So this happened: a senior US diplomat admits that the Washington bureaucracy was lying to President Trump in order to keep a larger US military presence in Syria.
defenseone.com/threats/2020/1…
defenseone.com/threats/2020/1…
The fact that this apparently worked does not speak especially well of the president.
The fact that it happened at all is an indictment of our foreign policy establishment.
The fact that it happened at all is an indictment of our foreign policy establishment.
Among our elites, there is a broad cross-party bias in favor of expansive US military commitments overseas. It is *deeply* baked into the conventional wisdom in policy circles, the State Department and other overseas agencies, and the military.
Some people call this "The Blob."
Some people call this "The Blob."
...and regardless of what you think of Trump's Syria policy (which was erratic), it is a major problem when the Blob thinks its job is throw a roadblock in the decisions of our democratically elected leaders. 
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