Why Is Tom Cotton working behind the scenes to stop Trump’s pick, Elbridge Colby, from getting confirmed at DOD?

I found this: https://www.semafor.com/article/02/11/2025/in-the-family-business-o...

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A fierce behind-the-scenes argument over Donald Trump’s foreign policy is coming to a head in the nomination of Elbridge Colby as a top policy hand at the Pentagon.

Colby, who served at the Pentagon in Trump’s first term, is the most visible leader of the Republican faction that has argued against foreign intervention. Iced out of Jeb Bush’s 2016 presidential campaign for being insufficiently hawkish, Colby’s path to prominence came in the new-fashioned way: A combination of “Establishment” credentials (degrees from Harvard University and Yale Law School, and a grandfather who ran the CIA), fulsome public praise of Trump, a combative and hyperactive presence on X, and a crucial appearance on Tucker Carlson’s podcast.

Colby’s broad argument is that the US is overextended and needs to reduce its commitments in Europe and the Middle East in order to ramp up its presence in Asia and avoid war with China. But he’s faced a low-grade insurgency in Washington from the overlapping circles of hawks and allies of Israel, including a prominent group of Jewish leaders who wrote a previously unreported letter to senators this month raising “serious concerns” about his nomination.

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Jea9 February 17, 2025 at 7:56am

I found this: https://www.semafor.com/article/02/11/2025/in-the-family-business-o...

The News

A fierce behind-the-scenes argument over Donald Trump’s foreign policy is coming to a head in the nomination of Elbridge Colby as a top policy hand at the Pentagon.

Colby, who served at the Pentagon in Trump’s first term, is the most visible leader of the Republican faction that has argued against foreign intervention. Iced out of Jeb Bush’s 2016 presidential campaign for being insufficiently hawkish, Colby’s path to prominence came in the new-fashioned way: A combination of “Establishment” credentials (degrees from Harvard University and Yale Law School, and a grandfather who ran the CIA), fulsome public praise of Trump, a combative and hyperactive presence on X, and a crucial appearance on Tucker Carlson’s podcast.

Colby’s broad argument is that the US is overextended and needs to reduce its commitments in Europe and the Middle East in order to ramp up its presence in Asia and avoid war with China. But he’s faced a low-grade insurgency in Washington from the overlapping circles of hawks and allies of Israel, including a prominent group of Jewish leaders who wrote a previously unreported letter to senators this month raising “serious concerns” about his nomination.

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Elbridge Colby’s nominati
- ilona Trommler > Jea9 February 17, 2025 at 4:41pm
  
  Sounds like a good man to have. I think perhaps Cotton is worried Colby will cut back on Israeli moneys. I don't think that's the goal, it's all the other Middle East spending that is a concern. I do agree we need to pay more attention to China!
- Jea9 > Jea9 February 17, 2025 at 4:36pm
  
  So Colby is not a typical war-mongerer. They make money on war.
ilona Trommler February 17, 2025 at 6:47am

WHY?????

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