Biden to name long-time confidant Antony Blinken as secretary of state

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President-elect Joe Biden will name Antony Blinken, a veteran foreign policy official and longtime confidant, as his secretary of state, according to a source familiar with the decision.

Blinken, who held top-level national security and State Department positions during the Obama administration, has worked side-by-side with Biden on foreign policy issues for nearly two decades.

Biden is also expected to name Linda Thomas-Greenfield, a Black woman who held a top diplomatic post in the Obama administration, as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, according to multiple reports.
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/reports-biden-name-long-time-021136779.html

This isn't completely official news yet, so grain of salt....

I don't really know anything about this guy, so I have no real problem with it. Does anybody know anything about him that they don't like?

I'm actually glad Joe is installing early people he's very comfortable with, vs picking based on race/gender/quotas. Conservatives should appreciate that angle.

I wonder if Joe avoided Susan Rice to have a better chance of Senate confirmation?

 

I do not know much at all about Blinken Blinking and Nod but it appears that he has the background and the confidence of Biden based on history.

I think that you are right that Joe avoided naming Rice because yes she is a lightning rod whether earned or not.

The Trumpistians desperately want Biden to fill slots based on race, gender, and sexual orientation so they can say " we told you so".

 

Lol...at this point, who gives a flying **** what they want?

 

Never heard of either but it sounds like they are experienced enough.

I wish them well.

 

Yes that is just what we wanted. A warmongering POS with a hardon for Syria. Funny that Biden didn't run on trillion dollar wars but he is already acting like that is where we are headed.

Syria is the most stable it has been since Obama originally destabilized it. Would you like to explain how destabilizing the Middle East again helps the American people?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Blinken

If he was responsible for Syria policy, he is a functional retard and evil to boot. Syria, Libya and Iraq policies are some of the most idiotic catastrophes in American foreign policy history.

 

I was searching for that exact phrase in the OP, but couldn't pull it... that's what I was trying to say.

 

Syria is no more "stable" today than it has been for a decade. As your Wiki article says

"Diplomatic relations between Syria and the United States are currently non-existent; they were suspended in 2012 after the onset of the Syrian Civil War."

I don't see that changing on our change of leadership, since Syria isn't going to change and we aren't going to change it...

 

I want to know where was Blinken on September 11, 2012. Was he a part of the White House decision process that failed to send the Foreign Emergency Support Team to intervene and cost four American's their lives? If he was anywhere near that, he is not capable of handling the position of Secretary of State.

 

Joe seems to have chosen someone with a penchant for war in the middle east... gosh, who could have predicted that.

 

It will give them attack points.

 

There's reports that he's going to name Merrick Garland Attorney General.

 

Enjoy you fishing trip.

 

Moskov Mitch will love that!

 

Probably John Bolton?

 

He’s a good one. Finally leaders returning to the White House

 

Do you suppose that Joe will be asking John to a post as well? And is that something that you would support?

 

I describe stable as the number of deaths in the country per annum due to political violence. I realize that this metric doesn't mean a thing to the new left, but it certainly means a hell of a lot to me. By that metric, Syria is the most stable it has been since Obama broke it. Most importantly, the trajectory has been downwards every year of Trump's presidency. That is going to change and in a year or so, you will be defending the skyrocketing death tolls.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casua...mates of the total number,had died in the war.

 

So we can put away the kids tables in the White House since the adults are coming back.

 

Yeah, leave it to Republicans to turn a confirmation hearing into the 205th Benghazi investigation.

 

No x2... Bolton is only a better mannered and much more intelligent version of Trump.

 

It's called a Civil War for a reason... people die...

Trump did nothing to make the Syrian Civil War better or worse... Doubtful Joe will be able to either......

A civil war is a war between organized groups within the same state or country.

 

We didn't really get involved until 2014 after things were already a mess.

 

I am just starting my research on Blinkin and I found one potentially troublesome itembut I will need to explore it further before I decide if I fully or fooly support Blin Blinken and Nod or not.

 

So how could mr Bolton predict that mr Biden would pic the kind of neocon he just picked as SOS?

 

Gosh, the irony...