Whaaa?

Ted Cruz’s National Security Advisor Has Zero National Security Experience

Instead, Ted Cruz went with an art historian. One who, when asked about Cruz’s earlier statements on ISIS, said, “I’m never going to apologize for working for a candidate who wants to be too mean to the terrorists. That doesn’t seem to me really to be a downside.”

So just who is Dr. Victoria Coates, who appears to be Cruz’s sole National Security Advisor? Let us start with what she is not.

She has never worked in the Pentagon; never worked in the State Department; never worked in the intelligence community; never served in any branch of the military; never lived overseas representing the United States in any way; never worked for the federal government; never had a security clearance. (Unless, perhaps, for editing. I’ll check that.); never written a book, or indeed any academic or professional article, on national security, any aspect of any of the branches of the military, or on modern international relations; never been in a combat zone, one of ours or anybody else’s.