Eliot A. Cohen was one of the 122 who signed the open letter stating “But we are united in our opposition to a Donald Trump presidency.” Also: “… as committed and loyal Republicans, we are unable to support a Party ticket with Mr. Trump at its head. We commit ourselves to working energetically to prevent the election of someone so utterly unfitted to the office.”
The Trump train has left the station. Cohen can’t board that train now. If the Trump team intends to institute its own policies that depart from those of the past, how else can they do it but by rejecting people like Cohen whose intent is to subvert Trump’s goals? It makes perfect sense for them to tell him he lost. They should tell him and others like him in the neocon circle to “Get lost”, or “Beat it” or “Scram”. They will need to marginalize the neocons and their other detractors if they hope to withstand the mounting attacks directed at their new administration. It’s a very good thing that Trump has already talked with Putin. This repudiates the neocons and warmongers in both parties. The sooner that Trump can get across to America that Russia is not an enemy and that the Cold War is really over and done with, the better.
What boggles the mind is that Cohen could have expected anything else than rejection. I already said this in a blog yesterday before this little tiff made news.
2:56 pm on November 15, 2016 Email Michael S. Rozeff
