The recent Muslim ban debacle exposes Drumbpf’s modus operandi on whose policy advice he’s taking.
Like Nixon circumvented his SOS Rodgers and SOD Laird with National Security advisor Kissinger, Putin’s Poodle elevated anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim, pro-Russian, Dugganist Bannon to a seat on the National Security Council to block out SOD Mattis and SHS Kelly.
Mattis and Kelly are LIVID !
Get the popcorn ready. This is going to get, veeeery interesting.
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terrymcginty says
Bannon could be ticking Mattis and Kelly is n purpose so that he can get rid of them as soon as possible.
The mindset of the authoritarian leader leaves no room for any kind of team of rivals nor independent thought.
jconway says
And Mattis doesn’t seem to be particularly happy. He wanted to bring onboard Michelle Flournoy, Sec. Clinton’s UDOS and Sec. Carter’s UDOD, and had the pick personally rejected by Bannon and Conway. Now he is given just 60 days to come up with some magical plan to eradicate ISIS without any additional US forces. Not sure how that will work. I don’t see either of these two lasting the full first term, and probably not even the first year.
Christopher says
…and I definitely think any person on the NSC should be subject to the advice and consent of the Senate.
centralmassdad says
Each president structures it a little differently. President Bush made a point of excluding Karl Rove because he thought that purely political operatives should be excluded from national security policy.
I’m not sure that I object to the inclusion of political advisors, because the idea that national security policy is divorced from politics has always been a fiction. I object to Bannon, but only for the reasons that I object to the entirety of this anti-American administration.
What is more shocking than the inclusion of a political guy is the EXCLUSION of the Director of National Intelligence and the Charman of the Joint Chiefs from the most senior parts of the NSC.
jconway says
And ominously so.