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Former National Seurity Adviser Lt. Gen. H. R. Gen. McMaster’s Blistering Account of the Trump White House.

(CNN) — Until now, Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster has held his fire about his stint in the Trump White House. McMaster served with distinction in key American conflicts of the past decades: the Gulf War, the Iraq War and the war in Afghanistan, but as McMaster recounts in his new book, “At War with Ourselves: My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House,” in some ways, his most challenging tour as a soldier was his last one: serving as the national security adviser to a notoriously mercurial president.

In his blistering, insightful account of his time in the Trump White House, McMaster describes meetings in the Oval Office as “exercises in competitive sycophancy” during which Trump’s advisers would flatter the president by saying stuff like, “Your instincts are always right” or, “No one has ever been treated so badly by the press.” Meanwhile, Trump would say “outlandish” things like, “Why don’t we just bomb the drugs?” in Mexico or, “Why don’t we take out the whole North Korean Army during one of their parades?”

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Yeah, I read a report about McMaster's book and the awful things he reveals about the Trump White House. I knew McMaster was a distinguished 3-star general; I did NOT know that he also has a PhD in history! He wrote his PhD thesis on how poor communications between the military and Pres. Johnson got us bogged down in Vietnam.
beckyromero · 36-40, F
@ElwoodBlues

Didn't know about the McMaster book. Yes, certain military leaders gave bad advice to LBJ. And also SecDef Robert McNamara. Retired Gen. Douglas MacArthur had warned both JFK and LBJ against getting involved in a land war in Southeast Asia.

You might want to check out "Path to War."

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