the reign of hurricane trump is a perfect illustration of how those we 'elect' aren't in charge as the following piece by hornberger makes perfectly clear;
President Trump excited many non-interventionists when he publicly
announced that he was ordering an immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops
from Syria. Quite quickly, however, Trump bent to pressure and agreed to
extend the withdrawal deadline to four months. That caused me to write
an article on January 2 entitled “It’s Too Soon to Celebrate Trump’s Syria Withdrawal.”
Then came the stunning announcement by National Security Advisor John
Bolton declaring that no U.S. troops would be withdrawn from Syria
until ISIS has been totally defeated and only after Turkey has promised
not to attack Kurdish forces, which have assisted Trump with his Syria
intervention. Bolton’s announcement necessarily means that Trump’s
deadline has now been extended far beyond the four-month extension.
Indeed, for all practical purposes it implies that U.S. troops are going
to remain in Syria indefinitely, the very thing that Trump initially
said he was going to end immediately.
The question naturally arises: Who’s in charge here — Trump or
Bolton? Wouldn’t one ordinarily think that it’s the president, not the
person working for the president, who gives the orders with respect to
U.S. troops?
The real answer is that neither Bolton nor Trump is in charge. The
entity in charge of U.S. foreign policy is the national-security
establishment, which consists of the Pentagon, the CIA, and the NSA.
They, not Trump or Bolton, decide whether and when U.S. troops will be
withdrawn from Syria or anywhere else. They are clearly the ones who
have decided that U.S. troops shall remain in Syria.........https://www.fff.org/2019/01/10/president-bolton-or-worse/
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