08-08-2016, 11:44 PM
(08-08-2016, 08:41 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: It seems a bunch of Republicans familiar with foreign policy agree with Obama that Trump is unfit to be president. CBS reports Republican foreign policy officials sign anti-Trump letter.
Dozens of former Republican national security officials Wrote:"None of us will vote for Donald Trump," the letter, which was published Monday by the New York Times, says. The authors then go on to characterize the billionaire as unfit for the Oval Office, saying he lacks the moral authority, judgement and foreign policy expertise.
"Unlike previous Presidents who had limited experience in foreign affairs, Mr. Trump has shown no interest in educating himself," the letter said. "He continues to display an alarming ignorance of basic facts of contemporary international politics."
CBS Wrote:The letter features the signatures of many former George W. Bush cabinet members and policy advisors, including former CIA and NSA director Michael Hayden, former intelligence chief John Negroponte and former Homeland Security secretary Tom Ridge.
There is a more cynical and less serious side of me that suggests that if a bunch of former Bush 43 officials agree on something to do with foreign policy, they must be wrong. Still, I think for once I can agree with these guys.
Even these guys have some limits.
Was Tom Ridge particularly bad?
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.