And this high-level sniping is taking place as some Republicans in Congress seem to be more openly challenging the president, at least on foreign policy.
The New York Times framed the conflict yesterday, and much of the media following its lead:
"They think pulling out of Syria and Afghanistan would be a debacle. They think North Korea cannot be trusted. They think the Islamic State is still a threat to America. They think Russia is bad and NATO is good.
"The trouble is their president does not agree."
And here is how he expressed his disagreement:
"The Intelligence people seem to be extremely passive and naive when it comes to the dangers of Iran. They are wrong! They are testing Rockets (last week) and more, and are coming very close to the edge. There [sic] economy is now crashing, which is the only thing holding them back. Be careful of Iran."
The kicker: "Perhaps Intelligence should go back to school!"
Indeed, it would! Imagine what would happen to Lockheeb Martin and Halliburton stock if there weren't any more wars! And poor multinational profits means no more bribes campaign contributions to the political class! My god, our entire system would collapse! Truly, we need more foreign wars.
Leo Hill
BUMP
Christian Scott
NEWS BUMP.
Zachary Johnson
These the same intel agencies that claimed Saddam had weapons of mass destruction.
Xavier Parker
The intel agencies kept on saying he didn't have WMDs, it was Cheney that kept on pressuring them for the results he wanted.
Andrew Rodriguez
It was literally Bush's own personal "intelligence" group who fabricated it based on the testimony of a single "eye witness" who lied to get american favors.
Jordan Edwards
It's like if say Jared Kushner as Trump's personal aide on all things intelligence told Trump that he needs to give lots of money to Israel because somebody told him Israel needs it or else terror will take over the mideast, and Trump does it, ignoring all the intelligence agencies who tell him otherwise.
Alexander Murphy
it'd 4d chess though, Trump is completely lying because he is the alliance leader and he's completely ineffctive because it only looks that way, it will look like Trump fucked up until one day after you die
Besides, maybe Zero Hedge is right and the Military Industrial Comples doesn't even need there to be a war to survive anymore