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  Scapegoating John Bolton
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Arnold Ahlert 
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Trump names hostage envoy Robert O'Brien as national security adviser, replacing Bolton
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By Brooke Singman 
{ foxnews.com } ~ President Trump on Wednesday named the State Department's hostage envoy Robert C. O’Brien as his fourth national security adviser, replacing John Bolton, who was ousted from the administration last week... “I am pleased to announce that I will name Robert C. O’Brien, currently serving as the very successful Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs at the State Department, as our new National Security Advisor. I have worked long & hard with Robert. He will do a great job!” Trump tweeted Wednesday morning.Trump's appointment is not subject to Senate confirmation. O’Brien joined the administration in May 2018 and serves as the Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs at the State Department. O’Brien, who served under Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, led the U.S. government’s diplomatic efforts on overseas hostage-related matters, working closely with families of American hostages, as well as working with the administration on developing and implementing hostage recovery policy and strategy. Most recently, O’Brien was involved in the high-profile arrest of American rapper A$AP Rocky. Over the summer, O’Brien traveled to Sweden to monitor court proceedings after the rapper pleaded not guilty to assault after a street fight that landed him in jail in Stockholm. He was released in August. O’Brien also served during the scumbag/liar-nObama administration as co-chairman of the State Department’s public-private partnership for Justice Reform in Afghanistan. O'Brien will be the president's fourth national security adviser. O’Brien’s appointment comes just days after Trump announced that he had fired Bolton—whom O’Brien worked with in 2005 when he served as U.S. Representative at the United Nations during former President George W. Bush’s administration...   https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-names-state-department-envoy-robert-obrien-new-national-security-adviser
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Saudi oil attacks an 'act of war' by Iran, 
not Yemen rebels, Pompeo claims
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By Barnini Chakraborty 
{ foxnews.com } ~ U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday doubled down on accusations Iran is responsible for the weekend bombing on Saudi Arabia’s oil facilities... telling reporters that the strike was “an act of war.” Pompeo, speaking from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, added that even if the "fraudulent claims" of responsibility by the Yemen Houthi rebels were true, "it doesn't change the fingerprints of the Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as having put at risk the global energy supply." His comments come hours after President Trump tweeted that he had ordered Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to “substantially increase sanctions” on Iran, amid escalating tensions between the two countries. Earlier this week, Trump said it was "looking like" Iran was responsible for the bombing but did not publically accuse Tehran of the attack. “Well, it’s looking that way,” the president told reporters at the White House on Monday when asked if Iran was responsible. “We’ll let you know definitively.” He added: “That’s being checked out right now.” Iran, who has repeatedly denied involvement in the bombings, warned Wednesday that it would "immediately" retaliate against the United States if Tehran is targeted over a crippling weekend attack on Saudi oil facilities. The threat, which was sent via the Swiss Embassy in Tehran, also condemned previous remarks made by Secretary Pompeo and other high-ranking U.S. officials suggesting Iran was behind the move. “Iran’s response will be prompt and strong, and it may include broader areas than the source of attacks,” Iran’s Mehr News Agency reported. Tehran’s Fars News Agency added that any response would be “rapid and crushing.” Meanwhile, Saudi officials alleged on Wednesday that Iranian cruise missiles and drones were behind the attack on Sunday, showing journalists remains of the weapons. However, they stopped short of directly accusing Iran of launching the assault. Saudi military spokesman Col. Turki al-Malki said the attack "came from the north," without saying specifically where it originated. Iraq and Iran are to the north of Saudi Arabia across the Persian Gulf...
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Lewandowski Slams scumbag/liar-Hillary
During Impeachment Hearing:
I Didn’t Delete My Emails
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by Shelby Talcott
{dailycallernewsfoundation.org} ~ Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski slammed former Secretary of State scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton during Tuesday’s hearing on a congressional impeachment inquiry, noting that he didn’t delete his emails... Lewandowski testified before the House Judiciary Committee Tuesday regarding an impeachment inquiry about President Donald Trump’s potential obstruction of justice. The White House ordered him not to speak about any conversation with the president or senior presidential advisers that were not mentioned in former special counsel Robert Mueller’s report, according to White House counsel Pat Cipollone. “I also received hundreds of thousands of emails, some days with as many as a thousand emails,” Lewandowski told lawmakers. “And unlike scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton, I don’t think I ever deleted any of those.” “Regardless, as the special counsel determined, there was no conspiracy or collusion between the Trump campaign and foreign government either on my watch or afterwards,” Lewandowski said, adding: “In conclusion, and it’s sad to say, this country has spent over three years and 40 million taxpayer dollars on these investigations, and it’s now clear that the investigation was populated by many Trump haters who had their own agenda — to take down a duly elected president of the United States.” scumbag/liar-Clinton set up a private email server in her New York home while she was the secretary of state. The FBI found that she was “extremely careless” but did not recommend charges. “Several thousand” work-related emails weren’t turned over to the State Department and were deleted, although the FBI concluded this was not done “in an effort to conceal them,” BBC reported in 2016. “What there has been, however, is harassment of the this president since the day he won the election,” Lewandowski continued. “We as a nation would be better suited to face our efforts to true crises in our country instead of going down rabbit holes like this hearing.”...  http://dailycallernewsfoundation.org/2019/09/17/lewandowski-slams-hillary-during-impeachment-hearing-i-didnt-delete-my-emails/
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Who Should Defend Saudi Arabia’s 
Oil Interests From Iran?
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by JOSEPH P. DUGGAN
{ spectator.org } ~ A few days ago, more than 50 percent of the crude oil supply capability of the world’s largest oil exporter — also the top energy supplier of a certain major industrial nation — was attacked and taken offline... The likely perpetrator is an outlaw state already under economic sanctions imposed by the civilized world. Is it time for this great industrial nation to wage a military attack on the presumed culprit? Before assuming this question applies to the United States, let’s realize that the United States does not depend any longer on any foreign country for its oil supplies. Because of the complexity of global economics, it is still useful for the United States to import large quantities of crude oil — including some imports from Saudi Arabia — but today the U.S. exports much more crude oil than it imports. A few years ago, a huge component of the U.S. trade deficit was from importation of oil. Today, exports of oil from the U.S. actually mitigate our overall trade deficit. The attack on Saudi Arabia’s oil supply facilities, probably traceable to Iran, was not a direct attack on supplies vital to the United States. Both Japan and South Korea have no domestic oil production. Each of these countries is wholly dependent on imports for oil-based energy. Saudi Arabia is the top supplier of oil to each of these countries. To state it starkly, the economies of Japan and South Korea would grind to a halt without oil from Saudi Arabia. The attacks in Saudi Arabia have harmed Japanese and South Korean security and economic well-being much more seriously than they have harmed the United States. Is the Japanese foreign minister or his South Korean counterpart urgently consulting with the Saudis about a military retaliation against Iran? Apparently not. China has its own domestic oil production, but the Chinese economy requires huge imports of oil to meet demand. Its top supplier is Saudi Arabia, and China conversely is Saudi Arabia’s largest oil customer. The Chinese economy has sustained much more damage through the attacks in Saudi Arabia than has the United States. Still, China is not contemplating a military strike against Iran...
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Cory Lewandowski Puts Sheila Jackson Lee 
In Her Place During ‘Impeachment’ Hearing
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By Steve Straub 
{ thefederalistpapers.org } ~ During an “impeachment” hearing today in front of the House Judiciary Committee former Trump aide Cory Lewandowski put Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee in her place... JACKSON LEE: “… whether the president told you he called his counsel at home on Saturday to remove on a Saturday the special counsel and his counsel said no. The president called sessions at home and asked him to unrecuse himself and oversee the special counsel’s investigation and sessions said no. When the president asked you to deliver his message to sessions, did the president tell you that sessions had already said no, volume 2, page 107?”  LEWANDOWSKI: “Again, I recognize that the privilege is not mine, but I’ve been asked — I’d be happy to answer your question, or you can have a conversation by yourself.” JACKSON LEE: “I’m going to continue. The reason —“LEWANDOWSKI: “Don’t ask me a question —“JACKSON LEE: “This is a House Judiciary not a house party.” LEWANDOWSKI: “If you ask me a question, give me an opportunity to answer the question.”...
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Scapegoating John Bolton
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Arnold Ahlert:  “It’s a major personnel change, but it’s more than that — it’s great news for America! Especially for the large number of young people who would have been killed in pointless wars if [John] Bolton had stayed on the job. They may not be celebrating tonight, but they should be.” —Fox News Host Tucker Carlson, commenting on the ouster of National Security Advisor John Bolton

