On the issue of Ukraine, the president has lost control over key administration officials.Of course, this begs the question of whether these officials have actually gone rogue.
The National Interest
Reckless: Obama’s Advisers Go Rogue
James Carden, Contributing Editor
The president has not lost control. He is on board with these doctrines. He's "green lighted" them.
ReplyDeleteAgree, Mike. These are career people and career people don't go rogue if they value their careers, military especially, and the iron law of institutions says that they do.
ReplyDeleteI agree, Obama's team hasn't left the reservation at all.
ReplyDeleteObama fired McChrystal : NYT
Speaking in the Rose Garden to reporters, Mr. Obama said he did not fire General McChrystal for critical comments about him and his staff in Rolling Stone magazine, nor “out of any sense of personal insult.” Rather, the president cited the need for his team to unite in pressing the war effort.
“I don’t think we can sustain that unity of effort and achieve our objectives in Afghanistan without making this change,” he said.
He also dumped Hagel
The defense secretary, regardless of his lofty title, was never part of the president’s inner decision-making circle on foreign policy, which the sources said would remain intact (and it’s worth noting, the sources said, that powerful Joint Chiefs Chairman Martin Dempsey is), and few expect his departure to solve the deeper problems plaguing Obama’s national security team given the iron grip exerted on foreign policymaking by Obama’s West Wing staff.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/11/hagel-dump-obama-113152.html#ixzz3VFST1LFY