Ka-pow! Trump adviser makes Hillary eat her words
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Hillary Clinton is learning the same lesson 17 former GOP presidential candidates learned the hard way before her.
When you attack Donald Trump, you'd better be prepared to get slammed ... hard.
When you attack Donald Trump, you'd better be prepared to get slammed ... hard.
And if you're foolish enough to attack him on something that is your own greatest weakness, expect no mercy ...
Greg Corombos @WND
GOP presumptive nominee Donald Trump and Democrat front-runner Hillary Clinton
A
high-level foreign policy adviser for presumptive Republican
presidential nominee Donald Trump says Hillary Clinton is wrong to
assert that Trump is unqualified to be commander in chief or lacks the
the temperament for the job, and he says Clinton’s record as secretary
of state should be the most worrisome foreign policy consideration in
this campaign.
Dr.
Walid Phares is a longtime terrorism expert and professor of Middle
East studies. He is also an accomplished author. He role as a foreign
policy adviser for Trump was made public in recent weeks.
Clinton delivered a blistering attack against Trump’s foreign policy statements in her speech on Thursday, while also alleging her likely general election opponent lacks the character for the job.
“Like
many across the country and around the world, I believe the person the
Republicans have nominated for president cannot do the job,” Clinton
said.
Phares
said there’s no doubt Clinton knows more people on the international
stage and has more experience dealing with vital issues, but he told WND
and Radio America her track record is one of failure.
“Once
given all this power and all this ability to receive information, what
did she do?” Phares asked. “Look at Libya in flames, Syria in flames,
Iraq exploding, the Iran deal not working, ISIS not dismantled. The
plans are not working. Of course, the reset button that she brought to
Moscow led to major crisis with Russia in Ukraine, in Crimea, let alone
the rise of jihadi homegrown cells around the world.
“So
if you base your judgment on how she strategically positioned herself,
at least in the region let alone other regions in terms of North Korea
or Russia, then we think it would be much better to have another
candidate become president of the United States,” Phares said.
Aside
from alleging Trump doesn’t understand the the nuances of foreign
policy, Clinton also said the GOP standard bearer lacks the temperament
for the job, even suggesting Trump could start a war over an insult.
Phares
rejects the notion that Trump’s temperament disqualifies him from the
job on two fronts. First, he calls it “naive” to judge someone’s
temperament for the job based on what is said in the heat of the
campaign. Second, he said Trump’s career proves he does have the
gravitas for the job.
“Because
he has been a person who has been in the center of a network for over
20 years – true, it’s not a political network, but it’s an international
business network – meeting with politicians, meeting with
decision-makers, he has the actual temperament to become the president
of the United States,” Phares said..
Among
other criticisms, Clinton also attacked Trump for not having any
concrete policy ideas on some of the th******* foreign-policy issues in
the world.
“Donald
Trump’s ideas aren’t just different. They are dangerously incoherent,”
Clinton said. “They’re not even really ideas, just a series of bizarre
rants, personal feuds and outright lies.”
Phares
said the true test of leadership is what people do once they’re faced
with the relevant information. On that front, he said Trump is clearly
stronger than Clinton.
“If
Mr. Trump were given the same information about Libya, that Ansar
Al-Sharia and other groups that we were arming and training were
actually jihadists, would he have accepted that the U.S. arm them and
train them? Would he have accepted the policy we had on Libya? Would he
have accepted that those weapons would be traveling to Syria and later
on create the context for ISIS? No,” Phares said.
He wasn’t done.
“Would
he have accepted, with the same information given to him by the
negotiators or the intelligence community, that a deal would be cut with
the Iranian ayatollahs and $150 billion would be sent to them? Of
course not,” Phares said.
“It’s
about your judgment when you are dealing with a strategic
organization,” he said. “She had her strategic organization at the State
Department. He had a strategic organization with multinational
companies. We saw that the results were very different.”
Phares
said Trump is already receiving briefings from retired military
officers and former intelligence personnel. His formal national security
briefings will begin after he becomes the Republican nominee next
month.
But Phares said Trump’s approach to complex issues as he studies them is encouraging to him.
“He
is very inquisitive. He will ask many, many questions,” Phares said.
“There are two types of questions that are important that many people
who met with him over the many years and months with regard to these
international issues (point out). Not just many questions. He always
asks the downside of a solution and the alternative to this solution,
which tells me that’s how a decision-maker should behave.”
Laura J Alcorn
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