles to our ability to advance our national security interests, our economic interests,” Tillerson said.
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This guy never stops bitching. Go retire jerk.
I don’t know whether Tillerson is right or wrong. I cringed when he made that statement...but I will always slam Mccain no matter what!
Tillerson was only stating reality.
McCain is just doing anything he can to throw a wrench into Trump’s work.
McCain has got to go. I am entirely frustrated that he has managed to stay a Senator from Arizona.
Tillerson is absolutely right. And McCain, as usual, is an idiot.
I wonder if there happens to be a money stream being interrupted that affects certain coffers.
McCain is covering for his crimes. Desperately. He’s involved in the spying and unmasking. What Tillerson said is obvious and McCain’s supposed approach would leave us talking to about 10% of the counties in the world.
McCain has been photographed with leaders of ISIS. Fact is we deal with people opposed to our values since the beginning. It’s about national safety first.
Hey, hey, ho, ho, John McCain has got to go.
Q: when we had a dimowit prez did we have a daily headline that started with “McCain Blasts”?
A: No.
I rest my case. I can only conclude that McCain is happiest when we are out of power (don’t get me wrong, he loves HIS poser power).
The first thing that went through my head when Tillerson said that was the military soldier that faced trouble because he couldn’t stand the young boy being chained and raped and treated as a sex slave. That is their culture.
The Toast of the Democrat Party.
Translation: The US can’t be the world’s policeman and we must deal with all kinds of unsavory regimes to advance our national interests. It is called Realpolitik. It is the exact opposite of Jimmy Carter’s human rights foreign policy that led us to crack down on our allies (like the Shah) and do little to our adversaries.
I agree. Besides, where was McCain when the Obama administration was ‘negotiating’ on the Iran deal? Are we to assume that the US was in agreement with Iran on their human rights policies, which paved the way for the administration to negotiate with them?
What is irritating is that John McCain has a lot of nerve preaching to someone -- anyone -- about the imperative of "values".
“U.S. national security and economic interests will sometimes override the demand for other countries to adhere to American values.”
I have no problem with that statement. If we were not doing that already, we would not be trading with the commies in China as they adhere to no American values starting with free exercise of religion or the right to keep and bear arms. Given the move to remove arms from the US public it is almost as if we are adhering to the values elsewhere.
When the progressives in their infinite wisdom passed the 17th Amendment
they provided no remedy to deal with rogue senators like McCain and Graham that do not represent their states.
Another hollow blast...
McCain will never retire.
He’s the best Democrat in an R jersey the Uniparty has.
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