Tuesday, November 29, 2016

The Secretary of State should be ambitious for the good of the world.

November 29, 2016





That's the address of a New York Times article that was published yesterday, called "David Petraeus, Secretary of State Candidate, Meets With Trump."

I think that the Secretary of State at this time should be someone who has a lot of military experience, but Mr. Petraeus is not my first choice.  

He's not my last choice; my last choice is anyone who doesn't have a lot of military experience and who will spend the next four years making international business deals without concern for human rights and without real, working knowledge of the world's political and military terrain.  Anyone who has to have that knowledge mostly supplied by assistants who work for the White House is the wrong choice.  


Copyright, with noted exceptions, L. Kochman, November 29, 2016 @ 1:01 p.m.