Posted by
Mike on Monday, December 12, 2011 2:53:11 PM
http://www.westernperspective.blogspot.com/
It looks like the burka-haters may get their way again in shaping US foreign policy. Newt Gingrich has announced that he will appoint neo-con John Bolton as Secretary of State.
Gingrich is pre-Revolutionary Pennsylvania Dutch both from his natural and adoptive fathers. According to Wikipedia, he has Scottish, Irish and English ancestry mixed in. Raised Lutheran, he first became an evangelical Baptist and then Catholic. Unlike Obama, there is no question that both of Newt's parents were US citizens.
Newt has wide popular appeal within the White middle class. He brings together the older Germanic elements within American culture, both Catholic and Protestant, with the newer Germanic settlers particularly in the Midwest states crucial to a Republican victory in 2012. (I once dated a Gingrich girl from Pennsylvania).
Newt will follow the Reagan playbook of caution in dealing with Islam, combining tough rhetoric with the moral strength to back it up. This will prevent the recklessness which has led America into two costly, un-winnable wars. War can only be justified as a last resort.