Our Self Governing Military

In comments Wednesday regarding the recent revealed US military operation inside Niger, President Trump confirmed that he never personally authorized any of the mission, but rather that “my generals and my military” did that all on their own.

Trump insisted his generals “are great generals” and “I gave them authority to do what’s right” and he is confident that eventually “we’re going to win.” Trump added that he’s been finding out about the mission just like everyone else has.

You can read the rest @
http://news.antiwar.com/2017/10/25/trump-my-generals-authorized-us-missions-in-niger/

Obviously there are two extremes:

• A President who micromanages every mission; and
• A President who is clueless about what "his" military is doing.

Clearly Trump has gone over to the latter option.

I would argue that if Hillary Clinton had been elected we STILL would be in Niger, only the President would be aggressively managing the slaughter instead of merely being its titular Commander-in-Chief.