This is the Kader Daily Podcast for Friday, March 15th, 2019. I'm Caleb Brown.

Has the Pentagon been insubordinate to this president, at least as far as he has attempted to de-escalate

two wars the US is now involved in and is the Trump foreign policy too much or

too little like that of Dick Cheney. Jim Antle is editor of the American Conservative magazine we spoke this week.

For people who care about peace and want to have it around the world and want to maintain it and not throw a lot of 18-year-old

boys or drones at problems that are by all rights, none of our business in the United States.

It seems kind of galling to hear

former Vice President Cheney

criticize the Trump administration for over matters of foreign policy.

Well, it's especially rich to hear Dick Cheney complaining that Donald Trump doesn't listen to the intelligence community enough, doesn't agree with their

agree with their assessments and certainly that has been a problem in some

areas but I think some of the biggest abuses of intelligence that we've seen in recent years have been some things

Dick Cheney mainstreamed about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq

about the connections but supposed connections between Saddam Hussein

and the 9-11 terrorist attacks.

But yeah, I think that Dick Cheney criticizing Donald Trump, who I think has up to this point if you if you

cast aside his rhetoric and look only at what he's actually done. He's been a less consistent and less enthusiastic

hawk, but a hawk nonetheless for the most part. Now he campaigned on winding down various wars in a smaller

military footprint in the Middle East and it seems to some extent he's actually

sort of trying to accomplish that with a drawdown in Afghanistan and a withdraw from Syria.

But he's not put in place a team of people who agree with him on those issues.

They've succeeded in slow walking and up to this point

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