Just remember this!
Posted on 04/09/2017 4:48:01 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Apr 9th, 2017
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, national security adviser; Sens. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Ben Cardin, D-Md.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Nikki Haley, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations; Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Tim Kaine, D-Va.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Secretary of State Rex Tillerson; Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Tillerson; Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla; Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif.
STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Haley; Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii.
“This is deeply troubling.”
And troubling is more than concerning.
Good catch,the only thing left for Wall Ass to do is leave.
Kinda hard to believe anything the norks say,kinda like dems....
Unless you absolutely hate President Trump with every fiber there is no point in watching Wallace.
To allow Kristal to say everything he does is disastrous was ridiculous yet he laughed as if it was brilliance. They both should be on MSDNC.
Nikki has been a very pleasant surprise. Extremely articulate and has backbone.
There's a new sheriff in town
Goober should have been blown out of office years ago SC has some serious problems.
Gotta love it Sleep eyed F.Chuck with a terrible infected growth on his chin....
Agreed,completely different from how she ruled SC.
Only watched Fox to see how Wallass would treat McMaster. Wallass started with the premise that there is no coherent Syrian strategy and McMaster deftly handled the “questions” regarding the lack of strategy.
On to the the next guests, and same premise given to them that there is no coherent Syrian strategy.
I liked how McMaster answered the question of why that carrier was heading towards the North Korean coastline. McMaster said “why would we not send it there?”. Wallass seemed annoyed by that answer.
Wallass also tried to imply Bannon was removed by McMaster and he did not fall for it.
Bush 41, Clinton, Bush 43, and Obama have laid the foundation for what exists today. Carter gave us the Iran legacy that we are dealing with today. Both situations have gotten progressively worse making them more difficult to resolve today. Peace in our time.
Dems trying to be relevant in a Trump world.
Exactly some would say they all have the same employer as well.But you are correct.Up until Trump the plan has been chaos all over and it worked well. The nonsense ends with the election of Donald Trump.Will it be a smooth transition on a worldwide basis?Probably not. Will Trump do the best job he can? Undoubtedly.
You’re a little closer to it than I am, Fishtalk. But can you explain why Haley seemed to be such a GOPe stooge, if you will, as governor of SC, but now presents such a different and bolder profile?
Does she share the neocon gene with Graham and McCain, combined with the ambition of wanting to round out her own presidential resume with this spot while we have a GOP president?
Or is it one of a coherent whole politician whom I should take much more seriously as a potential future president — or at very least VP running mate?
She presents much more strongly than Jindal, for example, when he was expected to be a great ethnic hope for the GOP.
No flies on Putin and his team.
I agree with you, Fishtalk, re: the appearances in Syria. My sense is that beyond the Iranian connection, other key players have been eyeing Syria for oil and gas pipelines for decades. Similarly, they have thus been talking about regime change and/or some sort of partition for decades in order to make that viable.
Russia of course would not welcome the competition for selling into Europe.
Going for the moment with the unconfirmed reports of the past week, Bannon was a holdout against this increased intervention and McMaster is the key guy pushing it. Also, Ivanka is the one who convinced her father to intervene. Yet, Jared reportedly, like Bannon, doesn’t want to see the US pulled into another costly (on all levels) ground war there. We know that Trump has long been against such ground interventions.
So sticking with that face-value acceptance of unconfirmed reports, it would cynically seem reasonable to assume that the Deep State’s “Assad gassing his own people” is the gambit that works to bring Trump along. Trump and his family aren’t for the greater intervention that the likes of McMaster and McCain are itching for, so more gassed babies could be seen as the ticket to inch them along into it, bit by bit.
One thing Steve Pieczenik said this week about that is that the US only states such intentions of regime change when they don’t think they have the power to actually effect such.
If they do think they have such power, they just keep quiet and execute on it.
Interesting theory, thanks. Really hard to know how many layers of intrigue to assign to such developments in the region.
I really agree with your essay, bray—except for the idea that Trump has reached such stature for shooting some missiles at readily-replaced planes.
Similar to such launchings by Clinton and Obama, for example, they were done after a critical heads up had been given and to significant domestic political benefit.
I do think world leaders are still trying to make sense of Trump, and that perceived unpredictability makes them pay attention, but I don’t think such a staged show of a few missiles conveys much.
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