The Buffoonery of Trump's National Security Team
The “debate” among the principals revealed that the thinking behind administration policy in Yemen is extremely shallow.
Trump’s national security team is comically inept:
Senior Trump administration national-security officials held detailed discussions of highly classified U.S. plans to launch airstrikes against the Houthis using a commercial messaging service and mistakenly included a journalist in the conversation, U.S. officials said Monday.
Trump’s top national security officials and the vice president appear to have broken the law here. There should be consequences for these violations, but I doubt that any of the people involved will pay the smallest professional or political price. There are growing calls for Waltz to resign, and he should, but I expect that the administration will circle the wagons and deny that they did anything wrong. For his part, Trump was so checked out and oblivious that he had no idea that any of this had occurred or that it had been reported on when he was asked about it earlier today.
The “debate” among the principals revealed that the thinking behind administration policy in Yemen is extremely shallow.