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Title: A ‘cheap hawk’: What would Gingrich’s foreign policy look like?
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news.yahoo.com
URL Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/
Published: Dec 15, 2011
Author: Laura Rozen & Chris Moody
Post Date: 2011-12-31 05:12:13 by GreyLmist
Keywords: Newt Gingrich, Foreign Policy, Cheap Hawk, War Casualties
Views: 89
Comments: 2
Excerpts from http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/cheap-hawk-gingrich-foreign-policy: [sic] "I don't do foreign policy," Newt Gingrich, then the Speaker of the House, told the New York Times in 1995, adding that the proportion of time he spends thinking about domestic policy, compared with foreign affairs and defense, is "90/10." The line was meant as a light-footed dodge from the latest rhetorical bomb he had lit, saying that the United States should recognize Taiwan as a country independent from China. "I was trying to rattle their cage, to get their attention," Gingrich would later say. "I don't think we should recognize Taiwan." Throughout his political career, Gingrich has demonstrated this pattern--basking in the shocked controversy after a provocative remark and then retreating, when necessary, by dismissing the seriousness of his words. And while he focused on domestic issues during his time in the House, he has positioned himself in the Republican presidential race as a bold leader on the world stage. Over the course of his campaign, Gingrich has proposed U.S. support for regime change in Iran, named the former United Nations ambassador John Bolton as his preferred secretary of state, decried the alleged culture of timidity at the State Department and urged more covert operations to be conducted by the Central Intelligence Agency. Like most of the Republican candidates, Gingrich has criticized President Barack Obama for not being aggressive with Iran, for initiating timetables for withdrawal from current wars and for not more firmly taking Israel's side in the Middle East peace process. If Gingrich were elected president, what would his foreign policy look like? [sic] Gingrich, a proponent of the Iraq war and a member of the Rumsfeld-era Defense Policy Board, has shown scant sign in his choice of advisers or statements that he has reconsidered the wisdom or premise of the 2003 American invasion of Iraq. Among Gingrich's coterie of top campaign foreign policy advisers is Jim Woolsey, the former C.I.A. director who was a top Washington booster of Ahmad Chalabi, the Iraqi opposition leader who helped persuade Washington hawks that toppling Iraq's Saddam Hussein would be relatively easy. [sic] "I'm a hawk," Gingrich frequently says of himself on the campaign trail. "But a cheap hawk." Poster Comment: War on the Cheap Hawks like Gingrich and others have caused thousands of casualties to our Military forces from underarmored vehicles, lack of supplies to properly maintain our equipment, defective flak jackets, etc., etc., etc.
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#1. To: GreyLmist (#0)
Whatever the Israeli lobby tells him...and there would be no retreating.
And of course 0bama and the Dems immediately responded, addressed and alleviated those problems while re instituting sane RoE that protect American servicemen?? Huh?? No, not really?? Never mind. What would Gingrich’s foreign policy look like?
#2. To: GreyLmist (#0)
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War on the Cheap Hawks like Gingrich and others have caused thousands of casualties to our Military forces from underarmored vehicles, lack of supplies to properly maintain our equipment, defective flak jackets, etc., etc., etc.
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