"John R. Bolton found himself last weekend in a familiar but dangerous spot: cleaning up ...."
Ah -- the Times true colors (blue and white); withdrawing troops from a country we have neither reason nor right to be in -- somebody better clean up, put troops back in.
You're a disgrace, Times.
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Another person who does not work well with others because of narcissistic inclinations. He also thinks that the U.S. should go where it wants and do what it wants like some idiot from the centuries before 1914 when that kind of thinking finally did in the great empires of that time.
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“Mr. Bolton sometimes gestures to a photo in his office that shows President George H.W. Bush huddling in the Oval Office with a small circle of national security aides, as an example of the ideal way to manage foreign policy.”
Yet Bolton was part of the George W. Bush administration that gave us the Iraq War. In fact, Bolton was one of the most vocal Neocon cheerleaders for the Iraq War, the greatest foreign policy and military disaster since Vietnam War. How does someone with that track record like Bolton get to be even a janitor at the White House, much less anywhere near the position of National Security Advisor? I know the answer in the Trump White House is just run your mouth on Fox News.
There’s also something curious about Bolton’s Neocon disastrous advice compatriots. Most are vehemently anti-Trump and are now regulars on MSNBC, CNN, NYT, WaPo. Yet they remain vehemently pro-Netanyahu and anti-Iran. Bolton and the Neocons share the Netanyahu dream of US attacking Iran, just like US attacked Iraq, with US troops and not Israeli troops dying. Note that Mattis, Kelly and McMaster - all Iran hawks, but all supported Iran nuclear deal and all support 2-state solution for Israel-Palestine, so not taking direction from Netanyahu - all are gone. But Netanyahu allies Kushner, Bolton, Pompeo, Pence, Miller are all still there. Trump is willing to manufacture a national emergency over the wall. Iran War will be the ultimate distraction from the Mueller noose.
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So typical of Trumpian modus operandi- create crisis and then solve same, all to make it look as if you’re doing something substantive, when in fact you’re doing nothing. Bolton helped create the fake crisis, now walks it back to help solve crisis.
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"Sometimes, with aides, the president refers to him as “Mike Bolton.”
Talk about burying the hilarious lead.
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Hoisted on his own petard...
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The purpose of Bolton's trip was to get his instructions from Israel. Mission accomplished
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Does everyone forget that John Bolton was totally disgraced by sane human brings over his 'reign' in Iraq? Not only were we in Iraq probably illegally and certainly for no sane reason, but were were given misfits like Bolton to make policy. We would be better served to have Bolton over at Fox News where we don't have to listen to him and where he belongs. Or may Breitbart News. Whoops, I forgot, our juvenile and dangerous president makes policy from Fox news. It's a very sad state of affairs.
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If we have to rely on Bolton to "slow down" Trump God help us!
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H.R. Bush was the head of he CIA. His expertise and familiarity with international affairs was so much deeper than either Mr. Trump or Bolton that any comparison is ludicrous.
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Obviously, President Trump must have no confidence in or familiarity with his current National Security Adviser, who Trump apparently believes is named "Mike" Bolton. There is an obvious solution to this problem. He should appoint a new National Security Adviser. I believe this point will be covered when Putin provides Trump with an updated set of instructions in their next phone call.
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It occurs to me that President Trump often has just one first name for different categories of people. National Security is "Mike" Pompeo, so everyone else is also "Mike" by default. The Republican Congress is "Steve" Scalise, so everybody else, including minority leader Kevin McCarthy, is also a "Steve." There is only so much room in Trump's tiny mind for proper names, it would seem. This is most likely another example of Trump's progressive mental decline.
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Would someone out there who still really believes Trump and his "advisors" actually know what they are doing please explain how the behavior of Trump et al are making "America Great Again".
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The thesis of the article is the military routinely ignores the commander-in-chief. In particular, if the military actually defied Trump and held provocative military whatever after the president offered North Korea a small concession, then the nation is in big trouble. Now the word of an American president is worthless.
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@Boston Barry Of course the word of Donald Trump who lies about everything and contradicts himself day after day is considered worthless by every world leader, friend or foe.
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From the fall of Rome until the rise of the United States the greatest driver of social and international relations was scarcity. There was not enough for all and only enforced inequities enabled some to live in a highly civilized way. It justified imperialism and racial discrimination, and the powerful to predate on the less powerful. It’s the core justification for ideas like America First.
