So Much for Keeping Out the War Hawks
November 12th, 2024Via: Reason:
So much for keeping out the war hawks. President-elect Donald Trump has reportedly chosen Rep. Mike Waltz (R–Fla.) to be his national security adviser and Sen. Marco Rubio (R–Fla.) to be his secretary of state. Rubio is a longtime regime change and war enthusiast, although he’s recently pivoted to Trump’s position that the war in Ukraine has to end diplomatically.
Waltz, on the other hand, doesn’t even have a pretense of wanting to stay out of wars. He’s been passionately in favor of escalating conflicts that Trump wants out of, including in Afghanistan and Ukraine. And he supports not only threatening to attack Iran but also militarily confronting Russia, which Waltz calls a “gas station with nukes.”
If last week was a bad time to be a member of the Cheney family, this week is shaping up to be a good one. After working as a Department of Defense policy planner for the Bush administration, Waltz served as former Vice President Dick Cheney’s counterterrorism adviser. And it shows.
Since I believe Dick Cheney had a high-level role in creating 9/11, and it was presented as a terrorist attack, then Waltz must have been among those who, at the very least, knew it was going to happen.
While I’m trying to have some tolerance for Trump appointing some rather right-wing types, this John Hegeseth guy really has me muttering, “Geez Louise”.
@Loveandlight Mike Adams (the Health Ranger) calls Hegseth “an end times Armageddon accelerationist sporting tattoos that invoke Bible scripture promising war, not peace. He’s also fully in support of Israel’s ongoing war crimes and ethnic cleansing, and he thinks we should bomb schools, universities and churches in Iran.”
Oh, yeah, and here’s genocidal Marco Rubio —
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtY3yf4v9aw