President Donald Trump kicked off Thursday with a series of tweets that all but accused Hillary and Bill Clinton of corruption and accepting of millions of dollars from Russia. He also slammed his predecessor, Barack Obama, for knowing about a deal that gave a Russian state-run company control of 20 percent of the uranium in the United States, but not shutting it down. “.
Anything that Trump brings up concerning the Clinton’s is a distraction. It’s meaningless nonsense except to Trump’s base of conspiracy minded right wingers.
What Trump is doing is trying to deflect our attention away from what’s actually important.
Like how and why four American soldiers died in Niger.
As Maslow said, “I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.”
The Pentagon receives far too many tax dollars.
$7 trillion plus over the past ten years.
With that money the military is doing too many things in too many countries.
We have combat troops in 146 of the world’s 196 countries.
Since Trump took office the Pentagon has been operating without an integrated, cohesive strategy in place.
Because Tillerson and the State Department have been “castrated” the Pentagon is, by default, making our foreign policy.
In early September, as is customary, military commanders in Niger went to US Ambassador, Eunice Reddick, to get permission to go ahead with a specific military operation.
Ambassador Reddick told them no as is her right.
On October 4, the military conducted the unauthorized mission on their own volition which resulted in the deaths of four American soldiers.
FUBAR