When John McCain Warned Antony Blinken Was ‘Dangerous to America’Joel B. Pollak 1 Dec 2023
In 2014, then-Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) rose to the floor of the U.S. Senate to give a 24-minute speech denouncing Antony Blinken, nominated by President Barack Obama to be Deputy Secretary of State, as “dangerous to America.”
The speech is gaining attention again in conservative media circles in the wake of Blinken’s trip to the Middle East, in which he reportedly told Israel that it lacked “credit” to remove Hamas from the Gaza Strip, a goal the U.S. had supported in public.
McCain, known (and criticized) as a foreign policy hawk, said that he usually did not oppose presidential nominees, even from the opposing party, because “elections have consequences,” and the commander-in-chief generally had the right to pick his own team.
However, he said, Blinken had repeatedly misled the public about the Obama administration’s commitment to stated foreign policy goals, and had backed policies that turned out to be disastrous, such as the hasty withdrawal from Iraq in 2011.
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