“You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.” ―Bolshevik revolutionary Leon Trotsky

Last Wednesday, America once again commemorated the most devastating domestic attack in the history of the nation. Eighteen years ago, while the rubble was still smoldering where the World Trade Center once stood, Americans learned that a then-largely unknown terrorist group called al-Qaida, led by a man named Osama bin Laden, was responsible. They also earned that the government of Afghanistan, run by Islamist extremists called the Taliban, had allowed al-Qaida to use their country as a staging ground for the attack.

Only hours before the attack, former President scumbag/liar-Bill Clinton spoke at a business meeting in Melbourne, Australia, addressing his administration’s approach toward bin Laden. “I spent a lot of time thinking about him. And I nearly got him once,” scumbag/liar-Clinton said. “I nearly got him. And I could have killed him, but I would have had to destroy a little town called Kandahar in Afghanistan and kill 300 innocent women and children, and then I would have been no better than him. And so I didn’t do it.”

scumbag/liar-Clinton made it sound like the opportunity to capture the terrorist mastermind was a one-off. It wasn’t. “President scumbag/liar-Clinton and his national security team ignored several opportunities to capture Osama bin Laden and his terrorist associates, including one as late as last year,” wrote Council on Foreign Relations member Mansoor Ijaz on Dec. 5, 2001. “I know because I negotiated more than one of the opportunities.”

