Rajiv has the rare gift of being able to folk coast on shop palm details. He paints a broad pictures. He listens more than he takes. He speaks to generals frankly, but so do the grunts and the other minor characters who drive the plot of any major story. This month marks the tenth anniversary of george w. Bushs invasion of iraq. Nothing written or said better explains the resulting folly than rajivs book, life in the emrad city, the green zone. And yesterday again, rajiv, gives us detail, the new book, Little America. Right now these days, a shortterm sequester to find 80 billion, but over the next decade we have to scrape up three to five trillion, which is just about what we managed to squander on an iraq war that left so many dead and so many more people who hate us. So lets start there. In the front piece of imperial city, he quotes t. E. Lawrence who advised his british superiors in 1917, do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the arabs do it tolerably than you do i
Pages from comeys book in how comey interacted with the president despite the socalled cloud of the russia investigation hanging over them. Discussions of loyalty. Former National Security adviser Michael Flynn and the salacious rumors of trumps visit to moscow in 2013 got under his skin. According to comey. In one of the unclassified memos, it includes a famous conversation where trump allegedly told comey quote i hope you can see your way clear to letting this go. To letting flynn go. There is new information, including a claim, that President Trump told comey at a dinner at the white house in 2017 that he had quote serious reservations about Michael Flynns judgment. And Reince Priebus asked comey if flynn was under investigation days before flynn was fired. And lawmakers jumped on the news. Like Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi tweeting the release of the comey memos are further proof of trumps contempt for the rule of law. Republicans say the memos are more indicative of what the memos
Here than kim jong un. Just because President Trump agreed to meet with him he has the lifeverage. He has the leaders of United States and russia and south korea trying to get on his schedule for meetings. There is a big challenge facing the historic summit with trump and kim jong un. That is the location. It seems to be simple, but it is not when you consider the opt s optics. The options are more neutral spots. In asia, singapore antd thailan and vietnam. Those are the countries they are looking for. Unlikely cities are the capitals of the stake holders. Washington, d. C. , pyongyang and seoul. President trump is not interested in the demilitarized zone. Kim jong un not interested in going to the u. S. Aircraft carrier off the coast of the peninsula for the same reason. Until they choose a location, they cannot settle on the date and talk about denuclearization. The United States and north korea have different definitions of denuclearization. The easing of economic sanctions in excha