TRUMP RAISES QUESTIONS--IS SKEPTICAL--ITS EXHILERATING

IS'NT IT REFRESHING TO HAVE A PRESIDENT (ELECT) WHO IS ATTEMPTING TO BUILD BRIDGES RATHER THAN BOMB BRIDGES.

Mr. Trump seems determined to buck President Obama, the chicken hawk GOP, other Republicans, the Democrats and the entire Congress as well as the print and electronic media in attempting to find common ground with Mr. Putin, rather than stirring up a phony causus belli. Trump's behavior is positively "unAmerican" according to some! The typical US politician left or right is almost always ready to stir up a fight to the death at the drop of a coin....as long as he or she can stay safely inside the Beltway in Washington. Oh, they'll send you or your kids off to some bomb scarred, bullet pocked, war-torn place to shed your blood or leave behind a limb or two---to maintain the honor of the nation, so they claim. But do not expect them or any of their progeny to share your military C rations. So its pleasant to find the new president on a different course..a course

Mr. Trump, perhaps is a real tough guy, and need not play-act at the part. Let's hope so.

ISN'T IT REFRESHING TO HAVE A PRESIDENT ELECT WHO STANDS ALOOF FROM "WASHINGTON GROUP THINK". IS SKEPTICAL OF INTEL COMMUNITY.

Mr Trump is skeptical of the nation's intelligence agencies. The Washington establishment is aghast. The denizens of the nation's capital (with very few exceptions) are subject to "group think" in which an idea, opinion, concept or policy becomes dogma which is then repeated as the creed or gospel of the group. Anyone expressing doubt or incredulity is attacked as an apostate.

So let's recall that our intel agencies have not been infallible...far from it. There have been many failures. Among the many blunders: the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Collapse of the USSR, India's Nuclear Tests, the tragic 9-11 attacks, and the most egregious and damming error which gave rise to the most calamitous and far reaching foreign policy blunder in American history---the Iraq war----based on the false claim of WMD in Iraq.

Mr. Trump's skepticism, doubt, wariness is warranted and is a refreshing change from the past.