But since the end of World War II the world has enjoyed the greatest well being for nearly all people with rapid industrial and technological development. Scarcity is seen as something to be eliminated and it is being reduced greatly. The fulfillment of basic needs is the core of the peaceful order that our country has promoted until now.
Trump, Bolton, and Pompeii represent an attempt to revive those nasty and brutal ways of the time when scarcity drove all of our policies. The question before our republic is whether this view of the world is what we all agree should guide our way of life or not.
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No, H.R. McMaster was not a retired general when he served as national security advisor; he was on active duty.
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Catch-22. If Bolton is successful in his job, Trump will fire him. If Trump makes Bolton's job impossible as Indyk accurately suggests, Bolton will eventually quit. These two forces need to reach equilibrium or the nation is going to suffer a true emergency. It's only a matter of time.
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I can understand the argument made by some Democrats that impeachment now is strategically justified based on expected damage to the country between now and 2020. It is so disheartening to one who hungers for the country that once was. And certainly there would be lots of grounds to make the argument based on actions already taken. But on the other hand, I do believe Mr. Trump is just a symptom of much deeper societal problems. How could HE get elected otherwise? So who knows the best corrective course?
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INCOMPETENT. Personal loyalty not patriotism is a Trump prime directive. Competence is not contemplated. The entire corrupt Trump administration consists of clueless loud mouthed deconstructors. Walk back Syria? You can hear Trump's whining voice: Where is it on the map again? What's in it for me?
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It's bizarre and scary if you begin to conceive of John Bolton inheriting the mantle of the "grown up in the room"! Whatever you want to say about Bolton, love him or hate him, agree or disagree, he is intelligent and experienced. Therefore how long can Bolton last with a President who is neither with the additional traits of being volatile and irresponsible.
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There could be a silver lining here. There's so much Administration chaos in the international arena, ie. North Korea, China, the Mideast etc., there's a fair bet the President will start withdrawing troops from all over the world, he'll have Bolton and his fitire "replacement" running around in circles.
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I’ll sleep so much better now, knowing that these two angry old white men are in charge of the largest and most dangerous military force in the history of humanity, and that military policy effectively touching tens of thousands of lives is so professionally managed.
What could possibly go wrong?
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Apparently, the President has chosen someone superior to himself in foreign policy. Isn't that why Mike Bolton was given the position?
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When will Republican Senators realize that the only real crisis they have to contend with is the one in the White House. We have an acting president -- a serial liar who thinks he can get away with acting like a president but is clearly unfit for the job -- surrounded by acting cabinet secretaries and agency heads because no one trusts him or wants to work for him on a permanent basis. As the Economist noted in an editorial titled "The Trump Show: Season Two," the president "does not recognize boundaries, legal or ethical...Confusion, chaos and norm-breaking are how Mr. Trump operates." As for the argument that it's good to have a businessman president, the magazine goes on to say: "If the federal government really were a business, the turnover of senior jobs in the White House would have investors dumping the stock."
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Bolton is a radical, a terribly misguided wrecker. Radical is his brand and he wears it proudly, even though, as suggested by others here, he may be more a pawn of the likes of Adelson than independent actor.
Trump is an unguided wrecker. Chaos is what we expected, bull in the china shop. He has delivered.
We have an American foreign policy steered by inertia, the military bureaucracy, civil servants and business interests all providing a little push when needed to keep the ship from tipping immediately. Consider the absurdity of the situation, the President being stabilized by the likes of Pompeo, Graham and Paul.
American influence is in free fall, at least that’s true for the government that officially represents us. Perhaps a little less influence and responsibility is not all bad, but there will be cost.
For sure, whatever purchasing power we enjoyed, thanks to political capital and the goodwill built up over decades, has been drastically shrunk. For sure, nobody in their right mind will accept American credit as payment.
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John Bolton is thoroughly identified with the failed adventure known as the invasion and 10-year occupation of Iraq. In spite of this Donald Trump pulled him out of his gigantic vat of failure and installed him as National Security Advisor. It is as if Jimmy Carter decided to make Robert McNamara his Secretary of Defense.
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Much has been made of the departure of Mattis leaving the White House with no adults minding our man-child president. Bolton, like Trump and the Republican party after the '16 election, finds himself in the position of the dog who caught the car.
