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US President-elect Joe Biden arrives at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Delaware, December 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
WILMINGTON, Delaware (AP) US President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team expressed frustration Friday with the level of cooperation they’re getting from political appointees at the Department of Defense, saying there has been “an abrupt halt in the already limited cooperation there.”
Biden’s transition team has been meeting with officials at various agencies to get detailed reviews of the programs and challenges the new administration will inherit, a process that was initially delayed when the General Services Administration declined to issue an official ascertainment that Biden had won the election. The delay occurred as US President Donald Trump, whose appointee ran the GSA, refused to concede.
Joe Biden team angry over lack of support from Pentagon accused of obstructing cooperation
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All-War-All-the-Time?
Originally posted at TomDispatch.
Hmmm… let me see if I’ve gotten this straight. In his last days in office, Donald Trump is “ending” America’s forever wars (as he long promised he would do) by leaving 2,500 American troops in Afghanistan, a similar number in Iraq, and continuing the air war across parts of the Greater Middle East and Africa. Take Somalia, where American troops have periodically been stationed since 1993. The latest secretary of defense, Christopher Miller, actually visited that country as November ended to thank the more than 700 U.S. troops involved in training and advising Somali forces there. He promised to withdraw