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Imagine that … the man picked to lead the Defense Department thinks Russia is our No. 1 worldwide adversary and he’s sounding a good bit more anti-Kremlin than the man who nominated him, Donald J. Trump.<\/p>\n

What’s going on here? Sanity is breaking out within the budding Trump administration.<\/p>\n

Trump’s CIA director-designate, Mike Pompeo, calls waterboarding a form of “torture” and says he would refuse to obey a direct order to invoke “enhanced interrogation” techniques on enemy captives. Trump campaigned on a pledge to restore waterboarding.<\/p>\n

Now we hear from Defense Secretary-designate James Mattis, who tells us that Russia is our top adversary and that the United States should honor the nuclear arms-production agreement it struck with Iran. Let’s see: Trump is buddies with Vladimir Putin and he says he’ll tear up the Iran nuke treaty when he takes office.<\/p>\n

Mattis isn’t too keen on either matter, he told the Senate Armed Services Committee.<\/p>\n

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Mattis is a retired Marine Corps general with plenty of combat experience. The man is a plain-spoken, in-your-face general-grade officer.<\/p>\n

He said this about the Iran nuclear deal: “I think it is in an imperfect arms control agreement \u2014 it\u2019s not a friendship treaty.\u00a0But when America gives her word, we have to live up to it and work with our allies.\u201d<\/p>\n

I’m beginning to believe Trump might be surrounding himself with at least a couple of reasonable minds on his national security team.<\/p>\n

He will need their wise counsel. I hope\u00a0the hothead\/know-it-all\/commander in chief chooses to heed it.<\/p>\n\n

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Imagine that … the man picked to lead the Defense Department thinks Russia is our No. 1 worldwide adversary and he’s sounding a good bit more anti-Kremlin than the man who nominated him, Donald J. Trump. What’s going on here? Sanity is breaking out within the budding Trump administration. Trump’s CIA director-designate, Mike Pompeo, calls … Continue reading New defense boss breaks with commander in chief-to-be<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[989,1312,1424,2315,6705,6851,4050,5204],"class_list":["post-19152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-news","tag-cia","tag-defense-department","tag-donald-trump","tag-iran-nuclear-deal","tag-james-mattis","tag-mike-pompeo","tag-russia","tag-waterboarding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19154,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19152\/revisions\/19154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}