Now what?
The Republicans promised to repeal and replace Obamacare but were revealed to be without a clue as to how to pull that off. The president made outlandish promises during his campaign and is left incoherent and drowning in scandal and litigation.
The administration continues to spin out of control and the Republicans in Congress must sense the inevitable effects of doing nothing to rein in their leader and begin planning his exit. Otherwise, crash and burn are mild descriptions of their fate if they remain tied to a leader who continues to place the nation in jeopardy.
Forget Mueller for the moment, the Republicans need to act quickly and decisively to send Trump to the corner for a two-year timeout if they expect to survive as a party.
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@Rick Spanier
" in the position of the dog who caught the car. "
well put. sadlyk the ensueng wreckageis not pretty!
If Mr. Bolton wants to have influence and be able to advise President Trump on foreign policy, he should resign as national security adviser and become a pundit at FOX NEWS. After all, as the shut-down shows, the real advisers of Trump are the pundits of FOX NEWS.
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It is not clear from the media reports whether President Trump actually authorized or gave permission for Mr. Bolton to walk back the new policy on Syria or whether Mr. Bolton did this on his own. President Trump has a well-established pattern of making decisions without thorough discussion and review with his advisers - and then reversing or toning down his earlier decision. The President of the United States has the power and authority to order a nuclear strike or nuclear combat. To my knowledge, there is no walking back from this kind of order once it is issued.
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@WWalking Back from the Edge, exactly, and when the birds are on their way to the targets and can’t be recalled, Dr. Strangelove and his inner circle, including Bolton, will be comfortable in their bomb shelters.
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Given Israel is calling the shots; how much are they contributing to the cost of our staying in Syria? Maybe they can pay for the wall to keep "us" safe.
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@logic Very different from other countries (example Kuwait, Iraq a.o.) Israel fights its own wars. Keeping our forces in North-West Syria has more to do with Erdogan's clear intention to massacre our Kurdish allies than with Israel.
Our own military leaders (ex. former Defense Secretary Mattis and others) objected to leaving Syria at this stage and it has little to do with Israel.
Your comment is just one more cheap shot at Israel, our only reliable ally in the region.
“Bolton is trying to salvage the situation, but he’s unable to do so, because everyone in the region will question whether he is speaking for himself or for the president,”
Gee, does that mean 'everyone in the region' will come to the same rational conclusion as NATO allies, that Trump is as ignorant as the day is long & it doesn't matter how many administration officials come calling to explain & repudiate & clean up after him, the only thing that matters is what Doofus Donald says?
Like most of the GHW & GW Bush people who have ended up in the Trump WH, it becomes clearer by the day, those administrations were mere breeding grounds for the most extreme & inept of Republican extremists in Trump Land.
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Incompetence is expensive. G.W. Bush's Iraq War was, and is, a textbook example of an arbitrary decision, to "take out" Saddam Hussein under to misguided assumption that Democracy would take root in the aftermath of an American victory over tyranny in Iraq.
G.W.'s naive analysis didn't take into account the revenge of the newly empowered Shiite majority, and their affinity for their Shiite neighbor Iran. The persecuted Iraqi Sunnis became fertile ground for the rise of ISIS. The subsequent costs in "blood and treasure" have been immense.
Now we have a president whose incompetence, ignorance, flip flopping, and attempts at absolute rule by dictate and coercion have transformed the hope of the Free World into a pariah nation bent on destroying alliances and established world order, while at the same time furthering the ambitions of malevolent dictators.
How long can America endure the destruction of our respect and our principles? What will be the cost of this new and unprecedented level of incompetence?
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Chaotic policies, unqualified people running agencies. Trump continues to debunk that political soundbite that business is run better than government.
The only thing to expect out of a Trump Whitehouse is more incompetence and chaos, and this article is merely the latest example of such.
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What if this was a plan to get rid of Mattis so they could go to the war with Iran, that both the Israelis and Bolton have always wanted?
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Bolton is hubristic and overly guarded. He is not an effective collaborator or negotiator therefore he seeks to minimize discussion or debate. He prefers to surround himself with a small cadre of clones.
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It’s interesting how Mattis felt forced to resign in the face of Trump’s decision on Syria, yet Bolton keeps on ticking like an adorable (not) little bunny — notwithstanding the fact that the President’s views on Syria profoundly contradict his own.
