In “‘You’re a bunch of dopes and babies’: Inside Trump’s stunning tirade against generals,” Carol D. Leonnig and Philip Rucker give us a chilling look at Trump’s relationship with the officers and experts who tried to convince him of the value of a cautious and thoughtful approach to world affairs. According to the authors, the military men and women began to explain the country’s long-term strategy to the president at a Pentagon meeting, only to have the President reject everything they said. He finally snapped at them “You’re a bunch of dopes and babies.”
Given that the world is a very complicated place, full of ambiguity, this is not a good thing.
Also interesting in the piece are hints that Trump seems to think that the American military should be rented out to the highest bidder, like mercenaries, rather than being reserved for our nation’s own interests and employed only in the most pressing of circumstances.
This, too, is not a good thing.
Anyway, give the article a glance when you have a chance. It’s is also an excerpt from a larger book which might be worth looking at.
After you’ve seen them, feel free to worry.
A lot.
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Michael Jay Tucker is a writer and journalist who has published material on topics ranging from the Jazz Age to computers. (Among his small claims to fame is that he interviewed Steve Jobs just after that talented if complicated man got kicked out of Apple, and just before the company’s Board came begging him to come back.)
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