Looks like the war hawks in Congress are feeling the pressure……..Trump is NO hawk and since the war hawk party has picked him for their nominee how does that fare with the hawks running for re-election?
The American Conservative tackles this question……..yes Irene….the old hippie radical reads the American Conservative…..go figure…..
The 2016 presidential election has been a dispiriting one for Americans interested in a having a more restrained and responsible foreign policy. The Republican field was overflowing with hawkish candidates, and Hillary Clinton arguably has the most aggressive foreign policy of any Democratic nominee since Lyndon Johnson. The Republican nominee, Donald Trump, offers the public a jumbled, incoherent mix of nationalist bluster, support for torture, yet an apparent wariness of new wars, combined with a shaky grasp of international affairs. A Clinton win will ensure at least another four years of the failed conventional Washington consensus, and no one really knows what a Trump administration would do overseas. That’s the bad news.
The good news this year is that the election may bring a few important changes to the make-up of the Senate that could have a salutary effect on the quality and direction of our foreign-policy debates. Several high-profile hawkish members of the Senate face difficult re-election fights this fall or are not seeking re-election. Their possible replacements promise to be a significant improvement, at least when it comes to opposing new wars and supporting diplomatic engagement with rivals and troublesome states.
Source: Endangered Hawks | The American Conservative
Could there be an end to their strangle-hold on the defense budget? The M-IC will pull out all stops to see the the war hawks keep their positions of influence…NO matter who wins this damn election……
Gotta bounce…..be back tomorrow and to dazzle you guys….have a good holiday….
It’s indeed a sad thing, altogether, to have to use the term “hawks” to describe these vile, mostly ignorant, bigoted people, because most hawks are fairly gorgeous creatures, as honorable as any animal not human. It would be nice to think this particular sub-species, if the analogy must be applied, were the next one to become extinct; sadly, what they stand for, conflict and war, are part of why so many of the real hawks are becoming extinct, as we humans destroy their habitats & prey over the years….
I know, weird, but, oddly apt, I think….
gigoid, the dubious
I prefer to save the birds but as far as the others go….die now and avoid the rush….chuq
Unfortunately, my money is on the feathered hawks going extinct first, even though the flightless hawks deserve extinction.