Trump Adviser: No Neocon
Shift, ‘Not the Bush Administration’. Gorka
says president made pragmatic call on Syrian strike, suggests little risk of
escalation, by Edmund Kozak 4/14/17
Sebastian Gorka, deputy assistant to
the president, said on Friday morning that President Donald Trump’s populist
supporters need not fear that the decision to strike a Syrian government
target last week represents an embrace of neo-conservatism.
“It’s not a modification,” Gorka
said Friday on “The Laura Ingraham Show.” “Donald J. Trump hasn’t changed from
November 7 to Good Friday, April 14,” he said. “This is not the Bush administration, and it
is not neo-conservatism.”
“This isn’t 2003, this isn’t 1991
and the Gulf War, and the president has not changed one bit,” Gorka said. “This
is not the Bush administration, and it is not neo-conservatism.”
Rather, Gorka claimed, Trump’s
actions are motivated by the recognition that “if there is to be [a global]
influence, it better be our values.”
Gorka blasted the notion that a
limited Tomahawk missile strike in any way precipitates full-on
intervention. “It makes no sense — the idea that we are mired in something when
we take an action that lasted 15 minutes,” Gorka said. To compare it with Iraq
or Afghanistan “is just a salacious analogy … we are not mired in anything,”
Gorka said.
Trump’s decision to attack Syria is,
according to Gorka, motivated not by a desire to dive headfirst into the Syrian
swamp but by a desire to project American power.
Trump Aide: President Has Not Changed Policy on SyriaGorka describes missile attack as limited 'surgical
strike,' not prelude to greater entanglement
"Think about what happened
since then," said Gorka. "Vladimir Putin didn't want to meet with us,
well he did," Gorka said, also pointing out China's decision to suspend
coal imports from North Korea. "These are not accidental issues,"
said Gorka. "This is the master of the art of the deal." "The
bottom line is [Trump's] a patriot, and he's a pragmatist," said Gorka.
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by Hank Sullivan, 4/17/17
Trump spokesman says neocons not
winning with Trump and Trump has not changed. At best Gorka's statement is
partially true. The neocon globalists certainly had a win when they convinced
Trump Assad attacked his own people. We must assume Trump believed #fireMcMAster. If Trump's actions are guided by false, agenda-driven
narratives rather than the truth, there is no end to where that could take us.
We must stay in contact with the
White House in the ways we have available-Twitter, email, Facebook, video and
send messages of truth to our president...carrot and stick, just like he does.
When he does good, he gets the carrot, when he follows bad information or
advice, he gets the stick. Help me and others in that regard. We cannot let
Trump become isolated, to the extent that we can prevent it.
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The issue
is whether or not Assad dropped chemical weapons on the rebels. He and the Russians said that the chemicals
were on the ground and stored by the rebels. Trump’s action suggests that the
evidence pointed to Assad.
If Assad
can catch the rebels with another stash of chemical weapons stored near
civilians, he can assert that Trump was wrong.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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