“The hell with it,” Trump said, recounting the scene with his aides to a West Virginia crowd last week. That was the message that an irritated Trump delivered to his national security team last week in a classified meeting about US involvement in Syria. During the Afghanistan meeting, aides went out of their way to make it appear that they were considering Trump’s perspective with an even hand. Of course Trump isn’t the only president whom aides have tried to roll, particularly when it comes to national security. Obama suspected the military of leaking details of National Security Council deliberations to press him into accepting a bigger troop surge.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer April 09, 2018 04:30 UTC