What’s different about Bolton? He seems unconcerned that Trump might fire him, as though that possibility were simply out of the question.
Recall that Bolton was hired by Trump at the urging of billionaire Republican mega-donor Sheldon Adelson whose money speaks loudly and whose sole interest, within the sphere of foreign policy, is to make sure that US actions in the Middle East are aligned with the wishes of the Israeli government. Israel wishes the US to remain in Syria as pushback against Iranian presence and influence there. In acting to slow walk or indefinitely delay a US pullout, Bolton is acting in the interests of Sheldon Adelson and Israel. It has nothing to do with enforcing “American sovereignty” which is supposedly Bolton’s particular obsession. American sovereignty? In Syria?
Trump seems okay with Bolton. Money, of course, talks.
Remember that Trump’s initial concern at the prospect of hiring him was Bolton’s mustache, not his support for the war on Iraq which Trump himself had strongly criticized throughout his campaign. So much for our “America First” president.
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@FB
"Remember that Trump’s initial concern at the prospect of hiring him was Bolton’s mustache,"
I recall that Trump didn't keep Janet Yellen in charge of the Fed because she was too short at 5 foot 3 inches.
Trump is so deep.
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@FB So Israel is telling our country what to do. Doing so also gives them card blanche to continue stealing the land from the Palestinians at the expense of US tax payers. Why not let Shelton Silver give his Money, he steals from the poor gamblers in his casino, to Israel. But I suspect he is doing so already. Our tax money is paying and helping this criminal President in Israel.
Perhaps we can then finally use this money and the money Trump saves on the Wall paying down our bloating debt crisis, repair our infrastructure, and build homes for our citizens instead of letting Netanyahu use that money to built more illegal homes for his citizens in the west bank. We are owned by China and give in to Israels demands. What a wimpy country we have become. We just don't care about our citizens, keep them miss informed and frankly stupid with our reality shows and fake news.
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Sheldon Adelson is Bolton’s mentor. Sheldon Silver is someone else entirely.
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Shorter version: US foreign policy is now mayhem, with no coherent strategy, no clear objectives, and nobody in charge.
What could possibly go wrong?
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For now, Donald Trump declares that this newly articulated policy of keeping US troops in Syria is entirely consistent with his unilateral decision to withdraw US troops at the behest of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, but it is only a matter of time before he realizes that the media will present this change as an about face engineered by John Bolton. That, of course, will anger Mr. Trump, who will feel humiliated. Worse, if Mr. Bolton receives praise from allies, congressional leaders, or the media, Mr. Trump will quickly sour on his National Security Advisor, and it will only be a matter of time before Mr. Trump seeks to oust Mr. Bolton.
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@JEG
I could not agree more. It is only a matter of time until mad king Donald drags the US and the rest of the world into the abyss.
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Government policy without debate, discussion, or conflicting views taken into account. Is that still called representative democracy?
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@Lewis Sternberg
No it is called a divided limited power constitutional republic of united states. It is not representative nor a democracy.
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@Blackmamba It is divided because a popular minority of people have a representative in the White House while a popular majority do not.
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What we have here is a ready, fire, aim method of management with few, if any, effective managers.
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I think that probably Mr Bolton days are numbered.
He owes his position to the fact that his views and his dispostion are similar to Trump's.
But Trump' s views on security and foreign policy change like the wind and are based on misunderstanding and ignorance of history and an obsession with pleasing his voter base.
For the moment Bolton will survive but his incompetence and the changing views of his boss will be his downfall. I hope!
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What's the one thing you must do in order to not be undermined by president Trump if you work for him?
It's a trick question. If you work for Trump, you will be undermined. It's not even a matter of being there for long enough that eventually it will happen by accident. No, no, no. Trump will go out of his way to undermine you, purposely. It is impossible for Donald Trump to not play power games with everyone in his orbit. It's a compulsion.
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Historians will well note the embrace of dysfunction as an operational strategy. The Nations foreign policy and the leadership of the GOP tradition since Eisenhower thrown away to soothe one ego, albeit the EGO POTUS.
No modern precedent comes to mind in our history and our many mistakes and misadventures the result of the best and the brightest ....hmmmm.....so maybe the collectivist mistake culture makes less obvious longer term errors ....with higher body counts.
