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Fully understand just how remarkable today’s exchange with Colombia
X ^ | 1/26/2005 | @CynicalPublius

Posted on 01/26/2025 4:25:14 PM PST by AndyJackson

To fully understand just how remarkable today’s exchange with Colombia was, you need to understand how Washington DC has traditionally worked through these sorts of issues, and the different way it works now under Trump.

I’ll illustrate.

Traditional Approach:


1. Colombia announces it will not take our repatriation flights.
2. On Monday, the State Department convenes an interagency task force with DoD, NSC, DEA, INS, ICE, Commerce, Treasury and Homeland Security.
3. The task force meets for four days and develops a position paper.
4. The position paper is rejected by the Secretary of State, who is unhappy that insufficient equity considerations are built into the process.
5. The task force reconvenes a week later to redevelop three new, equity-centric courses of action and create a new position paper.
6. The process is delayed a week because Washington DC gets three inches of snow.
7. SecState approves the new position paper for interagency circulation, and considerable input is received from the heads of other departments so the task force must reconvene.
8. The original three proposed responsive courses of action are scrapped in favor of a new, fourth course of action that achieves the worst aspects of the three prior courses of action but satisfies the interagency.
9. Someone in State who disagrees leaks to the Washington Post, who writes a story about how ineffective the Presidential administration is.
10. The White House Chief of Staff sets up a session three days later to brief the President, who approves the new fourth course of action.
11. Over a month after the issue is first raised, the State Department Public Affairs Officer holds a press conference announcing that Colombia has agreed to try to send fewer criminals into the US and everyone declares victory.

Trump Approach:


1. Colombia announces it will not take our repatriation flights.
2. After a par-5 third hole where he goes one under par, Trump uses his iPhone to post on social media as to how the USA will destroy Colombia’s economy if they do not do what the USA demands.
3. By the time Trump gets to the par-4 sixth hole, Colombia’s President has agreed to repatriate all the illegal Colombians in his own plane, which he will pay for.
4. Trump finishes three under par and goes to the clubhouse for a Diet Coke where he posts a gangsta AI image of himself and the new FAFO Doctrine.
5. Winning.

See the difference? It’s called LEADERSHIP.

....

One of the major complaints that LTC (Ret.) Alexander "Chow Thief" Vindman had about Trump was that he "went against the interagency."


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: colombia; columbia; despot; fafo; gustavopetro; hostages; lindayepes; retaliation; tariffs; tariffsd; trump
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Bro knows too much about the interagency. Most people have no clue what the interagency process is. @CynicalPublius is correct. It's the very definition of a CF.
1 posted on 01/26/2025 4:25:14 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: AndyJackson

Biden would be stumbling over his note cards assuming he wasn’t in bed by 4pm


2 posted on 01/26/2025 4:27:35 PM PST by janetjanet998 (Legacy media including youtube are the enemy of the people and must die)
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To: AndyJackson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRIB8qWHS-Q


3 posted on 01/26/2025 4:29:39 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: AndyJackson

FAFO Doctrine — perfect!


4 posted on 01/26/2025 4:30:57 PM PST by Yardstick
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To: AndyJackson

This piece is very funny. And explains a lot.


5 posted on 01/26/2025 4:37:32 PM PST by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: Yardstick

[Anonymous] Publius knows far too much about the interagency process. He is a ringer.


6 posted on 01/26/2025 4:37:35 PM PST by AndyJackson
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When Common Sense goes head-to-head with DEI Nonsense, the contrast is quite stark.

Yes, DOGE will save millions of dollars by removing these bureaucrat pencil pushers from the payroll.


7 posted on 01/26/2025 4:38:08 PM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
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That is beautiful!


8 posted on 01/26/2025 4:46:00 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (They were the FA-est of times, they were the FO-est of times.”.)
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To: AndyJackson
Brilliantly done by the author. Thanks for posting it. I love the "FAFO Doctrine". I am appropriating it!


9 posted on 01/26/2025 4:52:08 PM PST by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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To: buwaya

“This piece is very funny. And explains a lot.”

Yes, a very good piece. Probably closer to actual D.C. practice in the past than we would like to know.

With humor thrown in.


10 posted on 01/26/2025 4:52:22 PM PST by SharpRightTurn (“Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys” P.J. O’Rourke)
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The President doesn’t have to do the interagency.

The “interagency” needs to know its place. And be happy Trump gets things done, period. If not, resign because you’re not gonna be helping.


11 posted on 01/26/2025 4:54:42 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: AndyJackson

Great piece!


12 posted on 01/26/2025 4:58:01 PM PST by Inyo-Mono
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To: AndyJackson

13 posted on 01/26/2025 4:58:29 PM PST by Theoria
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Being in the DC slime pit since 1992 and having to deal with the lazy, high level, bureaucrats, I can attest to the first part and why the second is beyond a breath of fresh air.


14 posted on 01/26/2025 5:05:48 PM PST by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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This MADE MY DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hope it was sent to TRUMP!!


15 posted on 01/26/2025 5:07:35 PM PST by pollywog (" O thou who changest not....ABIDE with me")
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To: Secret Agent Man
The “interagency” needs to know its place.

The interagency is the scrapheap of agency human resources. It is where agencies recycle their trash.

16 posted on 01/26/2025 5:07:52 PM PST by AndyJackson
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In classic Trump style, he plays chess whole others play checkers.

And thus, Trumps checkmates Columbia in 5 moves, while Columbia is still tryin to jump over Trumps pawns.


17 posted on 01/26/2025 5:10:29 PM PST by OneVike ( Just another Christian waiting to go home)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

18 posted on 01/26/2025 5:12:09 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: AndyJackson

It’s great when you can combine business and pleasure


19 posted on 01/26/2025 5:12:41 PM PST by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going back!)
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20 posted on 01/26/2025 5:14:16 PM PST by Allegra (It’s MAGA time! )
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