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    Default Meet your new Secretary of State



    Not bad. First test passed.
    " First they came for the journalists...
    We don't know what happened after that . "

    Maria Ressa.

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    Ooooops ;


    https://electronicintifada.net/blogs...-blinken-fails


    Blinken and Biden both supported the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, perhaps the most catastrophic policy decision since the US war on Vietnam.

    The New York Times – whose bogus reporting on “weapons of mass destruction” paved the way for the Iraq war – is describing Blinken as “a centrist with a streak of interventionism.” That perfectly encapsulates the kind of respectable Ivy League warmongering that passes for foreign policy “expertise” in Washington.

    Blinken has been involved in other disasters: He supported the 2011 US war on Libya, which through (as usual) a series of unanticipated consequences turned the country into a failed state with open slave markets.

    He then played a key role in pushing the Obama administration to arm rebel groups in Syria as part of an effort to bring about regime change, fueling a proxy war that displaced millions of people.

    Many of those US-supplied weapons ended up in the hands of al-Qaida.
    " First they came for the journalists...
    We don't know what happened after that . "

    Maria Ressa.

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    Blinken has been involved in other disasters: He supported the 2011 US war on Libya, which through (as usual) a series of unanticipated consequences turned the country into a failed state with open slave markets.

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    top progressive diplomat with a series of disasters to his credit

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    Quote Originally Posted by anatta View Post
    Blinken has been involved in other disasters: He supported the 2011 US war on Libya, which through (as usual) a series of unanticipated consequences turned the country into a failed state with open slave markets.
    you are a liar

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    Quote Originally Posted by katzgar View Post
    you are a liar
    HA HA HA /dumb ass

    https://inthesetimes.com/article/joe...n-avril-haines
    Biden’s incoming team helped shape some of the most militaristic policies of the Obama administration.
    Blinken was a top aide to Biden when the then-Sen*a*tor vot*ed to autho*rize the U.S. inva*sion of Iraq, and Blinken helped Biden devel*op a pro*pos*al to par*ti*tion Iraq into three sep*a*rate regions based on eth*nic and sec*tar*i*an iden*ti*ty. As deputy nation*al security adviser, Blinken sup*port*ed the dis*as*trous mil*i*tary inter*ven*tion in Libya in 2011, and in 2018 he helped launch WestExec Advi*sors, a ​“strate*gic advi*so*ry firm” that is secre*tive about its clients, along with oth*er Oba*ma admin*is*tra*tion alum*ni like Michèle Flournoy. Jonathan Guy*er writes in The Amer*i*can Prospect, ​“I learned that Blinken and Flournoy used their net*works to build a large client base at the inter*sec*tion of tech and defense.

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    the dude is a one man Military Industrial Complex by himself

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    there is Lin*da Thomas-Green*field, tapped to serve as Unit*ed Nations Ambas*sador. Thomas-Green*field lists her most recent employ*ment Albright Stone*bridge Group, a secre*tive ​“glob*al strat*e*gy firm” some*what sim*i*lar to McK*in*sey & Com*pa*ny, and chaired by Madeleine Albright .
    Albright Stone*bridge Group is a black box: It’s near impos*si*ble to get any info about who its clients are. The firm claims that it does not lob*by the U.S. gov*ern*ment or do work that is cov*ered by the For*eign Agents Reg*is*tra*tion Act, but many of its staffers dou*ble in roles that cer*tain*ly do exert influ*ence, or have past.
    The firm’s UAE office is head*ed by Jad Mneym*neh, who pre*vi*ous*ly was in the Crown Prince Court of Abu Dhabi’s Office of Strate*gic Affairs.

    There is noth*ing remark*able about Biden appoint*ing some*one who hails from a shad*owy glob*al strat*e*gy firm for a pow*er*ful role, but that is pre*cise*ly the prob*lem.

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    Quote Originally Posted by moon View Post
    Donald Trump supported the Iraq war.

    2002 interview with shock jock Howard Stern. Stern asked Trump if he supported the looming invasion.
    Trump responded, "Yeah, I guess so."


    Of course Trumplicans are so accustomed to Trumps lies that when he tells them he didn't say that when he did, they believe him.

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    Quote Originally Posted by moon View Post
    Not thrilled with the pick, but I’ll see how it goes...

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    Albright Stonebridge Group is a black box:
    Madeline Albright of the infamous "responsibility to protect" doctrine used to bomb Libya.
    Far exceeding scope the UN 1973 Resolution to establish a "no fly"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Phantasmal View Post
    Not thrilled with the pick, but I’ll see how it goes...
    Yes. Surely- the ability to learn from ones mistakes is a desirable qualification.

    I'd rather he played the oud.



    Haw, haw.................haw.
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