As White House cabinet officials, aides and staff rapidly come and go, today comes Mike Pompeo. The CIA chief nominated to replace the recently departed Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, delivers a close presidential relationship and promises “not to play games at the negotiating table”
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Another Missile Test, Another Ratchet Up
Deterrence in nuclear capabilities? North Korea’s gamble, and the world’s gamble, is that their offensive force will deter devastation in the vein of the first war in North Korea, when the US air campaign of General LeMay leveled nearly every building. Today’s NK ‘gamble’, ratcheting up, is in no country’s interest
Another Point of View: Clinton’s “Major” Foreign Policy Speech
One has to ask after watching this week’s foreign policy speech from candidate Clinton, billed as a “major” policy presentation, where were the foreign policies and national security positions? The speech was an unrelenting attack on candidate Trump, yes, but Clinton tough talk and a ‘new neo-con’ confrontational foreign policy remains a major issue
HRC as President: Why Do Neoconservatives Support Hillary?
As the US presidential campaign turns toward a one-to-one endgame between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, numerous neoconservatives within the interventionist wing of Republican foreign policy turn to supporting a Democrat