Showing posts with label Rex Tillerson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rex Tillerson. Show all posts
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Friday, March 17, 2017
Story about pre-emptive first strike against North Korea is total crap, Rex Tillerson never used the term
The dishonest media put the words in his mouth, but Tillerson never used them.
It's an effort to paint the Trump administration with the stink of George W. Bush.
Foreign Policy acknowledges preemption is only hinted at, here.
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Friday, February 17, 2017
Now we're talkin': Much of State Dept. 7th floor staff laid off
The Deep State at the State Dept. sent packing.
From the story here:
Much of seventh-floor staff, who work for the Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources and the Counselor offices, were told today that their services were no longer needed. ... Ambassador Kristie Kenney, the Counselor of the State Department and one of the last remaining senior officials, was informed that she will be let go. She is a career foreign service officer who had served as an ambassador under Presidents Obama, Bush and Clinton.
Thursday, January 12, 2017
Secretary of State nominee Rex Tillerson throws down the gauntlet in South China Sea
Hooah Rex!
From the story here:
In comments expected to enrage Beijing, Rex Tillerson told his confirmation hearing before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee that China's building of islands and putting military assets on those islands was "akin to Russia's taking Crimea" from Ukraine.
Asked whether he supported a more aggressive posture toward China, he said: "We're going to have to send China a clear signal that, first, the island-building stops and, second, your access to those islands also is not going to be allowed." ...
Tillerson called China's South China Sea island-building and declaration of an air defense zone in waters of the East China Sea it contests with Japan "illegal actions."
"They're taking territory or control, or declaring control of territories that are not rightfully China's," he said.
Tuesday, December 13, 2016
Trump's pick for Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, was the Boy Scout who paved the way for gay boys to join
Because he thought is was in the best interests of those boys.
From the story here:
Despite increasing pressure from gay rights advocates, Exxon has refused to create a specific policy barring discrimination against gay employees, as many Fortune 500 companies have done. Nonetheless, Tillerson was instrumental in lobbying the Scouts’ board to accept openly gay youths, said John Hamre, president of the Washington think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies, of which Tillerson is a board member.
“I can’t get into the intimacy of these conversations. But he agonized over this. He prayed on it, and ultimately he came to the conclusion the only thing that can guide him here is what’s best for the young boys,” he said. “I think he became a key leader in helping the group come to a consensus.”
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