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I think that Trump's team led by kelly are seeking to distance him from people like Bannon or Bolton.
This is bad news for cernovich, so he claims its a coup. But its not. It is just Trump listening to his new team.
I will reserve judgement on rather this new team will be good or not until I see actions.
But as a first sign with the increase of war in Afghanistan, its not looking good.
But I guess this is what the neocon and neolibs wanted judging from the praise Trump got from the MSM on his speech on more war in Afghanistan.
I will continue to be against nation building, no matter which party advocates it.
On July 10, the New York Times revealed that the Trump White House had recruited Erik Prince, the founder of the notorious private security firm Blackwater, and wealthy Trump backer Steve Feinberg, the owner of the high-profile military contractor DynCorp International, to “devise alternatives to the Pentagon’s plan to send thousands of additional troops to Afghanistan.” The story suggested that the president and his top advisers were dissatisfied with the military’s thinking on the conflict, the subject of an intense series of a consultations between senior military officers and Trump’s national security team over the last several months.
While the recruitment of Prince and Feinberg, who are close friends, was intended to provide new options for winning the 16-year war, the administration has been hesitant to describe their role. Both men are controversial for their advocacy of the U.S. government contracting out the Afghan conflict to a private company that would build Afghan state capacity, provide logistical support to the Afghan army, and battle the Taliban. At the very least, the new arrangement would mean a lighter footprint for the U.S. military (or perhaps none at all); at the most it would mean that corporate America, and not the U.S. government, would be responsible for running an overseas war—a kind of “War Inc.”
“Dyncorp has its hands all over Afghanistan anyway, and I mean they’re just everywhere,” a high-level former intelligence officer who is privy to the administration’s thinking told me, “so [senior White House adviser Steve] Bannon and crew figure, ‘What the hell, let’s just turn the whole country over to them.’”
“That Trump’s people would even think that McMaster or Mattis would listen to Prince shows just how tone-deaf they are,” a senior military officer told me after the Times piece was published. “If there’s one name guaranteed to get H.R.’s back up it’s Erik Prince. How you can’t know that is beyond me.” Even so, Bannon and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner insisted that McMaster read a May 31 Wall Street Journal oped written by Prince entitled “The MacArthur Model for Afghanistan.” The president read the article and liked it, McMaster was told.
In fact, Prince’s op-ed read like a plea for new business for his Hong Kong-based Frontier Services Group (FSG), which would supplant the U.S. military in providing “reliable logistics and aviation support” to Afghan security forces, monitor a new effort to exploit Afghanistan’s vast mineral holdings, be charged with building Afghan state capacity and, not least, oversee an aggressive air campaign targeting the Taliban. Prince suggested that a “viceroy,” a Douglas MacArthur-like figure, be appointed to oversee the effort. In sum, Prince’s plan would turn Afghanistan over to an American version of Britain’s famed East India Company—which, as Prince wrote, “prevailed in the region” for 250 years by relying on private military units. It was a neat package: the Prince model would save the U.S. billions of dollars, help build Afghanistan’s economy, and settle the conflict by forcing the Taliban back to the negotiating table.
originally posted by: theantediluvian
a reply to: carewemust
At this point, I think we may need to operate under the assumption that any appearances by "the President" are actually body doubles under the control of the generals.
originally posted by: Gryphon66
Trump cultists brains* are quite obviously exploding ... "we must believe Breitbart, but Breitbart is being mean to the President so ... so ... so . [STACK OVERFLOW -- error code 5%43ABC].
*Actual brains may vary, offer not available in GA, TX, AL, MS, FL, TN, LA, SC, NC
originally posted by: XAnarchistX
Key words "Brietbart" and "Cernovich", might as well throw in some Alex Jones
originally posted by: Iostsheep
a reply to: theantediluvian
Iol "white genocide"
...like holocaust? wtf does that even mean?
In Europe and South Africa maybe but America? Goes to show he was a moron for being a liberal to begin with and just because he's a republican, it appears nothing has changed.. he is just identify he is white and was on wrong team of the racewar myth.
originally posted by: Gryphon66
a reply to: olaru12
This is one of about 50 reasons why anyone that I hear saying "well Alex Jones says" is immediately written off.
originally posted by: Asktheanimals
originally posted by: Gryphon66
*Actual brains may vary, offer not available in GA, TX, AL, MS, FL, TN, LA, SC, NC
How is this comment any different than racism?
It's bigotry based on geography.
Some people still aren't over the Civil War apparently.
originally posted by: DanteGaland
originally posted by: Asktheanimals
originally posted by: Gryphon66
*Actual brains may vary, offer not available in GA, TX, AL, MS, FL, TN, LA, SC, NC
How is this comment any different than racism?
It's bigotry based on geography.
Some people still aren't over the Civil War apparently.
Bigotry ISN'T racism...
Racism DOES include a certain level of bigotry.
They aren't interchangeable.
False equivalency.