Trump versus Intelligence community.

INTELLIGENCE IS TO PROVIDE OBJECTIVE INFORMATION

PRESIDENT SETS DIRECTION OF FOREIGN POLICY

We see much anxiety that the president has not followed the advice of the intelligence community in some matters. He does get to listen to their analysis and advice, but he ultimately has the authority set the direction of foreign policy.

In my lifetime, I have watched as we spent 10 years in a war in Viet-Nam as 58,000 young men in my age group died and thousands more were permanently damaged, both physically and emotionally for an endeavor advocated and managed by our intelligence community and state department. Our men routinely conquered hills and watched their fellows die only to turn it back over to the enemy the next day. Our pilots were forbidden from bombing enemies until authorized from Washington. Our allies shipped goods to the enemy but we were forbidden to embargo their shipping. This was all the new policy of containment, no victory, just police action. At the expense of out fortune and our best young people. 

We saw how we made Saddam our ally to attack Iran, then destroyed his army after we gave him the go-ahead to invade Kuwait. Then we installed permanent military bases in Saudi Arabia, which prompted some Saudi's to attack us on 911.  Then in the war on terrorism we listened to our intelligence community who swore that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. We ignored those on the ground who said it was not true. We then removed the counter to Iran and an enemy of AL-Queda who was not bound by rules, who would have stamped out ISIS in its infancy.

We then set out to help to overthrow the governments in Egypt, Syria and Lybia, destabilizing the whole middle-east and creating a migration crisis in Europe. These actions were all endorsed by our intelligence community. If they were batting .250 we would have better results. They are either incompetent or they have an agenda that is not in the best interest of the United States.

There was a time when I blamed much of this on the Bush Presidents, Clinton and Obama, but it is becoming obvious that out foreign policy has been determined by others who have not been elected. I have come to believe that our country is being run by those with an agenda that is determined to engage in continuous war and chaos. Is it for monetary gain or just using the U.S. military as the police force of Global government, I don't know the answer, but I applaud anyone who has the guts to question their motives and expose their duplicity.