don t seem to like it. this is almost a danger of bringing in bannon. right? that it would end in this way, almost inevitably, but that the outcome there when you do that with someone with ties that he has to breitbart, and to the broader, the movement there, it s that this happens. that they turn on you. one thing i ll say and keep going back to it and john s main point is, donald trump is the only adviser that matters in the white house. if you ve learned anything, i guess if i ve learned anything in the theirs months of this presidency it s that. that john kelly has said privately semipublicly, i m focusing on the of staff part. try to get the staff in order. that departure, anthony scaramucci sort of departed himself and steve babin. bannon. the central guy, the guy who s not going to disappear from any pictures in the oval office, is donald trump.
to send mercenaries in their place. it isn t that bannon is a pacificist by any means but he wants to scale back american military involvement in most places. and you have this remarkably bizarre situation. so trying to sort through the nsc. you have the author of this memo who has been fired. it makes you wonder who else was there. meanwhile in the showdown with bannon, the sort of, the breitbart publication that he used to run is waging this absolutely merciless ideological warfare against the president s national security adviser, day after day. zionist organization. you have mcmaster leaks, cartoons circulating the internet on the alt right. this is really bizarre. it is. i think that breitbart sees itself as part of this nationalist faction trying to stand up for their guy in the white house. and trying to push back against
wants to scale back american military involvement in most places. and you have this remarkably bizarre situation. so trying to sort through the nsc. you have the author of this memo who has been fired. it makes you wonder who else was there. meanwhile in the showdown with bannon, the sort of, the breitbart publication that he used to run is waging this absolutely merciless ideological warfare against the president s national security adviser, day after day. zionist organization. you have mcmaster leaks, cartoons circulating the internet on the alt right. this is really bizarre. it is. i think that breitbart sees itself as part of this nationalist faction trying to stand up for their guy in the white house. and trying to push back against the quote/unquote globalists, like mcmaster who are doing things like not repealing their iran nuclear deal as trump
have distinctly different viewpoints. and bannon is not a guy who likes to fall back and defer to other people. and even though he s been kicked off the national security council, he obviously still has a voice in the administration s foreign policy and is trying to exert his influence through other channels. we should be clear to the extent there s a war party, the other side, the bannon side on afghanistan, wants to outsource the conflict of 5,000 mercenaries. so it s not like there s a big peace faction on the other side. bannon s view, to the extent i think understand it, he wants to wind down the u.s. military presence along with jared kushner, it sounds like they ve come one a slightly crazy plan to send mercenaies in their place. it isn t that bannon is a pacificist by any means but he
it didn t sound like something that was the product of him. and yet, the reason he s relevant here is he what appears to be this proxy happening with bannon on one side and mcmaster on the other. what s going on there? basically, they represent two different factions in american foreign policy. and bannon and the nationalists around him favor a less interventionist foreign policy with a focus on combatting radical islam in china and mcmaster is more of a traditional hawkish foreign policy guy who wants to be more aggressive in places like syria and afghanistan and north korea. and the reason it is such a bitter ideological dispute, is that bannon feels like mcmaster represents what the nationalist faction calls the war party. so on every issue that has come up, whether it is afghanistan or syria or now north korea, they