Elbridge Colby: Right Man To Carry Out Trump's America First Mandate
Elbridge Colby will actually do what Americans have given Trump a clear mandate to do, and for that reason, the D.C. blob is desperate to stop him....
President Trump was elected with a mandate — a mandate to rethink the core assumptions of Washington, D.C., that have led this country to disaster after disaster. A mandate to put America first instead of last.
To fulfill his mandate, the president needs to be able to make the appointments of his choosing without being sabotaged by the members of his own party that he carried to victory in November.
Yet right now, a fight has broken out over the nomination of Elbridge Colby to be undersecretary of defense for policy, the top strategy official at the Pentagon. Make no mistake: This is a make-or-break moment for whether Donald Trump’s America First foreign policy will succeed — or even happen. Colby is being attacked precisely because his opponents recognize he is the most effective and able person to put Trump’s America First approach into effect. He must be confirmed and empowered.
... Colby... has been arguing against the disastrous Bush-Cheney foreign policy regime since he was in college. Colby instead embraces a foreign policy of genuine peace through strength, one that avoids wars while protecting our authentic interests, gets our allies to do their part, and focuses on the top threats to Americans rather than irrelevant distractions....
Colby’s acclaimed book The Strategy of Denial is a guidebook for how to put an America First foreign policy into practice...
... many Republican politicians want to frustrate President Trump’s attempt to change American foreign policy. They want to revive the disastrous foreign policy of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Mitch McConnell. These America Last Republicans think they can manipulate President Trump and his top officials the same way they tried to do in his first term.
They don’t even deny it...
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How Elbridge Colby Can Vanquish America-Lasters, American Conservative, 20 February 2025:
... [Elbridge Colby] will, if confirmed, handle matters of paramount importance for U.S. national security...
What’s more, the nomination battle could determine whether the United States pursues calculated restraint on the world stage or clings to a strategy of global domination ill-suited to an age of multipolarity...
... the position he would fill this term is undersecretary of policy at the Pentagon. Colby is a conservative realist who opposes “primacism”—encompassing neoconservatism and other variants of hawkism—and who advocates prioritizing China to prevent its dominance of Asia and deter a Taiwan invasion. Since prioritizing China would entail shifting relatively scarce military resources away from Europe and the Middle East, Colby’s views have stirred controversy among hawks focused on Russia and Iran...
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