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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsProminent neoconservatives prefer Hillary
GOP hawks declare war on Trump
Prominent Republican hawks are debating whether to hold their noses and vote for Clinton instead
In interviews with POLITICO, leading GOP foreign-policy hands many of whom promoted the Iraq War, detest Putin and consider Israel's security non-negotiable said Trump would be a disaster for U.S. foreign policy and vowed never to support him. So deep is their revulsion that several even say they could vote for Hillary Clinton over Trump in November.
Hillary is the lesser evil, by a large margin, said Eliot Cohen, a former top State Department official under George W. Bush and a strategic theorist who argues for a muscular U.S. role abroad. Trump's election would be an unmitigated disaster for American foreign policy," Cohen said, adding that "he has already damaged it considerably.
Cohen, an Iraq war backer who is often called a neoconservative but said he does not identify himself that way, said he would "strongly prefer a third party candidate" to Trump, but added: "Probably if absolutely no alternative: Hillary."
In a March 1 interview with Vox, Max Boot, a military historian at the Council on Foreign Relations who backed the Iraq War and often advocates a hawkish foreign policy, said that he, too, would vote for Clinton over Trump. "I'm literally losing sleep over Donald Trump," he said. "She would be vastly preferable to Trump."
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http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/trump-clinton-neoconservatives-220151
Prominent Republican hawks are debating whether to hold their noses and vote for Clinton instead
In interviews with POLITICO, leading GOP foreign-policy hands many of whom promoted the Iraq War, detest Putin and consider Israel's security non-negotiable said Trump would be a disaster for U.S. foreign policy and vowed never to support him. So deep is their revulsion that several even say they could vote for Hillary Clinton over Trump in November.
Hillary is the lesser evil, by a large margin, said Eliot Cohen, a former top State Department official under George W. Bush and a strategic theorist who argues for a muscular U.S. role abroad. Trump's election would be an unmitigated disaster for American foreign policy," Cohen said, adding that "he has already damaged it considerably.
Cohen, an Iraq war backer who is often called a neoconservative but said he does not identify himself that way, said he would "strongly prefer a third party candidate" to Trump, but added: "Probably if absolutely no alternative: Hillary."
In a March 1 interview with Vox, Max Boot, a military historian at the Council on Foreign Relations who backed the Iraq War and often advocates a hawkish foreign policy, said that he, too, would vote for Clinton over Trump. "I'm literally losing sleep over Donald Trump," he said. "She would be vastly preferable to Trump."
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http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/trump-clinton-neoconservatives-220151
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Prominent neoconservatives prefer Hillary (Original Post)
DesMoinesDem
Mar 2016
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Think about this, the assholes who are responsible for the Iraq war and hence ISIS
tularetom
Mar 2016
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tularetom
(23,664 posts)1. Think about this, the assholes who are responsible for the Iraq war and hence ISIS
would be comfortable with a Hillary Clinton presidency. Do you really want these guys back in the drivers seat?
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)2. Very concerning....
B Calm
(28,762 posts)3. Off topic!