President Trump’s Foreign Policy Fiasco
The American Spectator,
by
Paul Kengor
Original Article
Posted By: Periwinkel,
8/20/2019 1:06:58 PM
A major loss has occurred in the Trump administration, one that undermines the hard work to conceive and implement a literal “Trump Doctrine” in foreign policy, and it appears that President Trump is unaware of what fully happened or what’s at stake. He didn’t initiate the change. This action was taken by a group under Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, a coup by insiders. It’s an abrupt step that has shocked foreign-policy voices as diverse as Condoleezza Rice and George Shultz and Henry Kissinger and Newt Gingrich.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
aasilver 8/20/2019 1:22:06 PM (No. 157357)
The Spectator is a virulent Anti-Trump group of intellectual snobs. If they are for it - I am against it. If they thought the sun rose and set over Kiron Skinner (I never heard of her) - good riddance.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
spacer 8/20/2019 1:35:43 PM (No. 157374)
I have heard of her. I've heard her speak. She is in fact a Trump ally and had been pressing Trump foreign policies from her position, against entrenched ANTI Trumpers at State.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Safari Man 8/20/2019 1:48:42 PM (No. 157378)
way too much hyperbole in the intro to be taken seriously.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Cindiana 8/20/2019 2:23:09 PM (No. 157393)
There may well be merit to this srticle, but the intro is so overwritten I don't want to go any further. Sounds like the beginning of a 500-page spy novel.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
davew 8/20/2019 2:39:08 PM (No. 157410)
I'm not sure from the article who actually "fired" her and what the details were that led to the decision. I'm not getting the whole story here and that doesn't smell right. Did anyone bring her plight to President Trump or his staff's attention? Did Mike Pompeo sign off on this? The basic 4 principles described in the article seem to be what Trump has been implementing as his policy all along and I don't see that changing anytime soon.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
earlybird 8/20/2019 2:49:25 PM (No. 157417)
I have been a fan of Kiron Skinner. She was a very learned, very real and solid voice for Donald J. Trump the candidate when others were giving him a lot of flak. But it would take more than the named persons to make me believe there wasn’t a good reason for her leaving. And the Spectaor and Kengor have never supported Trump.
I have read the article. Never a fan of Kengor, who has a very exalted opinion of himself. He makes some interesting point. He also defends her by bringing out her globalist bent which may not have been as attractive to PDJT as Kengor assumes. He believes NeverTrumpers did her in, while admitting he has been pretty much a NeverTrumper himself.
Give it a read and see what he has to say about the “big things” she had planned. They may not have been what both Pompeo and PDJT have in mind.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
earlybird 8/20/2019 2:51:03 PM (No. 157419)
PS. Don’t let your ignorance of Kiron Skinner to get in the way. She was a very strong, solid advocate of PDJT and his policies. But it may be that her policy plans were a bridge too far?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Geoman 8/20/2019 2:52:40 PM (No. 157422)
FTA: "...the coup orchestrated against Skinner was not carried out by the so-called Deep State, or by plotting Democrats, but by Never Trumpers. The intriguers are political appointees, GOP establishment and bipartisan elites, with a very low view of Donald Trump. They are Republican neocons, liberal on social policy, and committed not to the Trump view of the world but to the George W. Bush view. They would likely pursue the more costly Bush security agenda that Trump vehemently rejects. Mike Pompeo is now surrounded by them."
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 8/20/2019 3:45:37 PM (No. 157449)
Article was long and said very little. Somebody was fired. Doesn't clarify why or who caused it.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
virbots 8/20/2019 4:37:10 PM (No. 157481)
The defense of her has to do with her being scholarly. Don't think anyone was disputing that. She was fired for being an abusive manager. And firing someone is not "a coup".
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
earlybird 8/20/2019 8:00:17 PM (No. 157547)
And “abusive” these days is in the eyes of the Liberal, as a rule. Snowflakes always find “abuse” of some kind or other. Did she abuse white people? The usual narrative doesn’t fit as she is a very classy black woman.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Strike3 8/20/2019 11:28:56 PM (No. 157651)
I don't know anything about Skinner but the writer sounds like a pompous ass even though he has conservative credentials. It sounds like the main part of the story is missing. This is still the Obama State Department so anything is possible.
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Since I've never heard of Kiron Skinner, I guess I have to judge her by her allies. I am a big fan of Mike Pompeo so if he thinks she should go, I'd have to agree.