The bilge pump on the ship of state is working overtime, and starting to groan.  A new kind of foul smell is permeating the halls of power, as if the festering boil of deep state interests just blew a pus-filled abscess.   The rising tide of my old neocon bosses from the Pentagon is upon us!

Doug Feith, by General Tommy Frank's observation "the f%&^ing stupidest guy on the face of the earth" just spent two hours in the oval Monday morning, interviewing for a job with President Trump!

The short-lived America-First non-interventionism that earned Trump the votes of working people and veterans all over this country has worried both the deep state and the neoconservative visionaries for nearly two years.  Remember, only two years ago Trump was one of many Republican presidential hopefuls, and with Rand Paul was one of two or three being completely written off by both parties, and hated lavishly by neoconservative media and pundits.  They had their candidates in both parties, several Republicans who would have made war famously and obediently, and Hillary would have out-bombed them all in her first 100 days.

Trump connected with people and what they wanted government to do more of, and what they wanted government to do less of.  One of the things they wanted less of was to go out and look for monsters to destroy.  They wanted troops and money to stay at home, and Trump voters – in a voting bloc never before seen – cheerfully shared his contempt for the state.  Trump was the perfect candidate, and has been enjoyed by many as President, because he says out loud what we were all thinking.

Social media cheered last week after Trump stated that he would be withdrawing troops from Syria – that it wasn't our fight, we weren't winning it, and it wasn't worth doing.   Yesterday afternoon, Trump now speaks about a Syrian-Russian-Iranian axis and how we are going to rain fire and get justice, I'm paraphrasing but does it matter?

Trump's basic instincts were right, but his emergent staff choices tell a different story.

First of all, if Trump spent two solid hours listening to Doug Feith (or even five minutes) it reveals that he's really not into time management like he once was.  Unless he was also texting – which he wasn't.  You can check.  Yesterday afternoon, Trump is talking about a Syrian-Russian-Iranian axis.   Maybe it's just cover for the Israel's wars and attacks on Syria and others.    To be fair, or to illustrate my point, not sure which – we find the flamingly stupid Senator Tom Cotton, speaking in verse with "As the sparrow cannot fall without the Father, so too Assad cannot launch chemical attacks without Iran and Russia. All three should pay for their barbarism."

Reminds me of the turning aspens in the "Scooter" Libby letters to fellow fantasist Judith Miller.  You can't make this stuff up!

Who or what drives the US foreign policy – these days or at any time in modern history?  We cannot know – but we do know that the White House staff that advises the President on such policy is increasingly familiar to those of us who have watched fiasco after fiasco roll out under their watch.

Afghanistan – FAIL.   These same folks led an agenda that today is described as driving Kabul back into the arms of Moscow, as our former puppet Hamid Karzai now says, "I understand perfectly well [Russia] can help us. Not the Britons as we kicked them out of the country several times, not the Americans as they've been killing us for 17 years, but Russia only."