Timothy Birdnow

Are neocons taking over the NSC? Tablet Magazine thinks so but Mike Waltz disagrees.

I don't know but I certainly hope we aren't getting the same tired old swamp rats back into positions of influence.

I am not an isolationist by any stretch. In fact I may be the last person in America to think the Iraq invasion was not a terrible thing. But enough is enough;we have no clear definitions of our goals or our exit strategies in most of these conflicts. Usually we have no direct national interest involved, but are merely working the will of Europe or the big plutocrats in the international Ruling class. It's got to stop.

I am worried about staffing and have been all along. Trump did a dreadful job of it first time around, and while I suspect he's going to do better (his picks have been pretty good, by and large, this time) I fear the second-tier guys may be the same Burmese Pythons squeezing the life out of us.

So I truly hope Waltz is right and the report is wrong. We need SOME neocons, certainly, to provide a balanced viewpoint,but they need to be a minority. What America needs right now are people who will think outside of the box. The Cold War is long over.

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