Author: Kelley Beaucar Vlahos
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Mr. Trump, you would’ve been lucky to have Dan Davis on your team
Earlier today the Jewish Insider magazine ran a story saying that the White House tapped retired Lt. Col. Danny Davis for Deputy Director of National Intelligence, working under the newly confirmed DNI Tulsi Gabbard. It was a hit piece by a pro-Israel platform that primarily focused on Davis’s critical views — published only in articles…
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Kurds sign deal in Syria: Case for US troops there ‘weaker than ever’
Amid all of the violence on the Syrian coast this week, there was one development Monday that may reduce the chaos in the northeast: the new Sunni leadership has struck a deal with the Kurdish-led Syrian Defense Forces to merge with the central government in Damascus. This is big, since the Kurds had been fighting…
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The US will have a Happy New Year if Trump takes 4 pieces of advice
President-elect Donald Trump spent the holidays mocking Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, suggesting that the U.S. could annex and make Canada the 51st state. He then went on to propose that the U.S. retake the Panama Canal, and buy Greenland. Trump’s remarks brought the usual outcries and exhortations, but, in all seriousness, Trump will have…
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Realists cheer as Elbridge Colby named top DoD official for policy
Elbridge Colby, who worked guiding Pentagon policy in first Trump administration and is an advocate of building up military assets and deterrence as a way to avoid future U.S. wars — particularly with China — has just been named the incoming Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. It is an important role, and one that…
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Trump eyeing hawks and neocons for top foreign policy/nat sec roles
News Monday that President-elect Trump was eyeing three hawks for top slots in his administration has put a bit of a damper on the headiness that restrainers on the right were feeling over weekend news that Nikki Haley or Mike Pompeo would not be joining the administration. By 8 p.m. Monday, there was confirmation that…