Trunp's Geopilitical Adviser is Disgraced Former Head of DIA

[Magda Hassan]

Donald the Dangerous


Nicholas Kristof MARCH 5, 2016

IS there any scarier nightmare than President Donald J. Trump in a tense international crisis, indignant and impatient, with his sweaty finger on the nuclear trigger?
"Trump is a danger to our national security," John B. Bellinger III, legal adviser to the State Department under President George W. Bush, bluntly warned.

The usual crap from Kristof. What 'advice' was this so called 'legal adviser' Bellinger giving the idiot Bush when he was around throwing bombs all over the Middle East, Asia and Africa and invading peaceful countries?

Asked about Syria, Trump said last year that he would unleash ISIS to destroy Syria's government. That is insane: ISIS is already murdering or enslaving Christians, Yazidis and other religious minorities; executing gays; destroying antiquities; oppressing women. And Trump wants ISIS to capture Damascus?

Damn. Bush and Obama have already beaten Trump to it and unleashed ISIS on the world. And they would love to get some one new and pliable in Damascus too.

A second major concern is that Trump would start a trade war, or a real war. Trump told The New York Times in January that he favored a 45 percent tariff on Chinese goods, then denied ever having said such a thing. The Times produced the audio (that part of the conversation was on the record) in which Trump clearly backed the 45 percent tariff, risking a trade war between the world's two largest economies.

A trade war is a possibility. Let's watch the Chinese call in their debt. The lets see how the US businesses react to having a 40% tariff slapped on their Chinese made products. Will be fun.

There's something heartbreaking about the prospect that America's next commander in chief may be a global joke, a man regarded in most foreign capitals as a buffoon, and a dangerous one.

Did Kristof sleep through the Bush presidency?

Trump is not particularly ideological, and it's possible that as president he would surround himself with experts and would back off extreme positions. It was a good sign that on Friday he appeared to reverse himself and pledged that he would not order the U.S. military to commit war crimes, yet that's such an astonishingly low bar that I can't believe I just wrote this sentence!

Trump sounds positively enlightened then compared to what we have had for the last few decades.

In any case, Trump is nothing if not unpredictable, and it seems equally plausible that he would start new wars. It's a risk that few sensible people want to take.

This is the issue. He is not their idiot. He is certainly no more 'dangerous' than Obama or Bush or Clinton but he isn't (yet) owned by any of TPTB and the uncertainty is bad for their investments.

As Mitt Romney notes, "This is the very brand of anger that has led other nations into the abyss."
"Why, at a moment when the country desperately needs our A-team, would we send in the clowns?"

Is political discourse so bad in the US that they are taking seriously the advice of a man who believes in magic underpants? In any case the clowns have long been in the White House.