Delegating Power to Generals? Trump's Historic Cowardice and Abrogation of Presidential Responsibility

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Using big bombs and restricting political strategy to hard power and big bombs and centrally controlled missiles is an extreme example of top down narrow vision thinking. Top down thinking sees the simple minded solution-- that big bombs and big offensives solve problems. The truth is that the thought or statement "Nuke the bastards" is one of the dumbest, most simple-minded, mental Viagra approaches that can be proposed When my friends suggest it, my response, is always along the lines of "Don't be an idiot."

Unfortunately, if Trump, in one of the most historic acts of leadership cowardice , is delegating the big decisions to his generals, he has removed himself from the possibility of close advisors to tell him that these approaches are idiotic. I fear that Trump, with his childish proclivity to use the big military tech "toys" that he has at his disposal, will, because he can, open up the nuclear football and push the button to launch the first nuclear attack since the 1940s. Or maybe, if you believe him that he's handed decision making over to his generals, one of them will make the decision without consulting with him. How insane is that?