Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley has called for a more belligerent foreign policy and suggested that she would alter the name of the United States Defense Department.
“I’m tired of talking about a ‘department of defense’. I want a ‘department of offense’. Every enemy needs to fear us”.
“Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley has called for instilling fear in Washington’s foreign enemies by transforming the U.S. Department of Defense into the ‘Department of Offense’.
Speaking at a campaign event on Friday in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Haley demanded that the U.S. respond to the Israel-Hamas war by providing the Israeli government and military with ‘whatever they need whenever they need it’. She added that Washington’s goal must be to ‘eliminate Hamas, not weaken them’, and she called for cutting off government funding to colleges whose students or employees hold protests in support of the Palestinians.
Having a stronger military and strong leadership in the White House could have prevented the war in Israel, as well as the Russia-Ukraine conflict, Haley argued.
Haley is calling for a bigger and apparently more aggressive military despite the fact that the Pentagon already boasts annual spending of nearly $832 billion – exceeding the world’s next nine largest defense budgets combined. The U.S. has about 750 bases in 80 countries, and it has a long history of regime-change programs and military interventions around the world.
Haley has reportedly been enriched by the U.S. military industrial complex since resigning as Trump’s UN ambassador in October of 2018. She was hired as a board member for U.S. defense contractor Boeing in 2019. Although she left the company the following year, she still owned as much as $250,000 in Boeing stock as of a financial disclosure filing in May.
Haley has earned six-figure fees for speaking engagements, including over $230,000 from the Center for Israel and Jewish Affairs, and she was paid $127,500 for her work as a consultant to an advocacy group called United Against a Nuclear Iran, which has lobbied for military strikes against Tehran. She also netted more than $708,000 in consulting fees from Prism Global Management LLC, an investment fund, and her husband holds stakes in two firms with ties to the defense industry”. -RT
Haley represents the Republican old guard, which is why she will probably garner more support among hawkish internationalists and defense contractors than she will among primary voters.
Perhaps the notion that there lies a need to reassure Israel that it has not been abandoned by its American ally is at the basis of Haley’s skewed political agenda.
Even if one were to accept the baseless assertion, Haley’s “Israel first” doctrine can hardly be of any benefit to the United States given how “preserving Israel’s existence” comes at a financial cost to the American taxpayer that far exceeds the value of the Jewish State as a political ally.
And as neoconservatives such as Nimarata “Nikki” Haley hide their disloyalty to the United States under the guise of combating antisemitism, considering Haley’s pro-immigration record when it comes to the U.S., it’s made abundantly clear that, according to Haley, while an Israeli form of apartheid is to be endorsed and upheld, the national identity of Christian Americans is to be undermined and degraded in the name of “assimilation”.