Elliott Abrams Quotes

A small group of zealots undermined our golden opportunity to pursue peace, not war. Little did we dream that they had a vastly different “vision” of the New World Order. That group included U.S. Vice-President Dick Cheney, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, former Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith who held the number three position at the Pentagon, Lewis “Scooter” Libby, a Wolfowitz protégé, who later served as Cheney’s Chief of Staff before his dismissal, John R. Bolton who was assigned to the State Department to keep Secretary of State Colin Powell in check, and Elliott Abrams, appointed to head the Middle East policy at the National Security Council. Apparently all envisioned a world dominated by the U.S. – economically and militarily.

He put the worst neo-cons available on the case: Elliott Abrams, formerly convicted of conspiracy in the Iran-Contras deal in the ’80s and John Bolton, famous first-degree warmonger. Trump then

This is what the American flag symbolizes: the fight for democracy against those who seek to limit or eliminate it. That’s why we can simultaneously salute the flag to acknowledge the fight for democracy and then “take a knee” to protest the forces within our own country who refuse to respect the power and dignity of all Americans. In fact, it has been America’s written policy to promote democracy and justice throughout the globe. Or it used to be. Trump changed that as well. Trump removed the words “promoting justice and democracy” from the State Department mission statement in 2017. In response, Republican Elliott Abrams, deputy national security advisor for Global Democracy Strategy under George W. Bush, remarked, “We used to want a just and democratic world, and now apparently we don’t.”9