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In reply to the discussion: Re: Comey and Mueller [View all]Hekate
(90,552 posts)29. "The generals" are an interesting proposition. McMasters has apparently been sucked in ...
...to Trump's worldview, or liberated to express his own now that he is in the overtly political sphere -- that is, the world as the US has tried to shape it since the end of WW II is not interconnected and co-operative, but really an inherently hostile place of competition in a zero-sum game. In other words, it confirmed my suspicion that everyone with a good reputation that Trump pulls into his orbit gets dirty one way or another.
Like you, I hope there is in the Pentagon a core group with an understanding that Trump is unstable, even insane, and that extreme caution must be their byword.
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I have absolutely no doubt that Comey would have done the exact same thing had Clinton
StevieM
Jun 2017
#20
"The generals" are an interesting proposition. McMasters has apparently been sucked in ...
Hekate
Jun 2017
#29