Former National Security Adviser Susan Rice has penned a highly critical op-ed tearing into President Trump over foreign policy.
The piece, “The Threat in the White House,” was published Sunday in the New York times and details what she calls “dangerous dysfunction” in the Trump administration.
In the op-ed, Rice writes that the U.S.’s national security decision-making process is “more broken” than at any time since 1947, when the National Security Act become law.
She writes that the president “does more to undermine American national security than any foreign adversary.”
Rice, who worked under former President Barack Obama, points specifically to Trump’s decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria, a move she called “reckless.”
Defense Secretary James Mattis submitted his resignation the day after Trump’s Syria move. Rice warns that Trump’s decision is a blow to U.S. allies in the region.
“If our national security decision-making process were even minimally functional, there would have been a carefully devised plan to execute moves, including wrongheaded ones,” she writes.
Trump tweeted on Sunday that the withdraw from Syria will be "slow & highly coordinated."
Rice in the op-ed goes on to accuse Trump’s national security adviser, John Bolton, of cutting out key Defense officials from major decisions and leaving “crucial positions” vacant.
Rice adds that Trump “has dealt the death blow to effective policymaking.”
“The president couldn’t care less about facts, intelligence, military analysis or the national interest,” she writes. “He refuses to take seriously the views of his advisers, announces decisions on impulse and disregards the consequences of his actions.”
https://thehill.com/policy/international/422667-susan-rice-trump-doing-more-to-undermine-national-security-than-any