Posted on 02/20/2017 11:59:35 AM PST by GIdget2004
@potus has named Lt Gen HR McMaster as the Director of the National Security Council, Lt Gen Keith Kellogg remains NSC CoS
(Excerpt) Read more at twitter.com ...
I heard Rush Limbaugh say this before he went off the air. He said “Bolton didn’t get it but he will be involved somehow...”
I was hoping for this. Gen. McMaster was a Colonel when he lead his tanks during the famous Battle of 73 Easting during the first Iraq war. I’ve seen him interviewed and he seems extremely capable and he IS NOT a perfumed Pentagon Prince. OO-RAH!
Dereliction of Duty: Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam
by H. R. McMaster (Author)
I wonder what he got his silver star for.
I think this is the best book ever written on Vietnam. I have read many of them.
What an amazing choice !
Let’s see the media traitors try and pick on McMaster !
Pretty sure he was a Captain then.
Man, is there *anything* that Amazon could do that would be discreditable enough to stop conservatives from using it?
Better than H.R. Pufnstuf.
“Bolton didn’t get it but he will be involved somehow...”
Excellent. I never thought national security director was a good fit for Bolton, but I’d like to see him involved somehow in foreign relations in some way. I don’t always agree with him (especially his staunch opposition to partnering with Russia in the war against terror), but his perspective on other matters would be valuable.
My brother was in Vietnam. Also in the first Gulf war. U.S. Army.
Bill Kristol had fovorable things to say about this guy...I’m worried.
An absolutely fantastic book. McMaster will tell it like it is.
Read that book. It’s a great read. He posits in there how McNamara and Johnson, along with Gen Max Taylor and McGeorge Bundy played the JCS against one another to get what they wanted in Vietnam. The book showed me someone who is not afraid to criticize what he sees as wrong and improper. He wrote that in the 1990s at a time when I’m sure Taylor still had lots of friends in the defense industry along with McNamara who was still alive at the time.
Well, you can bet it was for something more than what John Kerry was claimed to have done.
Whaddyathink? Is this a step up, step down, or step across from the other guy who got canned?
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