by Soeren Kern
• April 5, 2017 at 5:00 am
- The decision to
select Army Lieutenant General Herbert Raymond
"H.R." McMaster to replace retired Lieutenant
General Michael Flynn as national security advisor is setting
into motion a cascade of other personnel decisions that, far
from draining the swamp, appear to be perpetuating it.
- Trump has decided to
retain Yael Lempert, a controversial NSC staffer from the
Obama administration. Analyst Lee Smith reported that,
according to a former official in the Clinton administration,
Lempert "is considered one of the harshest critics of
Israel on the foreign policy far left."
- Sahar Nowrouzzadeh,
who served as the NSC's Iran director during the Obama
administration, is now in charge of policy planning for Iran
and the Persian Gulf at the Trump State Department.
Nowrouzzadeh, whose main task at Obama's NSC was to help
broker the Iran Nuclear Deal, is a former employee of the
National Iranian-American Council (NIAC), a lobbying group
widely believed to be a front group for the Islamic
dictatorship in Iran.
- "The people who
are handling key elements of those conflicts now are the same
people who handled those areas under Obama, despite the
results of the last election. No wonder the results look
equally awful." — Lee Smith, Middle East analyst.
President Donald Trump appears with Lieutenant
General Herbert Raymond "H.R." McMaster, on February 20,
2017.
The people
U.S. President Donald J. Trump has chosen to lead his foreign
policy team may complicate efforts to fulfill his inaugural pledge
to eradicate "radical Islamic terrorism" "from the
face of the Earth" — a Herculean task even under the best of
circumstances.
An analysis
of the political appointments to the different agencies within the
U.S. national security apparatus shows that the key members of the
president's foreign policy team hold widely divergent views on the
threat posed by radical Islam — and on the nature of Islam itself.
They also disagree on approaches to Iran, the Arab-Israeli
conflict, the European Union, Russia, globalism and other national
security issues.
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