American Sun-Light News & Literature

Despite our misgivings about whether Mr. Trump is actually going to implement a watered down America First policy or a firm, upright one (see our preceding post, “Trump’s Neocon Lite Tendencies are Worrisome”), we would like to give his oncoming, fledgling administration the benefit of the doubt. Sebastian Gorka, for instance, Trump’s pick for Senior Director for Counter-Terrorism, seems to be a neocon but, at least, the position that he will be in would appear not to be so much focused on the direction of foreign policy, per se, but focusing on a defensive posture as it relates to national security. Gorka concerns us slightly less than the other neocons, Rubio and Waltz, given the position he’ll be in, yet in still, his commentary on Newsmax suggests that he has an “Old Cold War” mindset, wherein he can’t seem to let go of his seeming, early Russophobia that, apparently, developed before the New Russia came about when Boris Yeltsin, the president of Russia for almost all of the nineteen-nineties, came to power. In other words, Gorka is an old school Cold Warrior, and it’s troubling that he would have the ear of Mr. Trump on matters outside of his bailiwick, such as the Russia – Ukraine War. The only thing the United States needs to do with the Eastern European war is get out of it as soon as January 20th, 2025 (Inauguration Day), and preferably today. Of course, it would be great if Mr. Trump could come up with a peace plan that both Putin and Zelensky would agree to but that should not be the determining factor for us to withdraw from the conflict unilaterally, without conditions. We, the American People that elected Trump, need to hold him to his “America First” promise…and to paraphrase our First President, George Washington, “Stay out of foreign entanglements”.