Trump’s National Security Moves Smell Like a Purge

[corbe]

Trump’s National Security Moves Smell Like a Purge

By Steve Berman  |  January 29, 2017, 08:35am  |  @stevengberman


The word “purge” conjures up really dark and forbidding images. But President Trump removing the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and the Director of National Intelligence as standing members of the National Security Council smacks of maximum purginess.

Trump likes to hear diverse and oppositional views, but only when they’re invited. So the DNI and JCS now must be summoned to voice their unfiltered opinion. Replacing them on NSC is the Chief Strategist Stephen Bannon. The left–meaning the main stream media–already sees Bannon as Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel (that is Heinrich Himmler for the historically challenged). And this move gives them no reason to believe differently.

The stated reason for the change is to defeat ISIS.

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The White House thinks the changes will make the NSC more adaptive to modern threats. Trump said the changes would bring “a lot of efficiency and, I think, a lot of additional safety.”

It’s fine if Trump thinks the JSC and DNI’s time is better spent actually fighting ISIS versus attending White House meetings. And if ISIS is in fact crushed, Trump can claim that feather for his cap. But a political purge is a political purge, and Bannon has neither an operational intelligence nor a military portfolio. His portfolio is political.

This isn’t the first time Trump and Priebus have plotted a political purge, and this move has Priebus’ fingerprints all over it. Remember this from May?

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A directive from on high has come down at the RNC. Those who cannot back Trump need to pack up and get out by the end of the week.

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[endicom]

Bay of Pigs? Vietnam? Did the NSC counsel correctly in those matters? If so then did JFK and LBJ simply ignore the counsel?

[skeeter]

Since his predecessor thought strictly in terms of political ideology and made it a point to staff all levels of the executive branch with the like minded I have absolutely no problem with this at all.

[geronl]

He doesn't need a National Security Council, he has "the shows" and he has really good conversations with his brain sometimes too.

[geronl]

Since his predecessor thought strictly in terms of political ideology and made it a point to staff all levels of the executive branch with the like minded I have absolutely no problem with this at all.

So Trump being just like Obama is good?