Thursday, June 22, 2017

Is President Trump Ready To Handle A Crisis?

President Donald Trump is shown in an official White House handout image meeting with his National Security team and being briefed by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joseph Dunford via secure video teleconference after a missile strike on Syria while inside the Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility at his Mar-a-Lago resort in West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. April 6, 2017. White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer stated that this image has been digitally edited for security purposes when he released the photo via Twitter on April 7, 2017. The White House/Handout via REUTERS

Douglas Lute, Politico: Trump’s Not Ready for a Crisis

The White House national security team is still in transition, nearly five months on.

Innside the 18-acre White House compound, the National Security Council process—making key decisions and overseeing their execution—is still in transition nearly five months after President Donald Trump took office. The sooner this transition concludes, the better for our security. In the long run, getting this transition right is far more important than any of the administration’s discrete decisions that have dominated the news since January 20. Based on my firsthand experience in the White House coordinating the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan during the last such transition—the departure of the Bush administration and the arrival of the Obama team in 2009—there are two fundamental challenges.

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1 comment:

Unknown said...

There are many crisis. The media just does not report them.

Take your typical liberal rube media outlet. They will turn on & off the flow of stories on homelessness depending on the part of the occupant of the Whitehouse.

Nuff said about the rubes.