Writing in the New York Times Monday, former national security adviser Susan Rice wondered how the U.S. came to the brink of war with Iran, after President Trump approved and then cancelled air strikes in the span of ten minutes.
“How on earth did we find ourselves 10 minutes from an idiotic war without the president having weighed the consequences?” Rice asks.
“As a former national security adviser who has participated in many decisions about whether and when to use force, I am more certain than ever that our national security decision-making process is dangerously dysfunctional,” she adds.
View the complete June 24 article by Tana Ganeva from Raw Story on the AlterNet website here.