Prominent Neocon Elliot Abrahams named special envoy to Venezuela

[vita3]

We've been NEOCONED. PNACAD & HOODWINKED

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/25/elliott-abrams-envoy-venezuela-1128562

[Warlord]

Oh dear.. seems more like Pompeo

[vita3]

Maybe just maybe we are done destroying Syria..but Venezuela is certainly next

Ughh

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/venezuela-latest-elliott-abrams-trump-pompeo-maduro-juan-guaido-a8747306.html?fbclid=IwAR0iVLrrKst-kZK9yK0pCB7Q-ctVXcUWoZu7JryqhybWKW04KIdpJcs-Xhc

[Warlord]

He is nothing but a hatchet man for the New world order.

[vita3]

Yep..Overthrowing Governments, killing masses, lying about it & then getting control of natural resources..is what he has been involved with for decades.

[Brian4Liberty]

Well, that removes any doubt that Pompeo is a neocon, and that Trump is a fool.

[juleswin]

Well, that removes any doubt that Pompeo is a neocon, and that Trump is a fool.

If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, surrounds himself with ducks, then maybe just maybe it is a duck.

[Anti Globalist]

Fuck Abrahams.

[Brian4Liberty]

https://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/elliott-abrams/


Elliott Abrams is a senior fellow for Middle East studies at the Council on Foreign Relations who is closely associated with neoconservative foreign policy advocacy,[1] including the campaign to push war in Iraq even before the 9/11 terrorist attacks.[2] Although often cited in the press as a “respected” foreign policy analyst,[3] Abrams is arguably best known for being convicted on charges of withholding information from Congress concerning the Reagan administration’s role in the Iran-contra scandal and for defending perpetrators of mass human rights violations—including genocide—during the Central American conflicts of the 1980s.[4]

Abrams, who was pardoned by President George H.W. Bush, subsequently served as an adviser on Mideast policy at the National Security Council (NSC) during the George W. Bush presidency, where he was a key advocate for an aggressive “war on terror” after 9/11.

From his perch at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), which includes his CFR blog “Pressure Points,” Abrams frequently comments on critical U.S. foreign policy issues and discusses political problems in the Middle East, often with a view to encouraging U.S. intervention, promoting a right-wing Israel-centric agenda, and launching rhetorical broadsides against regimes he does not favor.[5]

A long-standing neoconservative ideologue, Abrams is the son-in-law of former Commentary editor Norman Podhoretz and writer Midge Decter, the trailblazing couple who helped shape neoconservatism in the 1970s.[6] His spouse, Rachel Abrams, who passed away in 2013, was an activist based at the Emergency Committee for Israel. Abrams has supported or worked for a large number of neoconservative groups and campaigns, including the Project for the New American Century, the Center for Security Policy, the Hudson Institute, and the Ethics and Pubic Policy Center, where he served as president for several years.

Like other neoconservative figures, Abrams has unabashedly employed accusations of anti-Semitism to smear people he disagrees with over Middle East policy, including patently non-anti-Semitic figures like former Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel.[7]

Rejected by Trump

In early February 2017, it was widely reported that Abrams would be tapped by Donald Trump to serve as deputy to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, a move that surprised many observers, including conservative groups like the libertarian Cato Institute, which called it “baffling.” Wringing his hands about “hundreds” of neocons “scurrying” into the administration if Abrams is admitted, Republican Sen. Rand Paul said that he voted to confirm Tillerson because he appeared to have a “realist approach” while Abrams didn’t espouse “any type of foreign policy realism.”[8]

During the 2016 presidential election contest, Abrams was less strident in his opposition to Trump than other neoconservative figures. Nevertheless, he initially backed other candidates in the GOP primary and was selected by Sen. Ted Cruz to be a member of his campaign’s national security team. In a May 2016 article for the Weekly Standard titled “When You Can’t Stand Your Candidate,” Abrams urged readers not to “allow the Republican convention to be a coronation wherein Trump and Trumpism are unchallenged.”[9]

Because of this criticism, Trump ultimately rejected Abrams, even though Tillerson strongly supported his appointment. “The core point here is that this comes from Trump’s thin-skinnedness,” a top Republican strategist who supported the Abrams appointment told Politico. “He is the problem, this is all he cares about.” Added Eric Edelman, former undersecretary of defense in the George W. Bush administration: “It really speaks so poorly of Trump. … It robs him of somebody who could have helped him enormously because they know the State Department extremely well and would have been respected enormously by the foreign service officers who work with him.”

