The most hawkish Republican is voting Clinton, and that’s saying something [View all]

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Richard Armitage, who served as George W. Bush’s Secretary of State, has announced that he will be voting for Hillary Clinton. Donald Trump “doesn’t appear to be a Republican, he doesn’t appear to want to learn about issues,” Armitage said. But the fact that Armitage is an extremely aggressive war hawk, not a flexible centrist, makes you wonder: does his endorsement say more about Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton?


This is a man who loves war. He loves it so much that when he was a soldier in Vietnam, he elected to leave his relatively quiet destroyer and fight alongside the Republic of Vietnam Navy’s riverine forces, volunteering for three additional tours of duty. He became part of the top-secret Phoenix program, a counterguerilla contingent that was “the most high-risk, nastiest, most vicious program in the Vietnam War,” according to Larry Ropka, who served alongside Armitage, adding that Phoenix was “right out of Rambo.”