A NEO-CON REVOLT?
A PUTIN GROUND INVASION?
A RADICAL ISLAM SUPER-GROUP?
THE NATIONAL SECURITY HEAT IS RISING…
NATIONAL SECURITY ANALYST: Dr. Sean McFate, served as a paratrooper in the US Army’s 82nd Airborne Division and is an Associate Professor at the National Defense University, a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council and an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. His newest novel, SHADOW WAR: A TOM LOCKE NOVEL is available now.
“Fifty prominent Republican foreign policy and national security experts — many veterans of George W. Bush’s administration — have signed a letter denouncing Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy and pledging not to vote for him.
The letter, first reported by The New York Times Monday, warns: “We are convinced that in the Oval Office, he would be the most reckless President in American history.”
Its signatories include former CIA and National Security Agency Director Michael Hayden, former Director of National Intelligence and Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte and Eric Edelman, who was Vice President Dick Cheney’s national security adviser and has worked closely with Michele Flournoy — a candidate for secretary of defense in a prospective Clinton administration — to forge a centrist group of defense experts on key military issues.
It also includes two Homeland Security secretaries under Bush, Tom Ridge and Michael Chertoff, and Robert Zoellick, a former World Bank president, U.S. trade representative and deputy secretary of state.
Trump’s campaign responded with a statement from Trump denouncing the signatories as people who deserve the “blame for making the world such a dangerous place.”
Many of the same leaders wrote an open letter in March during the Republican primaries condemning Trump and pledging to oppose his candidacy, at a time when other GOP candidates remained in the race.
The letter acknowledges that many Americans “have doubts about Hillary Clinton, as do many of us.”
“But Donald Trump is not the answer to America’s daunting challenges and to this crucial election,” it says.”
READ: cnn.com/2016/08/08/politics/republican-national-security-letter-donald-trump-election-2016/
READ: dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3730312/Putin-s-tanks-spark-fears-European-invasion-giant-convoy-spotted-massing-Ukrainian-border.html
READ: foxnews.com/world/2016/08/09/islamic-state-taliban-form-alliance-in-afghanistan-to-focus-on-us-backed-forces.html
PLUG BOOK: amazon.com/Shadow-War-Tom-Locke-Novel/dp/0062403702/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1464239470&sr=8-1&keywords=SHADOW+WAR
BIO: McFate served as a paratrooper in the US Army’s 82nd Airborne Division and then worked for a major private military corporation, where he ran operations similar to those in this book. He is the author of The Modern Mercenary: Private Armies and What They Mean for World Order, and holds a BA from Brown University, a MA from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and a PhD in international relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He lives with his wife in Washington, DC.
WEBSITE: seanmcfate.com
TWITTER: @seanmcfate
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