If President Trump had given them amy more time, we would've seen chemical attacks "by Assad" in Syria....same old game. They'd gotten even more assured with Bolton in the Administration, I suspect.
Is President Trump finally listening to his true supporters? God, I hope so. He should just do everything he can get done and let the HOR play their impeachment games. If President Trump keeps firm and doing the things he campaigned on, it'll go a long way toward draining the swamp. I'm wondering if a certain relative in the inner circle is advocating Deep State policies, either out of ignorance or being seriously compromised.
Prayers are with President Trump...to get the things done he intended to achieve.
“McGurk and Mattis are Deep State operatives”
I think it is more the case that they are just so heavily invested in what they have been doing for so long, that they can not bear to change radically from it. They are too fixed in their thinking, too confirmed in their beliefs, and too wedded to the people they have been dealing with. Perhaps just too risk averse - that is the common disease in bureaucracies - analysis paralysis.
It is harder for an expert to change their opinion, than a novice - that’s just human nature.
This is a sudden and shockingly bold (and risky) shift in strategy. All the players in the region are likely scrambling to adapt - not just our old war dogs.
We can only hope that President Trump has the big picture/long term in mind. It might be part of a wider strategy, to settle the Mid-East in a new status quo, with a new Iranian regime and a reformed Saudi regime cutting off material and ideological of the support to militants and extremists, and with normal relations with Israel. Turkey is another issue.
Wish I knew what HOR meant.