Biden’s handlers are going all-in on reimposing the Obama policy of betraying our allies and aiding our enemies.
“Veterans in Congress Speak Out Against Biden Defense Pick Colin Kahl,” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, March 19, 2021:
Military veterans serving on the House Armed Services and Foreign Affairs committees are urging their colleagues in the Senate to oppose President Joe Biden’s Pentagon nominee Colin Kahl, telling the Washington Free Beacon that Kahl is a pro-Iran “ideologue” and that “the only policy shop he’s qualified to run is in Tehran.”
The congressmen are speaking out as Kahl’s nomination for undersecretary of defense for policy has stalled with the Senate Armed Services Committee—Democratic senator Joe Manchin (W.Va.) remains undecided on the pick. Republican senators have already come out strongly against Kahl, citing his Twitter rants against the GOP and pro-Israel hawks, as well as his support for anti-Israel policies and the Iran nuclear deal. Vocal opposition from war veterans in Congress is likely to get the attention of key senators as Kahl’s nomination comes closer to a vote.
Kahl is “an ideologue who has personally attacked several Republican politicians,” Rep. Jim Banks (R., Ind.), a Navy Reserve lieutenant and member of the House Armed Services Committee, told the Free Beacon this week.
“The last thing the Pentagon needs is another hyper-partisan,” said Banks. “And Kahl has repeatedly drawn moral equivalencies between Iran, the number one state sponsor of terror, and our allies. The Pentagon is there to protect all Americans, and its leadership should reflect the values and beliefs of all Americans. Colin Kahl is way out of step.”
Rep. Ronny Jackson (R., Texas), a retired U.S. Navy rear admiral who served as a White House physician for Presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump, noted Kahl’s involvement in crafting the Iran nuclear deal and said it would be “irresponsible to confirm a chief architect of this defective deal to run what is supposed to be a nonpartisan policy shop at the Department of Defense.”
“Colin Kahl famously said that Iran would use our taxpayer money to buy ‘butter, not guns,’ when in fact Iran used our money to buy missiles and bombs and to support terrorist proxies and militias like Hamas, Hezbollah, and al Qaeda,” said Jackson. “The only policy shop he’s qualified to run is in Tehran.”
House Foreign Affairs Committee member Rep. Joe Wilson (R., S.C.), a retired Army National Guard colonel, called Kahl “a dangerous pick for our national security.”
“On Iran, he opposed bipartisan bills proposing sanctions for the past decade, and he opposed the bipartisan designation of the [Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps], a group with American blood on their hands, as a terrorist organization,” said Wilson, who also pointed out Kahl’s opposition to the airstrike that killed IRGC commander Qassem Soleimani.
“We must not forget about the hundreds of American soldiers that were killed by the IRGC and their militias in Iraq by IEDs. Their families continue to suffer,” Wilson said. “There are a number of capable, competent, and mainstream Democrats in foreign policy, but Colin Kahl is not one of them.”
Rep. Greg Steube (R., Fla.), an Army veteran who also sits on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said Kahl has “a grave misunderstanding of Iran’s capabilities and consistent endorsement of terrorism” and called the nomination “unacceptable.”…
Rep. Mike Gallagher (R., Wis.) said he opposes Kahl because his nomination signals the Biden administration’s plans to continue the Obama-era policy on Iran.
“[President Obama’s] policy made America unsafe and was a radical departure from the policy of every one of Obama’s predecessors since Jimmy Carter,” said Gallagher, a retired Marine officer. “I feel it is my responsibility to oppose nominations of officials in the Biden administration whose intention is to normalize the abnormality that was Obama’s policy.”
Rep. Michael Waltz (R., Fla.), a combat-decorated veteran who also worked in the Pentagon’s policy-making department, said Kahl’s efforts to secure sanctions relief for Iran as part of the original nuclear agreement endangered American forces operating in the region….
Onesaffronladoftherisingsun says
The final days of Trump administration will tell you what exactly biden admin will do. If you look at the rush for peace treaties with Israel supported by america it clearly explains that the biden admin will at first swallow a shitload of spicy jihadi semen and sure be going after appeasing moslames by implementing the 2 states theory.
The china sanctions + declaring uyghurs genocide will tell you that biden is gonna be pro chinese manwhore
If m correct in the near future we will see libtards eating eachother because biden is a clown & he has no power over the party, also the democrats dont even have anything in common now, all of them are just mansluts working for various liberal hippy ideals.
rooare says
Kahl said “Iran would use our money to buy butter not guns”. Apparently he meant they’d use some of the money to butter his bread, always follow the money.
mortimer says
Kahl seems to discount the importance of ISLAMIST IDEOLOGY … he seems to adopt a MARXIST EXPLANATION to the Third World wars that leaves out theology.
ed says
Does anyone really think the GOP will ever win another national election ?
James Lincoln says
Right now, doesn’t look good ed.
Not with those pesky Dominion voting machines, mail-in ballots, Democrats / RINOs cooking the books, cowards at the US Supreme Court…
gravenimage says
The Dems are working to destroy the filibuster, as well.
Alfredo says
The future looks bleak for the GOP as long as the same spineless members of the Supreme Court continue to shamelessly surrender to the Cancel Culture outrage mob. The damage inflicted on the nation by the cowards at the highest court is incalculable and long lasting.
Their refusal to even look a the mountain of evidence for fear of arousing the wrath of the mob did not prevent the continued mayhem in cities throughout the nation.
Walter Sieruk says
Joe Biden and his crew are so very anti- Jewish and anti-Israel that they are in essence un-American.
As the former US President ,William Howard Taft. had ,so wisely make known when he declared in a speech “Antisemitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.”
Walter Sieruk says
Joe Biden is feeble in both mind and body. That was very obvious way before he took the Oath of Office on January 20 that old man Joe was totally unfit to be President.
Maybe the high ranking Marxist Democrats schemed this allow along , to have that old feeble Joe enter the Oval Office and then declare him incompetent ,then remove him from Office and replace his with Communist Harris as President.
Which Obama things were bad. With Biden things are worse , if Harris becomes President then things in America will be at the condition of very worst.
mortimer says
Attacks against Americans and against Jews will increase dramatically in the next months. Those who helped elect Bribeden will have BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS! (The election was stolen by the Big Tech oligarchs and their obedient minions.)
gravenimage says
Biden’s handlers’ Pentagon pick is anti-Israel ‘ideologue,’ ‘only policy shop he’s qualified to run is in Tehran’
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*Very disturbing* Colin Kahl sneered at President Trump for daring to say that he opposed Islamic terrorism. Her specifically castigated the president from including the horrors of Iran in the same category as ISIS and Al Qaeda–never saying in what way the bloody Mullahs are superior. He also condemned Trump for honestly noting that much Islamic terrorism is simply mainstream Islam.
Scary stuff.
James Lincoln says
gravenimage says,
“He also condemned Trump for honestly noting that much Islamic terrorism is simply mainstream Islam.”
I did not know that Pres. Trump had stated that islamic terrorism was mainstream islam.
With great respect, you have a reference?
gravenimage says
Perhaps I put this a bit optimistically, James. Trump said (as I’m sure you know) that “Islam hates us” and that it was “very hard” to separate Islam from radical Islam, “because you don’t know who’s who”.
This is Kahl condemns here:
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/04/like-middle-east-wars-youre-gonna-love-president-trump-214985/
James Lincoln says
Much thanks for the reply, gravenimage.
I agree with your interpretation…
gravenimage says
Thanks, James.