I’m not comfortable with the idea of inserting a political strategist into the realm of national security decision making. Had Obama done something like this I think many of us would have expressed concern about ideological issues influencing a sober analysis of foreign threats and developing practical strategies for countering them.
Bannon should be “in the loop” of course, but best to insulate the national security decision making process from political influences in my humble opinion. We need clear, objective thinking uninhibited by politics.
Your comfort was not part of the consideration.
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Bannon was a Naval Officer. Daughter West Point grad. Shut up.
>Bannon should be “in the loop” of course, but best to insulate the national security decision making process from political influences in my humble opinion. We need clear, objective thinking uninhibited by politics.
If you haven’t noticed our greatest national security threat is the left and their terrorist buddies. It’s a good move.
Screw sober analysis of ‘foreign threats’. THEY need to be feeling the ones threatened from here on out, and analyzing how to avoid pissing US off.
Duh.
This isn't Obama. This is Trump. Of course ideology should color our analysis of foreign threats. When Obama was president, radical Islamic fundamentalists were our friends and Christian Russia was the enemy. Now we have a different ideology and, hopefully, a different threat assessment.
“Had Obama done something like this I think many of us would have expressed concern about ideological issues influencing a sober analysis of foreign threats and developing practical strategies for countering them.”
David Axelrod. A sad precedent but true.