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Home Front: Politix
Lindsey Graham: Trump 'doesn't know anything about' foreign policy
2016-11-14
[BUSINESSINSIDER] Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham
... the endangered South Carolina RINO...
, a vocal critic of Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
throughout the election cycle, slammed the president-elect's views on foreign policy in a wide-ranging interview with Business Insider last week.

He called Trump a "fool" when it comes to Russia, said the billionaire businessman has "zero idea" about how to defeat the terrorist group ISIS (also known as the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
or ISIS), called his views on the NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
alliance "dangerous," and said Trump "doesn't know anything" about foreign policy writ large.

"To put 'Donald Trump' and 'foreign policy' in the same sentence is a stretch," Graham said. "This is not his area. He doesn't know anything about it. He doesn't seem to be curious."
Barack Obama claimed foreign policy expertise based in spending a few years of his childhood in Indonesia and a winter break with his roommate's family in Pakistan. Donald Trump owns properties in at least seven countries around the world (I counted the named international properties on his business website without exploring the ones that weren't given locations.) plus his golf clubs in the UAE and Scotland. And he wasn't even a child when he built them.
Posted by:Fred

#13  Graham needs to hurry up and finish
his transition---to being a Democrat.

What did you think I was gonna say?
Posted by: charger   2016-11-14 21:33  

#12  ...And as it turns out, Lindsey Graham doesn't know anything about being a Republican.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2016-11-14 17:49  

#11  SC: Trump 55% Clinton 41%.Looking forward to the Silence of the NeverTrumps: A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.
Posted by: regular joe   2016-11-14 15:58  

#10  Also his full experience in international finance supplemented with the clinton tutorials in international graft.
Posted by: Skidmark   2016-11-14 15:06  

#9  so who dies in todays environment? He understands negotiation from a position of strength, it is a business principle. He also knows you cant buy loyalty, which Mr Graham, Obama, and the entire DC crowd have still failed to realize.
Posted by: 49 Pan   2016-11-14 14:56  

#8  Trump 'doesn't know anything about' importing alien tyranny and supporting hostile totalitarian regime change.

Isn't that a praise?
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660   2016-11-14 12:52  

#7  Trump need only do the opposite of what Obama has done and he won't be far off.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2016-11-14 10:15  

#6  Compared to Lindsey McSniffles and Obumble, Trump is a fucking genius in foreign policy.
Posted by: DarthVader   2016-11-14 09:34  

#5  Time for Lindsey to admit his life-long desire and live publicly as a woman, not just act like one.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2016-11-14 07:07  

#4  The time has come for Lindsey Graham to sit down and STFU. Better yet, retire.
Posted by: Dave D.   2016-11-14 07:04  

#3  Seems that foreign policy has been on life support for about 8 years.
Posted by: JohnQC   2016-11-14 06:31  

#2  Good, because USA foreign policy for the last 30 years was an unfunny joke.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-11-14 01:17  

#1  And somehow 0bean knows more?
Posted by: gorb   2016-11-14 01:08  

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