Pompeo till utrikesministern (Tillerson bort), Gina Haspel till CIA, konsekvenser?

Tom.Of.Finland skrev

Varför kan inte USA lägga ned NATO och Israel? Dessa krigshetsande organisationer kommer få Sverige att delta i ett krig.

In the days leading up to a key vote last week over the fate of his nominee for secretary of state, President Trump found a way to win over one of the biggest skeptics in the Senate.

Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.), a rare noninterventionist Republican, was signaling that he would oppose Trump’s pick, then-CIA Director Mike Pompeo, a hawkish former congressman who had backed the Iraq War.

But the more Trump and Paul spoke, including three calls April 23, the more assured Paul became that the president was moving back toward the noninterventionist worldview that Trump had championed on the campaign trail. The conversations left Paul with a particularly enticing notion: that Trump was prepared to end the war in Afghanistan.

“The president told me over and over again in general we’re getting the hell out of there,” Paul said in an interview Thursday in his Senate office. “I think the president’s instincts and inclination are to resolve the Afghan conflict.”

Nonetheless, Trump’s talks with Paul reflect an area of growing tension between the president, whose instinct is to pull out from overseas entanglements, and his military, whose leaders argue that swift withdrawals would spark dangerous instability. In Afghanistan, one indication of the military’s nervousness is its eagerness to open peace talks with the Taliban and try to negotiate an end to the conflict.

Den amerikanska senaten har godkänt nomineringen av den nya CIA-chefen Gina Haspel. Hon valdes trots hennes kopplingar till CIA:s tidigare tuffa förhörsmetoder. Hon är den första kvinnan på posten.

Haspel är den republikanske president Donald Trumps kandidat till posten. Hon har lovat att den amerikanska underrättelseorganisationen inte kommer att ägna sig åt tortyr av fångar om hon får det prestigefyllda jobbet.