old salt wrote: ↑Thu Sep 24, 2020 8:08 pm
jhu72 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 24, 2020 7:55 pm
seacoaster wrote: ↑Thu Sep 24, 2020 5:05 pm
old salt wrote: ↑Thu Sep 24, 2020 4:49 pm the difficulty experienced by a disgruntled National Security Advisor getting his gotcha book published before the election is not my idea of a national security issue. If Bolton had something important to say, he should not have passed up the impeachment hearings.
I'm looking forward to McMasters' book to read something substantive on national security. It's #1 on my dog park reading list.
It's amusing watching HR fend off the gotcha questions from "objective journalists", while crafting an answer that addresses real issues, ...while respectfully chiding retired flag officers who become political flacks.
Heard the NPR interview with McMaster. It wasn’t a gotcha question; the interviewer rightly wanted to know the NSA’s view of the competency and comportment of the Commander in Chief. He did nor ante up. That’s his call, and I, anyway, am content with that. But it is not prurient journalism or gotcha journalism to
want to know if the President has the brainpower and attention to detail to keep us safe. Particularly as all evidence seems to be to the contrary.
We already know the answer to the question.
Dead horse beating.
Everyone's already formed their opinion on that & it's not changing.
I'm interested in HR's take on national security issues since he left office.
He is surprisingly positive on the developing ME alliance.
He says Trump has strengthened NATO & been tougher on Russia than his predecessor, & tells how & why.
https://omny.fm/shows/the-untold-story- ... r-finished
McMaster is Galahad. It was his misfortune of timing to serve Uther rather than Arthur.
Actually, I don't think minds are permanently set on the question of Trump's competence.
Seems to me that minds of quite a few people have been changed about Trump as they've watched his performance on various fronts, and as we've heard more and more from those who worked with and near him in his Administration. And as we hear from more and more military and national security folks who have not been political creatures previously.
so, I think more and more serious people who felt aligned with Trump in some respects will increasingly be willing to admit that he's quite incompetent, and worse, corrupt. And dangerously so.
McMaster is trying very hard to focus on the issues he cares about beyond Trump and their specific conflicts. He wants to persuade those who have aligned with Trump as well as those who have not.
That's fine, as long as Trump loses as there are no more McMaster's left who will serve in a Trump Administration.