All the President’s Neocons

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-23 20:48:51 | Updated at 2024-11-23 23:53:47 3 hours ago

All the President’s Neocons
Chornicles ^ | November 2024 | Srdja Trifkovic

Posted on 11/23/2024 12:44:45 PM PST by Angelino97

Sen. Marco Rubio will succeed Antony Blinken as secretary of State. Rubio has spent most of his political career promoting neoconservative orthodoxy and advocating U.S. military interventions abroad. Until his supposed MAGA conversion two years ago he had never seen a war he did not like and praised George W. Bush’s Iraq disaster as late as 2016... Rubio reportedly was close to the late billionaire Sheldon Adelson and other big neocon donors, and has supported illegal settlement building in the West Bank as well as suggesting that the U.S. may have to go to war with Iran over its nuclear program.

Rubio is the embodiment of the GOP establishment wing. When running for the Republican nomination against Trump in 2026, he said that American power must be “motivated by a desire to expand freedom, rather than simply expand its own territory … While America did not intend to become the world’s indispensable power, that is exactly what our economic and political freedoms have made us … The free nations of the world still look to America to champion our shared ideals.”

Rep. Michael Waltz will be Trump’s national security advisor, former Fox News presenter Pete Hegseth will be secretary of Defense, and Rep. Elise Stefanik will be UN Ambassador. I will not bore you with their belligerent quotes, dozens of them, on any issue of import over the past decade. Suffice to say that, until very recently, none of them had ever seen a war they did not like. Stefanik in particular is a piece of work. She once worked for the arch neocon Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, and (worse still) for Bill Kristol’s Foreign Policy Initiative...

“You are hearing a sigh of relief from America’s allies abroad,” Alyssa Farrah Griffin was quoted as saying by Newsweek.

(Excerpt) Read more at chroniclesmagazine.org ...

TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: nonsense

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1 posted on 11/23/2024 12:44:45 PM PST by Angelino97

To: Angelino97

I don’t see these folks as “neocons” (whatever that may mean to the writer) as pro=American people who will try to repair some of the damage the last 4 years have inflicted on us.

I’m very confortable and indeed even hopeful to see how much this new administration of (obviously very capable people) can do towards repairing America’s moral leadership, our economy, and yes our defenses and genuine alliances. Most of all our moral leadership, which was most regrettably directed into the sewer under the DemoNaziCommie regime.

2 posted on 11/23/2024 12:48:33 PM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))

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