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Bolton Out as National Security Adviser

September 10, 2019 by GregC

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President Trump is looking for his fourth National Security Adviser in less than three years following the departure of John Bolton on Tuesday, just 18 months after taking the job.

The debate continues as to whether Bolton resigned (as he claims) or whether he was fired, as Trump insists.  More importantly, what impact did Bolton have on the Trump administration?  Why was the proposed meeting with the Taliban at Camp David the final straw?

Former Pentagon official Jed Babbin believes Bolton was trying to influence Trump in the right direction.

“He was a hard liner and trying to restrain Mr. Trump’s straying off of America’s best interests,” said Babbin, who served as a deputy undersecretary of defense in the George H.W. Bush administration.

“I would think that a lot of the things you saw, in respect to Iran in particular, with Mr. Trump going ahead with a very hard line against Iran is certainly due to Bolton,” added Babbin.

As mentioned in Trump’s tweets announcing Bolton’s departure, the president and Bolton disagreed about many policies, most recently whether to hold a summit with the Taliban at Camp David.  Trump scuttled the meeting after a terrorist attack killed an American service member, but seemed very much in favor of the idea while reports show Bolton adamantly opposed it.

Babbin says the meeting was a “horrid” idea.

“First off, we did not have an agreement.  You don’t bring the president in to sign the outline of an agreement, which was apparently Mr. Trump’s idea that he would get together with the Taliban to do,” said Babbin, who also blasted the negotiations with the Taliban to this point.

“Number two, you have to have preconditions to any negotiation really.  When (lead U.S. negotiator) Zalmay Khalilzad went in there without first demanding a cease-fire in Afghanistan that lasted more than ten minutes, that was a huge mistake,” said Babbin.

Listen to the full podcast to hear Babbin’s assessment of Trump’s approach to North Korea and what kind of successor to Bolton is likely to emerge.  Babbin also explains why it “beats the snot out of me” what the Trump approach to foreign policy actually is.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: Bolton, Iran, Korea, news, Taliban, Trump

Steyer Set to Debate, Camp David Disaster, GOP Shies from Primaries

September 9, 2019 by GregC

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Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America are glad to see billionaire impeachment activist Tom Steyer lock in a spot in the October Democratic presidential debate – both to watch him push impeachment when the party wants none of it and to see better debates. They also react to President Trump planning a meeting with Taliban leaders at Camp David before abruptly cancelling at the last minute. Find out why Jim sees the Camp David invite as the “most morally abhorrent” mistake made by the Trump administration. And they scold Republican Party leaders in four states for planning to skip primaries and caucuses in 2020.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: 2020, Camp David, democrats, National Review, primaries, Republicans, Taliban, Three Martini Lunch, Tom Steyer, Trump

Olson Re-Hired, Pompeo Pans Taliban Deal, NRA Branded Terrorists, Fantasy Draft!

September 5, 2019 by GregC

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It’s a big day on the Three Martini Lunch!  Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America start by welcoming the news that Leif Olson has been re-hired at the Labor Department just one day after he was falsely accused of anti-Semitism by Bloomberg Law.  Then they are encouraged that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is also quite leery of any peace deal with the Taliban.  And they unload on politicians in San Francisco for labeling the National Rifle Association.

Then, as the NFL begins it’s 100th season, Jim and Greg put a political twist on the occasion and have a lot of fun by holding a fantasy football draft involving the Democratic presidential candidates!

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: 2020, Afghanistan, Biden, Bloomberg, Booker, Castro, Delaney, democrats, draft, fantasy football, Leif Olson, Mike Pompeo, National Review, NFL, NRA, San Francisco, Taliban, terrorists, Three Martini Lunch, Warren, Williamson

Score One for Freedom, Bloomberg’s Brazen Lie, Trusting the Taliban

September 4, 2019 by GregC

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Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America welcome the news that Hong Kong – at the direction of Communist China – has withdrawn the extradition bill that sparked massive protests, but they’re still not sure this story will have a happy ending.  They also pummel Bloomberg News and reporter Ben Penn for forcing the resignation of a Department of Labor appointee over an “anti-Semitic” social media post that wasn’t anti-Semitic at all.  And Jim is not at all impressed with the apparent peace plan in Afghanistan, which seems to amount to little more than trusting the Taliban not to commit terrorism or harbor terrorist groups.

