As I had written months earlier, HRC is the presidential candidate to set forth a more agressive foreign policy and to support our military allies in the Middle East. Israel is their favorite to fight wars of choice. Propaganda will cover-up the pretense and assure home media will support any military adventure.
Earlier letters by a similar group of signatories in opposing Trump and earlier in opposition to president Obama and his policy towards Israel and Iran on the nuclear pact.
○ GOP ex-national security officials: Say no to Trump – March 2016
○ Neocons Jumping Ship, Will Likely Vote for Hillary Clinton
○ Obama Turncoats: CNN Facilitates UANI Advocate Pro-Israel – June 2015
50 GOP national security experts oppose Trump | CNN |
Fifty prominent Republican foreign policy and national security experts — many veterans of George W. Bush’s administration — have signed a letter denouncing Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy and pledging not to vote for him.
The letter, first reported by The New York Times Monday, warns: “We are convinced that in the Oval Office, he would be the most reckless President in American history.”
Its signatories include former CIA and National Security Agency Director Michael Hayden, former Director of National Intelligence and Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte and Eric Edelman, who was Vice President Dick Cheney’s national security adviser and has worked closely with Michele Flournoy — a candidate for secretary of defense in a prospective Clinton administration — to forge a centrist group of defense experts on key military issues.
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US Congress House Intelligence Committee stands firmly behind implementation of enhanced interrogation or torture techniques (Credit: Jerusalem Post)It also includes two Homeland Security secretaries under Bush, Tom Ridge and Michael Chertoff, and Robert Zoellick, a former World Bank president, U.S. trade representative and deputy secretary of state.
The undersigned individuals have all served in senior national security and/or foreign policy positions in Republican Administrations, from Richard Nixon to George W. Bush. We have worked directly on national security issues with these Republican Presidents and/or their principal advisers during wartime and other periods of crisis, through successes and failures. We know the personal qualities required of a President of the United States.
None of us will vote for Donald Trump.
From a foreign policy perspective, Donald Trump is not qualified to be President and Commander-in-Chief. Indeed, we are convinced that he would be a dangerous President and would put at risk our country’s national security and well-being.
Most fundamentally, Mr. Trump lacks the character, values, and experience to be President. He weakens U.S. moral authority as the leader of the free world. He appears to lack basic knowledge about and belief in the U.S. Constitution, U.S. laws, and U.S. institutions, including religious tolerance, freedom of the press, and an independent judiciary.
In addition, Mr. Trump has demonstrated repeatedly that he has little understanding of America’s vital national interests, its complex diplomatic challenges, its indispensable alliances, and its democratic values on which U.S. foreign policy must be based. At the same time, he persistently compliments our adversaries and threatens our allies and friends.
Middle-East Events Turned Sour After 2006
Regime change in Iraq was never about dictator Saddam Hussein. Under Reagan and poppy Bush he was a useful idiot to fight the Mullahs of Iran with support from the medieval kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
After the first Gulf War, the UN sanctions put in place weighed heavily on the Iraqi population with unknown number of deaths as result. The Neocon agenda to back the State of Israel was clear what nations were next to face the wrath of regime change. The Libyan president Muamar Gaddafi got a reprieve under George Bush and Tony Blair to surrender oil contracts and depose of WMDs.
The secular Syrian president Assad was seen as a reformer by the EU, US and Israel. In the year 2010 Assad was visited by many representatives of Western democracies and Netanyahu was close to a peace deal over the Golan Heights.
However, the forces of the MIC and the neocon operatives in Washington DC, on the Hill, in US Congress and across Western funded think-tanks joined in to target Iran as the global power of terrorism. The overthrow of Saddam Hussein and Syrian president Assad should be seen as breaking Iran’s allies and Israel’s enemies, especially Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Just as the invasion and occupation of Iraq was a fool’s errand, so was the option of regime change in Libya and Syria. Stupidity reigned in foreign policy circles of the Atlantic Alliance.
My earlier diaries:
○ McCain In Jerusalem to Voice Opposition Kerry’s Peace Push
○ American Exceptionalism Good – Neocon Israel Policy Better
○ Will Trump’s Rise Leave Neocons Homeless?
