Just what we DON’T need. A man with a glowing recommendation from Susan Rice.
Where?
No kidding.
Actually, he had a glowing recommendation from me and from Victor Davis Hanson.
McMaster knows more about beating radical Islam than anyone on this board, and more than, yes, Steve Bannon. That’s why Bannon took my advice.
What he and Petraeus did RIGHT in Iraq was take over a badly failing strategy that had way too many people in the cities who were not fighting and get combat troops out; and 2) they got the western al-Anbar tribes to go to war with al-Qaeda. Those were major accomplishments, eliminated by Obama. To think that you can have advisors who have never been to Iraq or Afghanistan, never dealt with the enemy and our allies-—however reliable/unreliable they might be-—up close, well that’s just lunacy.
McMaster was hated by the traditional brass because he thought outside the box, was very results driven. He can do the job if people let him, and, yes, he will listen to Bannon.