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When you are counting on John Bolton to bring normalcy and sanity to national security policy, your country is truly in trouble.
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So Bolton, Pompeo and the acting secretary of defense will be the last to know when Trump launches a nuclear missile at North Korea.
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The only thing that will cure this madness is to vote out the Greed over People party.
We have over 350 million people living in fixed borders competing in a global economy. We cannot keep pretending that it is 1950 anymore. We cannot be rugged individuals, we need to be citizens. We need healthcare, education, infrastructure, and a clean environment.
Our devotion to individual wealth accumulation has led us to be not fellow citizens but competitors. What we are dong now is not unlike a game of Monopoly where someone ends up with all the money.
Our political process is dominated by PAC money and our reps are for sale. This is how we end up with Trumps and Boltons.
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Russia, China, Iran and NK must be laughing their socks off as these clowns bumble around. Bolton is an arch incompetent advising another arch incompetent.
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Bolton was materially responsible for the Syria debacle as he is a kindred spirit of Trump within the Trump administration. Bolton has played a central role in the destruction of our alliances, in the compromising of American security, and in James Mattis being driven out. When Mattis was in the White House, he and Bolton would not even look at each other.
It was Bolton who vilified both Mattis and his belief in the rule of law, so when Mattis resigned in protest over the withdrawal from Syria he was protesting against Trump's policies, but also against Bolton's. If any doubt it, just ask some of Bolton's oldest friends.
Matt Welch, editor-at-large at the libertarian Reason magazine knows Bolton well and recently stated: "Bolton is a hawk, but a hawk who's not necessarily into nation-building or playing well with other countries. (He's)...let’s go bust them up and then go home." It is why Welch stated that Trump and Bolton "are probably more alike from a dispositional, philosophical standpoint than most people appreciate." David Reaboi, senior vice president at the Security Studies Group, has also known John Bolton for years. He applauds that Bolton and Trump espouse "cynical realism," the total rejection of "decadent" notions like "universal human values."
Former host of Fox Business's The Independents. Kmele Foster, stated that Bolton is "happy to install dictators" around the world "because he’s not concerned with totalitarian impulses or human-rights violations."
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@Robert B
We are extremely good, as noted from the past. We have secret armies go into countries who threaten to become more socialistic (NOT communistic). We then leave when dictatorship or a murderous military takes over. This was done in Guatemala, El Salvatore, Nicaragua, Vietnam, Iraq. Cuba was speared and I believe Kennedy got killed because he did not sent troops to fight the Russians and Castro. When will we do something for our own citizens? We are brainwashed to believe that good healthcare, free education from grade school to University, decent housing (as are a norm in most western civilized societies ) is frowned upon here, somehow is bad for us.
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@Robert B: Matt Welch got wrong. Bolton is a chicken hawk. He was a big supporter of the Vietnam War, but his mouth was nowhere to be seen in Vietnam.
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The US military can fly in tens of thousands of troops within a month. So the idea that it isn't capable of withdrawing 2000 in a month is rather ridiculous. A general who suggests that should be fired for incompetence.
Besides that: it has been known for a long a time that withdrawal of troops is a desire of Trump. Also ISIS is almost defeated and the official line has for a long time been that the troops should be withdrawn as soon as that was achieved. So if the military planners don't have plans ready for the occasion they are incompetent.
Of course one could argue that some problems need to be solved first - the most important being the fate of the Kurds. But in that case the military should have provided Trump with a list of options: what can be done now and what should wait until a solution for the Kurds is found. In contrast the present behavior of the military looks more like obstruction. Insubordination that is.
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@Wim Roffel
I guess you have little experience with military matters. Of course we could airlift 2,000 troops out of Syria in a very short time. BUT what happens to all the heavy equipment and lovely, sophisticated electronics that are left there? These must be stabilized, cleaned and packed for shipment. They must be counted first, to make sure that nothing is left behind for ISIS to use. Or do we leave it all to Assad? the Kurds? the Free Syria forces? Will whoever gets their hands on this equipment then use it against us - or sell it to someone who would. I imagine that Russia would love to have some of our electronics, if only to compare with what they have or to see how they can hack it.
It's more than just evacuating troops with their backpacks and MREs.
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This incident is the clearest window into Trump's decision making process that we have seen to date. Precarious indeed. Mr. Mcconnell, its time to curb your dog!
