Tillerson's says Iraq War failed, but supports forceful containment of Russia & Iran and "soft power" aid programs. Classic "Realpolitik."
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Replying to @ThaddeusRussell
Tillerson seems to be a Wilsonian "American leadership" globalist, but he rejects inflexible neocon "regime change" strategies. Meh.
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Is Trump aware that his Secretary of State nominee holds totally conventional and mostly non-Trumpian views on foreign policy?
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Don't take the hearings literally - if he made completely non-interventionist comments, he wouldn't be confirmed.
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That certainly occurred to me as a possibility. Let's hope.
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Yep, in the same boat. We'll find out soon enough, when the first manufactured 'crisis' appears.
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