1 Trump has complained bitterly, in public & to aides, about permanent wars Pentagon has been fighting for years across Greater Middle East & Africa, & commitments to South Korea and NATO. unprecedented struggle between a sitting president & national security state over empirehttps://twitter.com/GarethPorter/status/1047482424517709824 …
6 Bolton persuaded Trump to view Syria in the context of the administration’s vendetta against Iran. Bolton declared US troops would not leave Syria when as Iranian troops serve outside Iranian borders. But Mattis contradicted Bolton, saying the troops in Syria to defeat ISIS