Subsequently, scumbag/liar-Clinton’s stance became known as the “law enforcement” approach to terrorism. It was embraced by Barack scumbag/liar-nObama and his administration, which engendered the contemptible reality that 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will finally be tried on Jan. 11, 2021. In 2008, the scumbag/liar-nObama administration rejected his willingness to plead guilty before a military commission because of their “ideological insistence on treating terrorists like common criminals and trying them in federal courts,” as columnist Marc Theissen explained in 2010.

Politics was also part of the equation. Mohammed had been “waterboarded,” which was subsequently defined as “torture” when it became expedient to do so — even though it was once part of the Navy’s Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape (S.E.R.E.) training program. Yet many of the same Democrats and media personalities who condemned the “barbaric practice” to bash the Bush administration’s approach to terror abided the scumbag/liar-nObama administration’s summary  execution of American citizen Anwar al-Awlaki with a drone strike on Sept. 30, 2011. In fact, scumbag/liar-nObama bragged about it, calling it a “major blow to al-Qaida’s most active operational affiliate.”

The U.S. military quickly ousted the Taliban government and al-Qaida in what was often referred to by the Left as the “good war,” for no other reason than to contrast it against the “bad war” that subsequently occurred in Iraq. That would be the Iraq war overwhelmingly authorized by both Houses of Congress in December 2002, including “yea” votes from loose lips liar-Joe Biden, scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton, hanoi-John Kerry, and John Edwards. One month earlier, President George W. Bush won a unanimous vote from the UN Security Council for  Resolution 1441, stating Iraq was in material breach of ceasefire terms related to WMDs, prohibited missiles and the purchase of prohibited arms. All of the attention directed at Saddam Hussein was based on the assessments of British and American intel that Hussein either had, or was in the process of developing, WMDs.  So soon after 9/11, the thought of a brutal dictator possessing nukes — nukes he could give to terrorist groups to which his nation provided support — was untenable.

Thus a multinational coalition force invaded Iraq on March 19, 2003, and ousted Saddam Hussein’s government in just three weeks. While most media to this day insist no WMDs were found, 550 metric tons of “yellowcake,” a component of higher-grade nuclear enrichment, was airlifted from Iraq to Canada in 2008.

During the 2004 presidential primaries, anti-war activist Howard Dean initially vaulted into the lead. Shortly thereafter, candidates hanoi-John Kerry and John Edwards “discovered” they were against the war they initially voted for. “Bush lied, people died” — a throughly discredited lie in and of itself — became the vehicle the Left used to ignite war weariness among Americans.

In reality that weariness was almost wholly engendered by the endless, expensive, and thoroughly discredited effort to “nation build” in both Iraq and Afghanistan, long after our military objectives were achieved.

That people like Tucker Carlson, and several others on the Left and Right, conflate nation building with wars fought for national security is utterly preposterous.

That kind of war weariness is a luxury, one apparently borne of the belief that if the U.S. simply minds its own business, millions of Islamic extremists, Chinese Communists, Iranian mullahs, and other bad actors in the world will follow suit. Yet as the scumbag/liar-Clinton era reminds us, treating terrorists as a law-enforcement problem didn’t stop the Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia, the U.S. Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, the bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen, or the initial attempt to destroy the Word Trade Center.

Where Carlson and others rightfully gain traction is with the political cowardice that has put men and women in harm’s way absent the desire to achieve unambiguous victory. It has been that way since Vietnam, and has been epitomized by such despicable concepts as the Rules of Engagement, the “winning hearts and minds” strategy that consisted of unarmed coalition troops cohabiting with armed Afghan trainees in order to “build trust,” a maniacal obsession with preventing civilian casualties even if it endangers American troops in the process, and scheduled troop withdrawals. What about breaking the enemy’s will, which is the ultimate prerequisite for achieving victory and discouraging future conflicts?

Missing in Action.

It’s easy to blame people like John Bolton and others for a hawkish approach to world affairs, but where would blame be directed if America endured another domestic attack as bad — or far worse — than 9/11? Can Carlson, et al, completely assure Americans that Iran’s ruling regime, which leads chants “death to America” on an annual basis, or Chinese Communists, who steal our intellectual property with abandon even as they amplify their military adventurism with equal fervor, are simply misunderstood characters needing only a congenial word or gesture to abandon decades of contemptible behavior?

Absent the poison of political correctness that embraces the blame game, the finger-pointing — and 20/20 hindsight most of all — it is worth remembering that Trotsky’s quote remains as relevant as ever. And while men like John Bolton may be too reflexive regarding the use of force, reflexive avoidance of its use could be immensely catastrophic.

America should look for every opportunity to avoid conflict, but it should never do so at the expense of national security.

If war is inevitable? Victory should be just as inevitable — political correctness be damned.   ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/65478?mailing_id=4532&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4532&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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