FLYNN: JAW JAW, NOT WAR WAR

GEN FLYNN AN ICONOCLAST THE NATION NEEDED TO RIGHT ITS COURSE "To jaw jaw is always better than to war war" Winston Churchill, 1954.

The military and foreign policy malfeasant "clowns" that dragged us into the Iraq War, the Afghanistan imbroglio, the disaster of intervention in Libya, "regime change" in Syria on the part of vicious minority Sunni radical groups, those in government who caused the rise of ISIS in Iraq and eastern Syria, and those who advanced the stupidity and humanitarian disaster of undermining the moderate pro-Russian president in the Ukraine, all desperately wanted to continue on their course of stupidity which was soundly rejected by the people in the last election. Those who questioned these failed policies, like General Flynn and President Trump, were the obvious targets of personal attacks, smear tactics, leaks of private conversations, and attempts at delegitimization.

By means of secret and possibly illegal telephone taps on private telephone calls, and leaks of that information to the press they have succeeded in undermining General Flynn---a patriotic American who opposed them. Too bad! General Flynn was following Winston Churchill's advice to "jaw jaw" rather than encourage "war war". The American people elected Mr. Trump to change the failed foreign policy course of this nation. General Flynn represented well those needed changes. He favored mending the fractured relationship with Russia, an admirable and wise policy. Jaw jaw is always better than war war.

General Flynn wisely supported a working relationship with Russia. Those in Washington who gain financially, and make a career of generating enemies rather than seeking ways to cooperate and compromise with other nations for the greater good were opposed to General Flynn and his policies. These forces of American policy apparently need enemies to prosper and advance their own--self emolument and aggrandizing agendas--. Their policies demonstrably have not advanced the well-being of the nation as a whole.

Flynn did nothing illegal. He was in his rights to seek out the Russian Ambassador as he prepared to take up his role as the nation's national security advisor to the President. His discussions with the Russian Ambassador were secret and rightly should have remained so.

However, the anti-Trump forces in the monstrously bloated Byzantine Washington bureaucracy did not permit that to happen. Secret telephone conversations were leaked to the press to undermine and weaken the President and control his policies.

The nation's foreign policy over the last decades has been a failure, and calls desperately for a radical change of course. Mr. Trump was elected to make those changes. General Flynn was well positioned to help the President in those goals. Sadly both men have met with the harsh reality of the entrenched, self- serving bureaucracy of Washington. In preparing to fill the position vacated by General Flynn, President Trump must remember why he was elected. The people want change. General Flynn's replacement must not be a Washington insider.