roberth
05-10-2017, 07:04
America First!!
I would urge all of you to read the address made by SecState Rex Tillerson at the Department on May 3. Read the text itself (https://www.state.gov/secretary/remarks/2017/05/270620.htm), not the rather ignorant press reports about it, e.g., here (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/03/rex-tillerson-america-first-speech-trump-policy?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+Collections+2017&utm_term=224515&subid=3721434&CMP=GT_US_collection) and here (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39824026), which seem to rely entirely on reactions either by hard-core bureaucrats or outright Obamistas. It's a remarkable speech in its clarity and, must be noted, one of considerable gutsiness as Tillerson must have known how it would be twisted and maliciously misinterpreted. It also, ahem, happens to reflect just about everything I have ever said and thought about how we should run US foreign policy--here (http://www.thediplomad.com/2016/11/towards-pro-america-pro-west-foreign.html?m=0), for example.
http://www.thediplomad.com/2017/05/tillerson-at-state-sounds-like-he-gets.html
https://www.state.gov/secretary/remarks/2017/05/270620.htm
I would urge all of you to read the address made by SecState Rex Tillerson at the Department on May 3. Read the text itself (https://www.state.gov/secretary/remarks/2017/05/270620.htm), not the rather ignorant press reports about it, e.g., here (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/03/rex-tillerson-america-first-speech-trump-policy?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+Collections+2017&utm_term=224515&subid=3721434&CMP=GT_US_collection) and here (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39824026), which seem to rely entirely on reactions either by hard-core bureaucrats or outright Obamistas. It's a remarkable speech in its clarity and, must be noted, one of considerable gutsiness as Tillerson must have known how it would be twisted and maliciously misinterpreted. It also, ahem, happens to reflect just about everything I have ever said and thought about how we should run US foreign policy--here (http://www.thediplomad.com/2016/11/towards-pro-america-pro-west-foreign.html?m=0), for example.
http://www.thediplomad.com/2017/05/tillerson-at-state-sounds-like-he-gets.html
https://www.state.gov/secretary/remarks/2017/05/270620.htm