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Newt Gingrich, a former House speaker and informal Trump adviser, said, “Sessions is the person who is comfortable being an outsider to the establishment but able to explain the establishment to Trump. There is this New York-Los Angeles bias that if you sound like Alabama, you can’t be all that bright, but that’s totally wrong, and Trump recognized how genuinely smart Sessions is.”

In his senior staff meetings, Trump talks about Sessions as someone who “gets things done,” calmly and without fanfare, said Kellyanne Conway, the White House counselor.

“He does it in a very courtly, deliberative manner,” she said. “There’s never a cloud of dust or dramatic flourish.”

“It’s like being a guerrilla in the hinterlands preparing for the next hopeless assault on the government,” said Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, a conservative research institute. “Then you get a message that the capital has fallen.”

Sessions helped devise Trump’s first-week strategy, in which the president signed a blizzard of executive orders that begin to fulfill his signature campaign promises — although he had advocated going even faster.

The senator lobbied for a “shock-and-awe” period of executive action that would rattle Congress, impress Trump’s base and catch his critics unaware, according to two officials involved in the transition planning.

Trump opted for a slightly slower pace, these officials said, because he wanted to maximize news coverage by spreading out his directives over several weeks.

Bannon is Putin's boy, and you're putting him in the Inner Sanctum. Heaven help us all.

cicerone imposter wrote:

Many are still questioning the atomic bombing of Japan.

Do they also question the incendiary bombing of Tokyo where about the same number of people were burned alive?
There is no logic to the special consideration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Nor is there any to that for civilians in that war. Civilians are the ones who hire the 'hitmen' to do their wet work for them. We prosecute those who engage in murder for hire, why should war be any different?

cicerone imposter wrote:

Our country fucked up a lot of countries. Killed many innocent people. Many are still questioning the atomic bombing of Japan.

I'm sure the potential 1 million American servicemen who would have died in an invasion of Japan didn't question ****...Nor did their mothers.

cicerone imposter wrote:

You don't value human life; scum.

Apparently you value the lives of fanatical Japanese soldiers who continually violated the Geneva Convention over the million American lives that would have been lost putting an end to Japan's treachery. And you are calling Frug scum? A patriot you're not.

Any chance we can lay off the personal insults?

You can challenge my posts all day long, but you'll just waste your time. This is a free speech country. When I see stupid, I'm going to challenge it.

Civilians are a non-issue in any case. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were military targets.

“Koichi Kido, one of Emperor Hirohito's closest advisors, stated: "We of the peace party were assisted by the atomic bomb in our endeavor to end the war." Hisatsune Sakomizu, the chief Cabinet secretary in 1945, called the bombing "a golden opportunity given by heaven for Japan to end the war."

Waiting for the Japanese to surrender was not a cost-free option: as a result of the war, noncombatants were dying throughout Asia at a rate of about 200,000 per month.”

Japanese War Ministry on August 1, 1944 ordered disposal and execution of all Allied POWs, numbering over 100,000, if an invasion of the Japanese mainland took place. (It is also likely that, considering Japan's previous treatment of POWs, were the Allies to wait out Japan and starve it, the Japanese would have killed all Allied POWs and Chinese prisoners.)”

Slate: Trump election proved US as 'unjust, racist, sexist'

By Paul Bedard (@SecretsBedard) • 12/29/16 10:38 AM

“I do not listen to every criticism, let alone act on them. I have learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the difference.”

“I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.” (Abe Lincoln)