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Filed Under: Economy, News and Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: Afghanistan, Bloomberg, China, Hong Kong, journalism, Leif Olson, National Review, Taliban, Three Martini Lunch

Walid Phares: How We Can Leave Behind A Stable Afghanistan

January 4, 2019 by GregC

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For more than 18 years, American forces have beaten back the enemy in Afghanistan, but leaving behind a stable, reliable country is proving far more challenging.  However, terrorism expert Dr. Walid Phares says there is a way to a lasting victory there if only U.S. officials are willing to listen.

Phares says U.S. policy seems to embrace two options when dealing with enemies overseas.  He praises the U.S. and our allies for repeatedly crushing the Taliban and other radical groups but points out the military gains constantly slip away due to societal instability.  The other option is to declare the mission complete and leave, which runs the great risk of all gains being wiped out and extremists filling the vacuum.

Phares is tired of watching this debate.  In a recent post he said victory is achievable without committing American forces to Afghanistan indefinitely.

“There is a way to win the war in Afghanistan. It’s not the way we fought it for 18 years and not the alternative suggestion to talk to the Taliban and leave. Washington, Administration & Congress must challenge themselves to win and leave. It could have been won within a decade,” Phares wrote, later adding that his approach would wrap up the Afghanistan mission in three years.

And what is his plan?

“It’s to leave but always leave behind allies, forces, and, most importantly, a civil society that can resist.  We need to inject strength in civil society,” said Phares.

He says we need to make the Taliban’s allies our allies.

“Those forces who can help us – if we want to withdraw – will be the same forces that the Taliban has used for so many years, the tribes,” said Phares.

“The Taliban has used the Pashtun tribes for the the past 15 years.  We haven’t approached them strategically.  We haven’t included them in the government.  I wouldn’t vote to bring the Taliban to government, but I would vote to bring the Pashtun tribes…to government,” he added.

Phares says the other critical element towards a stable society is winning over the women of Afghanistan, especially the mothers and the teachers.

“(Mothers) are in contact with their children for so many hours.  This is where you begin counter-radicalization, not at age forty or thirty when the Taliban recruit them,” said Phares.

“There are 18,000-25,000 teachers in Afghanistan.  They are training the minds of the kids from age five or six until they leave the school,” said Phares.

Listen to the full podcast to hear how these ideas are being received in Afghanistan and here in Washington and why he thinks a similar approach would also work in Syria.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: Afghanistan, news, Taliban, victory

Cherokees Slam Warren, O’Keefe Exposes McCaskill, Sinema’s Bad Week

October 16, 2018 by GregC

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Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America sip three good martinis for conservatives today.  They begin by highlighting Cherokee Nation’s slamming of Elizabeth Warren’s DNA test as being any sort confirmation that she belongs in its ranks.  They also discuss Project Veritas exposing the McCaskill campaign in Missouri for taking great pains to prevent voters there from knowing how liberal McCaskill really is.  And they chronicle the litany of bad press for Arizona Democratic Senate hopeful Kyrsten Sinema, including not caring if an American fought for the Taliban in 2003 and bringing in witches for an anti-war vote that same year.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: Arizona, Cherokee, Claire McCaskill, Elizabeth Warren, Kyrsten Sinema, National Review, O'Keefe, Taliban, Three Martini Lunch

Bergdahl Pleads Guilty, Iraq Devolves Again, Newsweek’s Hate

October 16, 2017 by GregC


Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America react to Bowe Bergdahl pleading guilty to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy, glad that justice is being done and not being swept under the rug in the case of the soldier who left his unit in Afghanistan and was returned by the Obama administration in exchange for five top level Taliban detainees.  They also groan as Iraqi forces are now fighting with the Kurds over territory in northern Iraq when they’re supposed to be finishing off ISIS.  And they unload on Newsweek for it’s reckless reporting, including such gems as interviewing pedophile and former House Speaker Dennis Hastert about politics and declaring the Family Research Council a hate group.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: Bowe Bergdahl, Dennis Hastert, Family Research Council, Iraq, Kirkuk, Kurds, Martini, National Review, Newsweek, President Obama, Taliban

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