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2020-11-25 -Land of the Free

[Creators Syndicate] Dismissing President Donald Trump's claim that the 2020 election remains undecided, Joe Biden has begun to name his national security team.

Right now, it looks Democratic establishment all the way.

Antony Blinken, a longtime foreign policy aide, is Biden's choice for secretary of state. Jake Sullivan, one of Hillary Clinton's closest aides, is said to be his choice for national security adviser.

Biden's urgency in naming his foreign policy team is understandable.

For if his election is confirmed by the Electoral College, then he will find himself on Jan. 20 with a lineup of foreign policy crises.
Interesting, and depressing lineup of thorny problems, but I know your time is valuable, so here's the conclusion:
"America First" has an answer to these questions:

If there are no vital U.S. interests imperiled, keep U.S. troops out. And ashcan the utopian nonsense of trying to plant democracy in the sandy soil of a Middle East that has shown itself unreceptive to that particular crop.

The interventionalists got us into the sandbox. Let's see if they can get us out.

Posted by Bobby 2020-11-25 10:29|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top

#1 About Iran, it should be noted that their big plan for Israel — years in the preparation — was a pincer attack from Lebanon and Gaza while Hezbollah rained 150,000 missiles across the land from above. But Israel has located and destroyed the tunnels from both Gaza and Hezbollah‘s territory south of the Litani River, and mapped the coordinates of Hezbollah’s missile storage dumps, so the attack will have to come visibly over the fences while the targetted storage dumps will display very impressive secondaries — probably visible from orbit.

Posted by trailing wife 2020-11-25 10:50|| 2020-11-25 10:50|| Front Page Top

#2 "And we would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling ~~kids~~ Juices!"
-- Ayatollah Somethingorother.

Posted by SteveS 2020-11-25 11:39|| 2020-11-25 11:39|| Front Page Top

#3 So what happens if the Republicans keep the Senate, and refuses to accept ANY of Biden's nominations for Cabinet posts?

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2020-11-25 11:56|| 2020-11-25 11:56|| Front Page Top

#4 refuses to accept ANY of Biden's nominations for Cabinet posts?

The same thing that President Trump did in the same situation: put his people in place temporarily. There is a time limit they can hold the office without confirmation and they don’t get put on the pension plan, I believe. But they can hire and fire, and establish policy, though their successor can reverse both with a pen stroke.

Posted by trailing wife 2020-11-25 12:04|| 2020-11-25 12:04|| Front Page Top

#5 Perhaps the current Congress could cut the pay of the next President to whatever the minimum required in the Constitution, before he takes office.

Posted by Grampaw Phavish2227 2020-11-25 18:35|| 2020-11-25 18:35|| Front Page Top

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