Trump's irritation with top aides grows over Iran strategy

CNN ^ | May 16, 2019 | Kevin Liptak, Jeremy Diamond, Jim Acosta, Kaitlan Collins and Kylie Atwood

[Innovative]

President Donald Trump has become irritated at an emerging impression his hawkish national security advisers are marching him closer to war with Iran despite his isolationist tendencies, according to people familiar with the matter.

Instead, Trump is signaling his intent to speak with the Iranians as tensions rise in the Persian Gulf, and his national security team has taken steps they hope could facilitate a new diplomatic opening.

The likelihood of such an opening appears slim. But Trump has raised concern with the heightened rhetoric, believing a large-scale military intervention with Iran would be devastating to him politically, people familiar with the situation said. The President has told members of his team that starting a new conflict would amount to breaking his campaign promise to wind down foreign entanglements. And he's chafed at suggestions his aides, led by national security adviser John Bolton, are somehow leading him to war.

[Innovative]

Trump made it clear that he does not want to go to war.

But his actions of sending ships to the gulf show that he is willing if there are no other solutions.

This makes a lot of sense.

[blam]

I thought Bolton was chosen because he is a hard-liner. No secrets there.

[rockinqsranch]

It took five (5) count ‘em CNN “journalists” to write this propaganda.

[steveyp]

Yes. No troops. Bomb them back 50 years. No rebuilding $. Fund resistance. No troops. Every few hundred years you have to send the musselmen back to their preferred age of development. Watch them recover with wariness and readiness to reapply the lesson in time.

[Sacajaweau]

Dear Media....Here’s a bone for you. Go at it!! Regards,
DJT, POTUS.

[Responsibility2nd]

More Bull Cheese from CNN.

They refuse to see that aides like Bolton are necessary for the carrot and stick approach for diplomacy.

Obama never took tough measures. Unless you call giving Iran 150 Billion Dollars “tough love”.

Bolton is doing his duty.

[dfwgator]

Carrot and Stick.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

A byline with five CNN employees.

[DanielRedfoot]

CNN is Fake News!

[jeffc]

CNN honestly expects real people to believe their drivel? Or are they just singing to their own choir?

[Responsibility2nd]

A byline with five CNN employees.

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Well CNN is laying off employees. Maybe this is all they have left?

[JonPreston]

I can’t wait until DJT boots Bolton out the door.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

“Obama never took tough measures”

His foreign policy was to pack a jar of Vaseline with him.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

“Obama never took tough measures”

His foreign policy was to pack a jar of Vaseline with him.

[Responsibility2nd]

Is there an echo in here? (lol)

[BitWielder1]

Yea, CNN, real credible.

If Trump was steering a ship and made even the tiniest course correction, the CNN headline would read:
"Trump Doesn't Know Where He's Going, Officers On Bridge In Tense Turmoil."

[FreedomPoster]

Hopefully this is a “if you would have peace, prepare for war” situation, and the Iranians don’t do anything too stupid. And that Bolton is there in a bad cop role, with Trump/Pompeo as the good cops.

[DarthVader]

CNN = Fake News = Always view with skepticism

[proust]