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| Why It's Good News That McMaster Is Out and Bolton Is In |
| 2018-03-30 |
| h/t Instapundit The Left is in hysterics over John Bolton replacing H.R. McMaster as President Trump’s national security adviser: He will start a war with Iran! He once wrote a foreword for a book written by Pamela Geller and me! He is a right-wing extremist! Back in the real world, however, Bolton replacing McMaster is a victory for realistic analysis of the jihad threat, and a defeat for the fantasy-based policymaking that has prevailed throughout the Bush and Obama eras, and beyond. McMaster has insisted: "The Islamic State is not Islamic." ...In February 2017, according to CNN, "at an all-hands meeting of the National Security Council," McMaster "said jihadist terrorists aren’t true to their professed religion and that the use of the phrase ’radical Islamic terrorism’ doesn’t help the U.S. in working with allies to defeat terrorist groups." ...McMaster’s pollyannish views were a holdover from the Obama regime, which established fantasies about Islam having nothing to do with terrorism as the official policy of the U.S. government. This was in contrast to President Trump, who repeatedly criticized his predecessor (and his 2016 election opponent) for not being willing to call the problem of jihad terror by its right name. ...You cannot defeat an enemy that you don’t understand, much less refuse to understand. We can only hope that this change will lead to a more realistic appraisal of the jihad threat. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #2 The boss not buying the foot dragging on the Iranian deal. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-03-30 18:38 |
| #1 I think it's telling when the WH changes party hands, but all the personnel remain the same. That's a pretty good indication that they view each other as opponents at all. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2018-03-30 16:46 |