On Iran

Iran has long been a focus of Abram’s advocacy. A vocal opponent of the negotiations that led to the 2015 nuclear deal, he accused the Obama administration of being naïve in its efforts at rapprochement with Tehran, even after moderate President Hassan Rouhani was elected in 2013. “We are fooling ourselves if we see in [President Hassan] Rouhani a reformer who wishes to change the Iranian system, move toward democracy, and abandon the nuclear weapons program. That ‘Rouhani narrative’ was carefully constructed to ensnare Western diplomats, officials, and journalists. We have no excuse if we fall for it,” Abrams wrote in his CFR blog in October 2013.[10]

Regarding negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program, Abrams wrote in mid-2014 that “the road to peace does not lie through weak agreements with brutal dictatorships” and that “any agreement that strengthens the Iranian regime–that enhances its reputation, that gives it greater leverage in the Middle East, or that strengthens its strangle-hold on the Iranian people–serves neither the cause of freedom nor that of peace.”[11]

Remarked one commentator: “If the negotiations fail, the chances of military action increase exponentially. The consequences promise to be disastrous, both to the people of Iran and to the global economy. More death and misery. But, for Mr. Abrams, all that suffering can be winked at.”[12]

After a comprehensive nuclear agreement was reached between Iran and the P5+1 world powers in July 2015, Abrams accused President Obama of “throwing in the towel” and said that the administration had “acted as Iran’s lawyer.” In a National Review article, he wrote: “Iran has won a great victory: A weak country has outmaneuvered and outnegotiated the United States and the EU. … The rise of Iran means great danger ahead.”[13]

Vox’s Matthew Yglesias wrote in response: “What John Kerry and his team think is that if they had held out even more than they did, the international coalition to maintain the sanctions would have unraveled as foreign leaders concluded that the US, rather than Iran, was being unreasonable. This is the key point on which the whole thing turns, and yet Abrams has literally nothing to say about it—he has no argument.”[14]

In August 2015, Abrams penned a controversial piece for the Weekly Standard that accused President Obama of resorting to anti-Semitism in his criticisms of the deal’s opponents. Pointing to Obama’s spirited defense of the Iran deal during an August 2015 speech at American University, Abrams misleadingly wrote that “The president … must know that he is here feeding a deep line of anti-Semitism that accuses American Jews of getting America into wars.” He added: “The basic idea is simple: to oppose the president’s Iran deal means you want war with Iran, you’re an Israeli agent, you are in the pay of Jewish donors, and you are abandoning the best interests of the United States.”[15]

Abrams has on numerous occasions sought to lay the groundwork for direct U.S. confrontation with Iran. In August 2012, for instance, he argued in the Weekly Standard blog that Congress should vote on a joint resolution to give the president the authority to go to war with Iran.[16] In a January 2011 post on his CFR blog, Abrams highlighted apparent setbacks in Iran’s nuclear program to urge the United States to aggressively pursue regime-change strategies in that country, including strengthening sanctions. He wrote: “The new Republican leaders of the House Armed Services, Foreign Affairs, and Intelligence Committees—respectively Buck McKeon, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, and Mike Rogers—ought to make this their first order of business. They should be asking right now what more the United States and our allies can be doing to stop the Iranian nuclear weapons program, make our sanctions more effective, and support democratic dissidents in Iran.”[17]

[AZJoe]

Daniel McAdams has tweets on elliot Abrams

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[AZJoe]

In addition to criminal Elliot Abrams, The House has appointed "fixer" of the DNC primary to also "fix" the Venezuelan elections, along with her cohorts Donna Shalala and Debbie Mucarsel-Powell - the election "fixer" dream team.
Wow. The hypocrisy knows know bounds.


Congresswoman who fixed Democratic primary for Clinton now ‘fixing’ democracy in Venezuela (http://theduran.com/congresswoman-who-fixed-democratic-primary-for-clinton-now-fixing-democracy-in-venezuela/)

Regime change and foreign interventions are things that the two US ruling parties agree on regardless of how much they exchange blows at home. Venezuela is the latest place where Republicans and Democrats have found common ground.

If you watch the US media, you know what is happening in Venezuela: Dictator Nicolas Maduro is brutally suppressing the people he has been robbing for years, and now they have revolted and elected a true representative of their interest, the one true legitimate acting president Juan Guaido. And now it’s up to America to ‘fix’ democracy by whatever means necessary.

The House Foreign Affairs Committee has even offered a simple explanation on how a ‘dream team’ of Democrats have prepared a package of laws, which will ensure Venezuela’s transition into a better future. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell ... Donna Shalala w... Debbie Wasserman Schultz ...


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