https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nikki-haley-reveals-tillerson-kelly-privately-discussed-resisting-trump-it-was-offensiveInteresting perspective from Nikki Haley, the 'adult in the room' during palace intrigue;
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Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley blasted former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, recalling a private conversation where they defended resisting President Trump, telling her they did so out of necessity.
Haley told "CBS Evening News" anchor Norah O’Donnell that she did not appreciate having the former officials confide in her, as she described in her new book, “With All Due Respect.”
"Instead of saying that to me, they should've been saying that to the president, not asking me to join them on their sidebar plan," Haley said.
Haley said that the two men “confided in me that when they resisted the president, they weren't being insubordinate, they were trying to save the country” and how “Tillerson went on to tell me the reason he resisted the president's decisions was because, if he didn't, people would die…."
Haley, however, was not impressed.
“It should've been, 'Go tell the president what your differences are, and quit if you don't like what he's doing,'” Haley told O’Donnell. “But to undermine a president is really a very dangerous thing. And it goes against the Constitution, and it goes against what the American people want. And it was offensive."
She's got the right of it. Kelly and Tillerson should have hashed out their policy differences with the president and tried to convince him, not undermine him. If they couldn't, then they should have fucked off earlier or fallen in line. That's how command works. Sometimes Presidents make the wrong call and it does indeed cost lives, sometimes presidents make the right call against what their advisors were saying. And for people as opinionated on foreign affairs as Kelly & Tillerson, those legitimate policy differences could span miles. Did Barack Obama's top officials seek to undermine and avert his interventions into Yemen or Libya or funneling weapons into Syria?
It cost 400,000+ lives. People give Obama flak for the drone program where we managed losses, but some of the worst humanitarian disasters since the Cold War happened due to Obama's missteps. Understandable missteps from deliberative policy decisions, where many people in expensive suits with fancy titles all thought it was the right thing to do. And they were wrong. Should someone have conspired behind Obama's back to stop the wars, or should they have voiced their complaints to his face and resigned if he refused? Or is the reality that there was nobody in Obama's cabinet with a dissenting voice and a spine to match it
This post was edited by Goomshill on Nov 10 2019 07:56pm
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