Tucker Carlson is reported to have some influence on Trump. Carlson has reactionary social views, but he's an anti-war Libertarian who has criticized John Bolton's warmongering more harshly than anyone in mainstream media (he called Bolton a "bureaucratic tapeworm"). One of Carlson's frequent guests is retired Colonel Douglas MacGregor, an opponent of US wars of regime change. Some have said that MacGregor has been auditioning for Bolton's job on Carlson's show. It's a pipe dream, but he'd be a great choice.
One of Carlson's frequent guests is retired Colonel Douglas MacGregor, an opponent of US wars of regime change. Some have said that MacGregor has been auditioning for Bolton's job on Carlson's show. It's a pipe dream, but he'd be a great choice.
9/11 comes along, and it seems reasonable to assume that this unfinished business in Iraq is something that will be taken care of. And people should also not lose sight of the fact that you're in the strategic jugular of the Western world, the Persian Gulf. Iraq is sitting on top of some of the finest crude oil in the world. And there has always been and there always will be a concern that these oil resources could fall into the wrong hands and suddenly create enormous surpluses of cash that can be used for the wrong purposes.
So we have a permanent interest there that goes well beyond just what happened to us in 9/11. The other thing is, keep in mind, 9/11 shouldn't have been a dramatic surprise, even though it was, because we'd been at war with the kinds of people that inflicted that damage since the 1970s, when our embassy was seized in Tehran by the first radical Islamic state that emerged in the region, Iran.
So I didn't see any of it as surprising. ... I never heard any other sinister agendas that suggested that this was some sort of secret conspiracy to go after Iraq using 9/11. Iraq was always there. It was always a problem. It was always a sore point because we had failed in '91 -- something that nobody wants to stand up and admit, but we did. I was there. I remember it vividly.
This is what happens when you become an "empire." You end with stultifying bureaucracies run by Mandarins.
The National Security Adviser position is not needed. It was created during the Eisenhower administration but then was really just an advisory position. Its been aggrandized where the NSA picks most of the National Security Council with his NSC staff filters what the president gets.
With weak presidents it effectively means that policy, both security and some political is driven by the bias of the adviser.
The country worked pretty well before we had the NSA office. As we saw during WW 2.
One of Carlson's frequent guests is retired Colonel Douglas MacGregor, an opponent of US wars of regime change. Some have said that MacGregor has been auditioning for Bolton's job on Carlson's show. It's a pipe dream, but he'd be a great choice.
9/11 comes along, and it seems reasonable to assume that this unfinished business in Iraq is something that will be taken care of. And people should also not lose sight of the fact that you're in the strategic jugular of the Western world, the Persian Gulf. Iraq is sitting on top of some of the finest crude oil in the world. And there has always been and there always will be a concern that these oil resources could fall into the wrong hands and suddenly create enormous surpluses of cash that can be used for the wrong purposes.
So we have a permanent interest there that goes well beyond just what happened to us in 9/11. The other thing is, keep in mind, 9/11 shouldn't have been a dramatic surprise, even though it was, because we'd been at war with the kinds of people that inflicted that damage since the 1970s, when our embassy was seized in Tehran by the first radical Islamic state that emerged in the region, Iran.
So I didn't see any of it as surprising. ... I never heard any other sinister agendas that suggested that this was some sort of secret conspiracy to go after Iraq using 9/11. Iraq was always there. It was always a problem. It was always a sore point because we had failed in '91 -- something that nobody wants to stand up and admit, but we did. I was there. I remember it vividly.
Sometime during the 15 years after this interview took place.
Finally, the Orange Menace does something right, although probably for the wrong reasons. He has FIRED John Bolton. Go figure !