Jeremy Herb, Politico: Will Trump flunk the commander-in-chief test?
The real-estate mogul thinks he's got what it takes. The GOP establishment thinks otherwise.
The Republican defense establishment is terrified Donald Trump will fail the “commander in chief test” with voters should he continue to defy all predictions and become the GOP nominee.
Just a few months ago, at an annual gathering of national security leaders at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California, former Republican lawmakers and national security officials openly dismissed the real estate mogul-turned-entertainer, predicting his campaign for the White House would soon falter.
But with Trump's steady rise in the polls, even as national security has loomed ever larger in the campaign, they are now officially spooked by his apparent lack of preparedness to be commander-in-chief — and what it could mean in a head-to-head contest against the Democratic favorite, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, according to interviews with more than a dozen Republican lawmakers and national security experts.
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WNU Editor: I do not know if Donald Trump has what it takes to be a Commander in Chief .... we shall see in the months to come. But what I find amusing is that the same people who got the U.S. involved in nation building in Afghanistan and the Iraq war are now criticizing and questioning Donald Trump's foreign policy and military-defense credentials .... I just cannot make this stuff up.
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not sure why this article is outdated....but at this point in time the gop establishment is starting to favor the trumpnado, hillary will likely fall to bernie and it will be a trump vs. sanders dance off....unless cruz can survive the trumpnado...
all the american public want to see now is for the current administration to be nailed into the ground and perhaps "fired" or even tried as criminals on multiple counts of treason, bribery, gunnrunning, invasion of privacy, obstruction of justice, etc....
good day.
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/2334/andrew_bacevich_on_the_new_american_militarism/
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175404/tomgram:_william_astore,_american_militarism_is_not_a_fairy_tale/
http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175172/tomgram:__meet_the_commanded-in-chief/
http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175172/tomgram:__meet_the_commanded-in-chief/
http://www.alternet.org/comments/election-2016/bernie-bias-mainstream-media-undermines-sanders-every-turn
With 289 days to go, it's a little too early to call it, one way or another. The Dem's Convention start's July 25th, the Repub's , July 18th.
Link 1 was supposed to go here:
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/01/22/us/politics/donald-trump-ted-cruz-republican-establishment.html?referer=http://www.vox.com/2016/1/22/10811268/donald-trump-ted-cruz
Yep, Trump at least was smart enough to see the Iraq war as the absurd exercise it was.
Only publically after it had started and was entering the first Quagmire phase,
And he has NeoCon/ Iraq War/ Conspiracy Theorist John Bolton as one of the two key Foreign Policy Advisors on his team.
http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2015/08/donald-trump-john-bolton-iraq-war
Trump failed as a cadet commander.
That does not mean he did not learn form his failure.
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