Since before he took office Trump was besieged within his own administration by a hostile phalanx of Democrats, almost all of the GOP establishment, the federal law enforcement and intelligence nomenklatura, and the media. It doesn’t help that his Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, seems to think he has nothing better to do than crank up the civil forfeiture machine and give states a hard time for playing fast and loose with federal marijuana laws, while a criminal anti-constitutional conspiracy operates under his nose at the Department of Justice and the FBI in cahoots with elements of the US and British intelligence agencies.[1]
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I once had a job in the Army to meet and escort a visiting general who came around periodically to inspect our unit. I asked him what he looks for and he replied simply that he looks to see if people are doing their jobs.
It’s not complicated but now, however, good luck seeing it asked What is your job and are you doing it? Police won’t shut down AntiFa but collude with it instead. Teachers teach fairy tales. College presidents won’t defend free speech. Politicians won’t control spending. The media promotes absurdities and will not warn against the Muslim threat, call attention to black refusal to get a grip, or point out all the negative aspect of immigration. They sure as hell won’t crank up a thimbleful of skepticism about chemical weapon attacks and our crazy warmaking wherever it pleases us to force foreigners to act like people in Lincoln, Nebraska, the gold standard for sensible human thinking.
Trump won’t put U.S. troops on the border at home but ensures they’re on the job on the Afghan border. He’s supposed to be president but he acts like he has no more constitutional power than a visiting journalist from Bulgaria when he complains about Sessions and Rosenstein. Simply ensuring that the dangerous phenomenon of an “independent” counsel stays within the bounds of his marching orders seems beyond his capabilities. Do we even know if there is any limit on what Mueller can investigate?
Trump simply conveys no strategic or constitutional awareness. The extent of his pushback against the Deep State appears to be nothing more than his Twitter output and his periodic rallies where you will hear no precise analysis of the forces arrayed against him and us.
Still, that said, Donald Trump was the only presidential candidate who communicated an awareness of fundamental problems and any kind of anger at America’s being everybody’s bitch. Nonetheless, more people in our country have got to do what they’re paid to do and more managers need to do the managing that they’re paid to do.
Notes
[1] "Will Someone In Washington Play The Ace Of Spades Before November?" By James George Jatras, ZeroHedge, 9/2/18 (links removed).
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Jake Morphonios referred to the ISIS-controlled territory Raqqa bombing by the USA, and allies. I am trying to find the source of truth over the dilemma where USA both supports and encourages ISIS but bombed them and bombed Raqqa to oblivion. Jake's Christianity is fine but I think it is leading him to Trump derangement syndrome. My job description is to look after my woman, and daughter, a couple of friends and get to be King of New Zealand very soon.
Reference to your zero hedge reference
Conditions for the USA to stop terrorisng Syria
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‘First: Iran’s full withdrawal from the Syrian south.
‘Washington: withdrawal from the [al-Tanf] and eastern Euphrates against three conditions, including giving us a share of oil.
‘Second: obtaining written assurances that US companies will receive a share of the oil sector in eastern Syria.
‘Third, to provide the Syrian side with the Americans with full data on the terrorist groups and their members, including the numbers of foreign victims of these groups and those who survived, and those who have the possibility of returning to Western countries, considering that “the terrorist threat is intercontinental, we can get hurt in the service of international security”.
‘The Syrian response to this generous offer could easily be termed as dismissive. Assad has no reason to guarantee the U.S. anything after its shameful display over the past seven years. [ . . . ]
‘Trump is surrounded by vipers and neocons (or do I repeat myself) who, despite his better instincts, fill him with nonsense which he then acts on without much reflection.
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So it reads the way I think it is >> you can do what you like in USA Trump but outside your borders [ hahah ] you do what we tell you.
Good luck with that king deal. :-)
Yes, there's a strange absence of presidential authority where foreign policy is concerned. It's as though someone has something over Trump go get him to go along with our ghastly Syrian adventure.
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