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Allies, or pentagon advisers. thats what policymakers call process, but that isnt a reason," he says, "to reject the policy shift." david lunker goes on to point out, suspicious process is good, but it doesnt guarantee wisdom." endir ra, i just thought this was an interesting piece and im curious your reaction to it, because essentially, what hes arguing is the process as it commonly plays out, he seems to be arguing, sort of inevitably leads presidents to defer to military voices, to defer to l...

Increasingly futile conflicts in syria and afghanistan. moreover, the president now appears more determined to deliver on his promise of an america first foreign policy, even if it means rejecting the expert advice of his generals. ever since his campaign, trump has advocated for a diminished role abroad, saying the u.s. should get more out of its commitments overseas. >> our failed establishment has brought us nothing but poverty at home and disaster overseas. this is what we have, disaster. th...

Decisions appear to have been made in an impulsive way without consultation with congress, allies, or pentagon advisers. thats what policymakers call process, but that isnt a reason," he says, "to reject the policy shift." he goes on to point out that process is good but it doesnt guarantee wisdom. endera, i just thought this was an interesting piece and im curious your reaction to it, because essentially, what hes arguing is the process as it commonly plays out, he seems to be arguing, sort of ...

The troops will be leaving syria , the pentagon says more than 30 airstrikes have been launched in eastern syria killing hundreds of isis fighters. more evidence the terrorist arm isnt quite defeated u.s. officials warn isis and the ideology has spread to other commitments including europe an africa where terror attacks hav been munchedun in recent days. in iraq, not all u.s. troops u.s. artillery on the border with syria has been shelling stis positions around the clock in eastern syria. the la...

We have a special representative, our us representative. if anyone can sort that out it will be him. donald trump argument enforces not long after he did so in syria after 2017. it may be time to reshuffle but we are not pooling our military presence either from iraq, syria or afghanistan. we have huge airpower, surveillance, special ops ready to engage in any point in time and key to it all, training afghan forces to carry out their own security as we have done with iraq. moving the troop level...

Government, from trumps foreign policy, from his attacks on our allies. this is exactly what the russians have wanted for years. confusion, chaos, an america that is not willing to stick to its commitments, willing to turn on the kurds, willing to turn on those that theyve made promises to. so i think part of this has to be his relationship with russia. >> hans, jennifers not the only one whos brought that up, brought that idea up. but maybe the president said something in a closed-door meeting ...

Negotiation, i talk to people around me well go in and give them hell. no, no. figure out what do they want? when we lead the offense why will they think boy, we got the best of them. thats how you negotiate. yet its just not in donald trumps psyche at all. talk about again, go back to nato. talk about all the other treaties that weve signed in the past. it always, we wanted to be a win-win, just so, again, were not day traders but were in it for the long run with these diplomatic alliances. >> ...

>> i think its clear that the president is committed to making sure were not overstretched around the globe and not taking on too many commitments that leave us stretched beyond our means. on the other hand, what was troubling about what he said in iraq was that he framed our participation in the coalition there as some sort of transactional thing. it was something we were doing that we were somehow suckered into and that we werent doing what we were doing in syria and iraq in pursuit of core na...

Give the president credit for doing the right thing. i wish had he done it earlier and we did not have to shame him into doing it. after a weekend of sitting home and being petty and petulant, unfortunately at this moment where you could have presidential grace and leadership on display, he chose to be petty and petulant. standing in front of troops describing americas commitments as being suckers is really deeply offensive when you think about it. not only did he lie to the troops and politiciz...

As being suckers is deeply offensive when you think about it. not only did he lie to the troops and politicize the events, lie about salary increases but to describe american commitments as being suckers. you need to step back and reflect on the crass transactionalism of the president of the united states would imply men and women that served their country in the middle east, perhaps given their lives, were suckers. and this is the tone deafness that he has. to your point, yes, i think there are...