Donald Trump Named former CIA director and extremist neoconservative James Woolsey his senior adviser on national security issues on Monday. Woolsey, who left the CIA in 1995, went on to become one of Washington’s most outspoken promoters of U.S. war in Iraq and the Middle East.
As such, Woolsey’s selection either clashes with Trump’s noninterventionist rhetoric — or represents a pivot towards a more muscular, neoconservative approach to resolving international conflicts.
So much for at all that about Donald Trump being a foreign policy realist. Trump is clearly concerned about the neoconservative defection to Killary, as well as strong pushback from the military wing. This gives the impression that Donald Trump is out of his league and has no policy stance but is making it up on the fly in response to political concerns. I was previously that the election of Killary would by a foreign policy catastrophe but Trump only a disaster. Now I am beginning to think in terms of how big a catastrophe they would respectively produce.
Moreover, since leaving government Woolsey has been deeply involved in the military-intelligence-indusstrial-governmental complex. Now he has dollar signs in his eyes.
Woolsey went on CNN on Monday and said that he was principally motivated to support Trump because of his plans to expand U.S. military spending.
Trump gave a speech last week in which he proposed dramatic expansions of the Army and Marines, and hundred-billion-dollar weapons systems for the Navy and Air Force. He offered no justification — aside from citing a few officials who claimed they wanted more firepower.
Woolsey stood by Trump’s proposal on Monday.
“I think the problem is her budget,” Woolsey said of Trump’s opponent, Hillary Clinton. “She is spending so much money on domestic programs — including ones that we don’t even have now, and the ones we have now are underfunded — I think there can be very little room for the improvements in defense and intelligence that have to be made.”
