So, why did Trump chose as his national security
adviser, a three-star general, whose doctoral thesis that was published under
the title “Dereliction of Duty” takes military leaders to task for supporting
the Johnson administration’s Vietnam war strategy? General McMaster, according
to the NY Times, “lays out the consequences of abetting misguided presidents
with ill-conceived policies.”
My guess is that McMaster is a result of a deal made
between Trump and senior Republicans, who must be worried shitless about what
their party has placed in the White House. Trump knows that he needs the
support of these old boys and I can well imagine that the man who speaks of
himself as “the” dealmaker, has made a deal: He will have to take a national
security adviser who has made his view clear about the need to prevent “misguided
presidents with ill-conceived policies” and in return he will get support in
Congress.
