Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Omar takes aim at Trump's Venezuela envoy in fiery hearing" video.

  1. I guess I'm in the minority on this one. Elliott Abrams was in the thick of Iran Contra and other nasty undertakings in Central America in the '80s. He was a big part of covert U.S. actions to supply anti-Sandinistas in El Salvador, in direct contravention of laws passed by Congress. He plead guilty to a MISDEMEANOR charge of lying to Congress about money solicited from Brunei and the whole covert network of crooks and rebels used to illegally supply rebels with guns. It's the EXACT kind of thing that Trump SAID he was running AGAINST. If this disarray at the top of his foreign and national-security staff of NeoCons persists, Trump is going to lose a lot of his base. The people want a smaller military footprint around the world, and want people to exercise self-determination, rather than have it imposed by US. We should be pals with Venezuela. We should be the best friend all of those countries have. Venezuela is rich in heavy crude. Let them sort things out. There was already a legitimate widespread opposition to Maduro's way of doing things. Let it ripen. Don't interfere. But I'm still hopeful that the neocon BS we're seeing right now is just posturing by Trump. He's not above planting a thorn in everybody's side, just so he can remove it, later, and get a better deal. Pompeo, Bolton, Abrams... They either Come to Jesus, and fall in line with Trump's overall goals, or they need to go. I was all ready to vote Trump, 2020, but I'll vote 3rd-party, again, if this neocon BS persists. This might be the ONLY issue I'm going to side with Omar on. I'm also willing to listen to her on some of our wackier positions on Israel. Supporting a sovereign nation's sovereignty is one thing. But making it illegal, here, to even talk against Israel or dis-invest in Israel, which is every American's right? That's some over-the-top BS I hear being pushed in some places, in the guise of fighting anti-Semitism, and I'm not buying it. And, partly due to our own religious traditions, I do think that Israel exercises far too much influence on our foreign policy.
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