Steve Bannons Long Love Affair With War

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by Asawin Suebsaeng

01.31.17 12:00 AM ET

Stephen K. Bannon, President Trump’s White House chief strategist, was already set to become one of the most powerful people on the planet—even before Trump appointed him to the National Security Council last weekend.

Those who have known Bannon for years, and before he ascended to executive power, describe a man almost obsessed with military history, guerilla warfare, and the general art of war and nationalist foreign policy.

In his Hollywood days, Bannon could easily play war, writing vast landscapes of warfare and conflict into his scripts, sometimes set in outer space.

Thanks to Donald J. Trump, Bannon now could get to do it for real.

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[guillaumeb]

1. Tell Bannon to send his children off to any wars that he wants to wage.

And that applies to every politician.

[oberliner]

2. His daughter is a 2nd Lt. in the 101st Airborne Division

And is a graduate of West Point. She has served in Iraq.

[guillaumeb]

3. My point still applies.

Far too many politicians are far too free with the lives of military personnel.

If she is a Second Lieutenant she is probably newly graduated. If a war were to break out one assumes that there would be an urgent need for her to be transferred back to the States.

[oberliner]

5. Agreed

He also has two other kids that I believe are of military age at this point.

[fleur-de-lisa]

4. +1,000

[bathroommonkey76]

6. Bannon will send us into a war

I'm thinking Iran first, then North Korea, then China, and a Civil War here if we are still around.

[ffr]

7. Bannon is a Tea Party Nationalist, out to destroy our institutions as they stand. Look familiar?

The New York Times reported that last week’s avalanche of Trump of executive orders was primarily hatched by Bannon and his team, and doubled as an effort “at disorienting the ‘enemy.’”

Linked separate stories.

“National Review and The Weekly Standard,” he said, “are both left-wing magazines, and I want to destroy them also.” He added that “no one reads them or cares what they say.” His goal was to bring down the entire establishment including the leaders of the Republican Party in Congress. He went on to tell me that he was the East Coast coordinator of all the Tea Party groups. His plan was to get its candidates nominated on the Republican ticket, and then to back campaigns that they could win. Then, Bannon said, when elected they would be held accountable to fight for the agenda he and the Tea Party stood for.

If they didn’t, “we would force them out of office and oppose them when the next election for their seats came around.”

[2naSalit]

8. K&R