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Now Trump will personally blame Bolton for keeping him from fulfilling his promise to his base.
Poor Donny, so boxed in by his advisors!
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John Bolton is not the sharpest crayon in the box and sadly, as he now realizes, he's working for a president who is a few sandwiches short of a picnic.
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The really scary thing is, is that if we are dependent on Bolton's judgement and integrity to control Trump we are in for some serious problems!
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The media's politeness is allowing Trump and Bolton to slowly slip into the robe of their aspirations, a bareface, neofascist dictatorship.
We complain and point with pride to the newly elected Democrats and their ability to block the Republican Congressional activities, yet here we are with a Democrat from Minnesota mimicking Trump and the media stating that the Republican support of their far right-hawks weakening , but no real evidence to prove the statement.
Despite our protestations, chaos, one of the choice elements of anti-democratic revolutionaries, has advanced across the landscape and those responsible for it are alive and well, no matter how threatened they may seem.
Meanwhile, the Democrats disorganize themselves for a wild popularity contest to replace the Trumpian leadership in 2020. That should be a shoo-in, but its certainty is slowly slipping away in the self-made chaos of our own opposition.
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Trump calls the National Security Adviser “Mike Bolton.”
Maybe he should call on John Pence to go to Syraq and withdraw troops from Iran.
I hope someone makes sure that Trump ingests his favorite burgers via his mouth only.
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@chickenlover
John Pence scares me too. He is a fundamentalist with his very conservative views. God help us if he gets in. Both of them need to go if we want to save our democracy for all.
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John Bolton, whose personality does not lend itself the management processes, is falling victim to his own creation - a personality focused White House where he saw himself as the leading light. Overwhelmed by his success in crafting the unilateral sanctions imposed on Iran without the consent of Congress Bolton assumed he personally could sanction anyone - even the judges of the International Criminal Court. In a personality focused operation whoever the President talks to last determines policy. Rand Paul was followed by Erdogan and soon thereafter among multiple contradictory statements Trump said the U.S. will no longer be the policeman of the Middle East and Iran can do what it wants in Syria.
If the U.S. is not the policeman of the Middle East, on what grounds does the U.S. impose sanctions on companies doing legitimate business in Iran that do not involve any U.S. content? The Trump sanctions are not authorized by the Security Council. The multilateral response to Iran's nuclear weapons plans is the JCPOA authorized by SC Resolution 2231. The IAEA continues to confirm that Iran has remained compliant.
U.S. national security policy cannot be run as if the U.S. is a sovereign citizen with no responsibilities to the wider community. Iran's destabilizing actions affect all members including allies like the EU. If the U.S. is not the world's cop, it needs to exercise leadership for effective action thru the Security Council, recognized by UN Charter to manage crises.
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@Vid Beldams
The US is growing weaker every day in the UN Security Council, thanks to the machinations of Nikki Haley and inability to get along with the other P4. With an acting ambassador in the US seat, there is even less positive influence in the chamber, which is what Bolton wants. That leaves a bigger vacuum than ever for P2, Ru/China, to swoop in. The destructive tendencies of Haley and Bolton at the UN have also left it weaker when it is dealing with countries that are abusing its citizens and are corrupt: Guatemala is latest example. That is Haley's legacy, aided and abetted by Bolton.
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The military-industrial-Congressional-foreign-policy complex supports endless wars because they profit from them, get elected because of them, and get big jobs because of them.
We the people don't need these wars. We need health care, education, maintenance, science, and a better environment.
The United States is surrounded by two oceans and friendly countries. We have thousands of nuclear weapons and over a million well-equipped soldiers on active duty. We don't need costly wars waged against groups who pose no real threat to this country.
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@Kevin Cahill
President Eisenhower correctly warned of the MIC in 1953.
When President Trump appointed a Boeing CEO, the MIC knew they'd be rolling in tax dollars until Trump is removed from office or constrained by Congress. So short answer, buy Boeing stock then vote Democratic in 2020.
Blue Tsunami Part II coming to a voting place near you soon. Sweeping the GOP from the White House and into a minority status in the Senate all of their own doing.
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@Question Everything Do I get that right? Buy Boeing and then cut their gravy train? You mean sell short? Just questioning everything.
the u.s. has a million soldiers on active duty?
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