A peek inside Trump's childish, narcissistic "decision-making process" on Afghanistan
By Bob Johnson at Daily Kos
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/8/22/1692258/-A-peak-inside-Trump-s-childish-narcissistic-decision-making-process-on-Afghanistan
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Philip Rucker and Robert Costa of the Washington Post paint an unsurprising, yet still disturbing, portrait of Trump’s toddler-like “decision-making process” on Afghanistan. As one would suspect, it was all about him:
Trump decided to escalate troop levels, but only after protracted deliberations that deeply divided the administration. Lobbied by rival advisers, the president pinballed between his militaristic and anti-interventionist impulses. Impatient during classified briefings, Trump longed to reimagine U.S. policy in South Asia under his “America first” banner.
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Trump’s private deliberations — detailed in interviews with more than a dozen senior administration officials and outside allies — revealed a president unattached to any particular foreign-policy doctrine, but willing to be persuaded as long as he could be seen as a strong and decisive leader.
This is how silly and inane it got:
One of the ways McMaster tried to persuade Trump to recommit to the effort was by convincing him that Afghanistan was not a hopeless place. He presented Trump with a black-and-white snapshot from 1972 of Afghan women in miniskirts walking through Kabul, to show him that Western norms had existed there before and could return.
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