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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThat's got to sting: Bush Advisor Wolfowitz Says He'll Likely Vote for Clinton
SPIEGEL: Trump seems to be particularly willing to find a new partner in Russia.Wolfowitz: Putin is behaving in a very dangerous way. And Trump sounds as though he would simply sit back and allow that to go on. I worry about where that would end up.
SPIEGEL: Donald Trump has also questioned NATO's importance to the United States. Can you understand him on this point?
Wolfowitz: No, because NATO is still very important for us, it is still the most remarkable alliance in history. It stuck together through 40 years of Cold War, and it then joined together to fight in Afghanistan. In the 1980s, I would not have thought this was going to be possible.
SPIEGEL: How would the world change if Trump became president?
Wolfowitz: We are already seeing a degree of instability in the world because Obama seems to have consciously wanted to step back. Trump is going to be "Obama squared," a more extreme version of the same thing.
SPIEGEL: Why wasn't the Republican Party able to stop Donald Trump?
Wolfowitz: Obviously, there's unhappiness among the population. The Bernie Sanders phenomenon shows that it's not confined to Republicans. There is a general sentiment that the country is on the wrong track. Against that background of pessimism, someone like Trump can be successful in getting the nomination.
SPIEGEL: Who are you going to vote for in November?
Wolfowitz: I wish there were somebody I could be comfortable voting for. I might have to vote for Hillary Clinton, even though I have big reservations about her.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/paul-wolfowitz-says-he-will-likely-vote-for-clinton-a-1109639.html
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That's got to sting: Bush Advisor Wolfowitz Says He'll Likely Vote for Clinton (Original Post)
kpete
Aug 2016
OP
Proud Public Servant
(2,097 posts)1. Nope. Here's what stings
DU members are voting for the same candidate as PAUL FUCKING WOLFOWITZ. If that isn't a symptom of a broken democracy, I don't know what is...
kpete
(71,994 posts)2. ouch
and
peace,
kp
Lucky Luciano
(11,256 posts)3. Indeed. nt
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)4. Oh the drama.
No one on DU is voting for Hillary because PAUL FUCKING WOLFOWITZ might do so. His reasons for potentially doing so have no relationship to why the rest of us will vote for her.
And it is sad that any one on DU would make such a suggestion.
PJMcK
(22,037 posts)5. Well said, JoePhilly (n/t)
spanone
(135,834 posts)6. paul fucking wolfowitz finds his party's candidate so politically repulsive he's voting democratic
roamer65
(36,745 posts)8. Don't forget John Negroponte. N/t
Brother Buzz
(36,434 posts)7. Wolfowitz: Trump can't do anything right, including combing his hair