{"id":358207,"date":"2018-04-24T18:46:14","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T17:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/scarier-than-bolton-think-nikki-for-president-consortiumnews\/"},"modified":"2018-04-24T18:46:14","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T17:46:14","slug":"scarier-than-bolton-think-nikki-for-president-consortiumnews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/scarier-than-bolton-think-nikki-for-president-consortiumnews\/","title":{"rendered":"Scarier than Bolton? Think Nikki for President \u2013 Consortiumnews"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Nikki Haley is America\u2019s face to the international community. She is the Ugly American personified, thinking that American Exceptionalism gives her license to say and do whatever she wants at the United Nations, argues Phil Giraldi in this commentary.<\/span><\/span><\/span><span id=\"more-27181\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>By Phil Giraldi<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Small-Philip_Giraldi_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Small-Philip_Giraldi_by_Gage_Skidmore-150x150.jpg\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-26771\" alt=\"\" width=\"121\" height=\"121\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-26771\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Small-Philip_Giraldi_by_Gage_Skidmore-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"121\" height=\"121\"\/><\/noscript><\/a>The musical chairs playing out among the senior officials that make up the President Donald Trump White House team would be amusing to watch but for the genuine damage that it is doing to the United States. The lack of any coherence in policy means that the State Department now has diplomats that do not believe in diplomacy and environment agency heads that do not believe in protecting the environment. It also means that well-funded and disciplined lobbies and pressure groups are having a field day, befuddling ignorant administrators with their \u201cfact sheets\u201d and successfully promoting policies that benefit no one but themselves.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"p_1_2\"\/> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">In the Trumpean world of all-the-time-stupid, there is, however, one individual who stands out for her complete inability to perceive anything beyond threats of unrelenting violence combined with adherence to policies that have already proven to be catastrophic. That person is our own Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, who surfaced in the news lately after she unilaterally and evidently prematurely announced sanctions on Russia. When the White House suggested that she might have been \u201cconfused\u201d she responded that \u201cWith all due respect, I don\u2019t get confused.\u201d This ignited a firestorm among the Trump haters,\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/don-apos-t-let-nikki-011633575.html\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>lauding Haley<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u00a0as a strong and self-confident woman for standing up to the White House male bullies while also suggesting that the hapless Administration had not bothered to inform one of its senior diplomats of a policy change. It also produced a flurry of Haley for higher office tweets based on what was described as her \u201cbrilliant\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><i>riposte<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u201d to the president.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"p_1_3\"\/> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">One over-the-top\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/haleys-response-dont-confused-draws-notice-043623676--election.html\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>bit of effusion<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u00a0from a former Haley aide even suggested that her \u201cdeft rebuttal\u201d emphasizes her qualities, enthusing that \u201cWhat distinguishes her from the star-struck sycophants in the White House is that she understands the intersection of strong&#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2018\/04\/24\/scarier-than-bolton-think-nikki-for-president\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nikki Haley is America\u2019s face to the international community. She is the Ugly American personified, thinking that American Exceptionalism gives her license to say and do whatever she wants at the United Nations, argues Phil Giraldi in this commentary. By Phil Giraldi The musical chairs playing out among the senior officials that make up the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2524,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-358207","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2524"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}