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Perhaps the most heroic moment of President Trump’s historic 2016 campaign was when he stood on the South Carolina debate stage and dared to call out the Iraq War for the disaster it was. Trump achieved victory in 2016 in large part because of his sacred pledge to end our nation’s forever wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere and—finally–to bring our brave warriors back home. President Trump has taken a major step to fulfill that sacred pledge with recent commitments to troop withdrawals, combined with the nomination of two of America’s leading voices for America First foreign policy to key ambassadorial roles in Germany and Afghanistan.

Shamefully, Revolver News has learned from top senate sources that Republican Senator Jim Risch has been deliberately sabotaging the confirmation of William Ruger and Colonel Douglas MacGregor to ambassadorial posts in Afghanistan and Germany respectively on account of their support for the President’s America First policy of troop withdrawals. 

Colonel Douglas MacGregor is one of the strongest defenders of the America First foreign policy President Trump campaigned on. He is a vocal critic of neoconservative foreign policy interventionists like Never Trumper Bill Kristol, and believes, as the President does, that it is time to end the endless wars and bring our troops home.

William Ruger, like Colonel Douglas Magregor is a prominent and tireless voice opposing the foreign policy establishment that puts its own lobbying contracts and power ahead of the interests of the American troops and the American people. Here is a representative sample of Ruger’s thinking on foreign policy and Afghanistan in particular:

In the face of increased polarization and so many 50/50 splits in the electorate, it is noteworthy that support for withdrawal from Afghanistan has substantially increased over the last two years. In March of 2018, 50 percent of Americans supported decreasing (26 percent) or fully removing (24 percent) U.S. troops from Afghanistan with 16 percent favoring an increase and 19 percent supporting maintaining the same number of troops. By the beginning of 2019, 51 percent of Americans continued to say they would support the decision to remove U.S. troops from Afghanistan within the year with only 22 percent responding that they would oppose this decision and 27 percent unsure. By January of 2020, 69 percent of Americans supported bringing U.S. troops home from Afghanistan compared to 14 percent opposed. Today, as noted above, the number of Americans who favor bringing U.S. troops home from Afghanistan stands at 76 percent. Although the questions had slightly different framing, the answers show the same trend—support for withdrawal from Afghanistan has consistently risen.

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When it comes to American public opinion on key U.S. foreign policy issues today, it is clear the public supports ending our current wars while not getting into new ones and focusing on domestic priorities. Current and future policymakers would be wise to take into account the increasingly realist and restrained views of the American people when determining our nation’s path in the world. [National Interest]

Ruger and Macgregor are known quantities in the foreign policy space and would be committed to implementing the wishes of the American people and the President when it comes to troop withdrawals, among other things. This genuine commitment to President Trump’s America First foreign policy is precisely the reason Senator Risch intends to stall and if possible block their nominations entirely. The President’s nominees are not beloved by the neoconservatives and the swamp, and from Senator Risch’s point of view it simply may not matter that they represent the President’s positions on troop withdrawal — positions which are favored by a majority of the American people on both sides of the isle.

One senate source revealed to Revolver that staff members on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which Risch chairs, referred to the President’s nominees Ruger and Macgregor as “outside of the mainstream.” Douglas Macgregor is a Colonel who has served his nation with distinction, and William Ruger is both a scholar and a decorated veteran. The notion that either one of these men is outside of the mainstream completely contradicts polling which indicates that the majority of the American people including military and military families support the President’s promised troop withdrawals. If Senator Risch fails to move forward with Ruger and Macgregor’s nomination, it will be he, not the President’s nominees, who will be outside of mainstream opinion.

Another source told Revolver that there is no reason that the Senate Foreign Relations Committee wouldn’t be able to have a vote on Ruger and Macgregor’s nominations. The Senate has to be in Washington for the upcoming Supreme Court nominee hearings. Risch’s office does not even have special duties related to that hearing, so Risch will be in Washington and not be particularly busy. There is no excuse to continue to stall the confirmation of key Trump nominees who will be instrumental to overseeing the President’s pledge to end the forever wars, bring our troops home, and start putting American interests, not special interests, first.

Senator Risch is actually good on many issues, and still has time to do the right and patriotic thing and move forward with a vote. In order for the confirmation to move to the next step Risch and his fellow republicans on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee must have a vote on the nominees, approve them, and thereby send the nominees to the general senate for consideration. For those wondering, Risch’s Republican colleagues on the committee are as follows:

Risch, James E. (ID), Chairman
Rubio, Marco (FL)
Johnson, Ron (WI)
Gardner, Cory (CO)
Romney, Mitt (UT)
Graham, Lindsey (SC)
Barrasso, John (WY)
Portman, Rob (OH)
Paul, Rand (KY)
Young, Todd (IN)
Cruz, Ted (TX)
Perdue, David (GA)

In his capacity as Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Senator Risch needs to move promptly to confirm Ruger and Macgregor—or he needs to answer to the to the President, the American people, and the military families who demand to know why he is putting the special interests of the war-loving swamp ahead of his country and the brave warriors who defend it.

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