Elbridge Colby confirmed by the Senate for the maximum position at the Department of Defense
Elbridge Colby will now take on the pentagon The post number three after a controversial battle of the Senate ended with one vote to confirm it to the role.
The Senate voted from 51 to 45 to confirm the national security strategist as Undersecretary of the Department of Defense for Politics, with three Democrats who joined most of the Republicans in the vote in his favor. Senator Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., He was the only republican without vote.
Colby has successfully overcome skepticism from Gop Hawks like Senator Tom Cotton, R-Ark., Who worried about his previous statements about Iran, even if he lost the former leader of the majority of the Senate.
“The long public record of Elbridge Colby suggests the desire to discard the complexity of the challenges that have to face America, the critical value of our allies and partners and the urgent need to invest in hard power to preserve the American primacy,” said McConnell in a statement after the vote.
“The definition of the priorities that Mr. Colby supports is fresh, new and urgently necessary is, in fact, a return to a conception of the Obama era of à la cartegthy card. Leaning Ukraine and Europe and reducing the Middle East to give priority to the difficulties between America and our discussion between America and our America and America, for our fights, our fights, our America, our America. the drives and business. “
Colby, co-founder of the Marathon Initiative and former deputy assistant secretary of defense for the strategy and development of the force under the Trump administration, is known above all for its role in creating the 2018 national defense strategy, which has reorganized the long-term military strategy towards a great competition of power with China.
Vance Visit Capitol Hill to solicit the senators to confirm Elbridge Colby for Pentagon n. 3 posts
Elbridge Colby will now assume that post number three of the Pentagon after a controversial battle of the Senate ended with one vote to confirm it to the role. (Dominic Gwinn/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)
Has long supported the US soldiers He must limit his resources in the Middle East to rotate in the Indo-Pacific region. Colby had a support convinced by the internal circle of Trump, who raised the warmth on the Senate Republicans to overcome his confirmation.
Colby had tempered some of his previous statements, including one who suggested living with a nuclear Iran was safer than bombing Iran’s nuclear sites and one that suggested that the United States could “live without” Taiwan.
Pressed by the cotton during his confirmation hearing, Colby said he believed that Iran is an “existential” threat to the United States
“Yes, an Iran armed nuclear-in the Senator particular, since … we know they have worked on ICBM radius capacity and other skills that would represent an existential danger for the United States,” Coldby said.
Colby had the convinced support of the Trump internal circle, including vice -president JD Vance. (Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Has promised to provide “good credible military options” to the president if diplomacy with Iran fails.
“The only worst thing about the perspective of an Iranian armed with nuclear weapons would be (the) consequences of the use of force to try to stop them,” Coldby said in 2012.
“I would say a lot about what I was discussing at that moment, these conversations 15 years ago, many of the opponents who felt they had an informal or even irreverent attitude towards the occupation of military force,” Coldby explained at the hearing. “Is it a lot of what I was discussing. My formulation was always appropriate? My precise one was always appropriate? No.”
Senator Tom Cotton pressed Colby in his past comments on Iran. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, incomation through Getty Images)
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“Your opinions on The importance of Taiwan In the United States it seems to have softened considerably, “the president of the armed services of the Senate Roger Wicker, R-Miss., He told Colby at some point during the hearing.
“What I tried to shoot a signal glow is that it is vital for us to concentrate and allow our forces for an effective and reasonable defense of Taiwan and for the Taiwan, as well as the Japanese, to do more,” Coldby said.
