Obviously you are right. The oath didn’t mean sh#%

It s. They take an oath of office. Formal requirements don't matter when the political culture is already gone.

But leftists feel guilty and vote in that basis. It should just be that one of the requirements for public office that you can’t even run if you hold beliefs that are against our constitution

People should have enough sense to not vote for them. That they do and the House won't expel these crazies illustrates the broader problem.

And they shouldn’t be in our government at any level unless they disavow sharia law

To say the least.

I think Muslims who want to live here should disavow the parts of Islam that want to kill the infidels

The vast majority of them do leave you alone. The ones who don't are the ones who should be dealt with directly. But that isn't a religious crusade.

As for them living here it depends on how many and what they are as individuals. People who are willing to support themselves and respect the rights of the individual can be tolerated no matter what their (inconsistent) religious dogmas. But beyond a certain point, the influx of an anti-reason, anti-individualist alien philosophy and culture in volume can only destroy a country built on their opposite, and they are being helped by the results of the counter Enlightenment already spread here.

One of the best of them is still living in exile in, ironically, Russia.

I would like to leave muslins alone. So long as they leave me alone. I really don’t want them living in the USA though cause

Yes !!

Thanks, friend, but I'm beyond fear at this point in my life. The KGB made one attempt and failed. I feel a man is measured by his enemies, and by his friends. I think we are well served by the few who intend to cleanse the manure that has crept into our intelligence agencies. Only time will tell. Sleep well, as there are forces afoot who will right the ship of state.

Before Carter's debacle Kennedy dabbled in Eisenhower's plan at Cuba and created the disaster he tried to deny.

Attempts to reform the intelligence agencies in accordance with the Constitution seem doomed to fail. Revelations from Binney to Snowden should have created a national common sense revolt, which is what they were counting on, but it didn't happen. Instead the agencies captured their civilian leaders and the problems worse.

If I were you I wouldn't be broadcasting what kind of access you had.

Iran should know we have sneaky seals who can put mines on their oil tankers and not be filmed by anyone.

Some kind of war is inevitable there. A better form of it would be for the Iranian people to revolt, which they tried to do but were stopped by Obama supporting the regime. Their economy is in depression and the sanctions may lead to a revolt. But US military action should not be automatically ruled out in favor of sanctions no matter what the Iran dictatorship does now.

The Iranian dictators know they can't win a "Pearl Harbor" attack against the US. But they may be irrational enough to think they can enlist the aid of China or Russia and wind up doing something really stupid whose destruction no one would win. It's very important to keep Iran definitely and militarily confined to keep them under control until they go under before they can obtain their own nuclear weapons.

Stay out of Amazon and African cannibal territory. Primitives all over the world would kill you. It isn't a reason to start a religious crusade against Muslims and "muslims" are not a proper basis for US foreign policy.

I am not so sure about the whole “sanctions” approach to Iran actually bringing their irrational leaders to the table. From where I sit, and admittedly without knowledge of really what’s going on, it would appear that the economic sanctions against Iran will result in the same result that happened with Japan in WW2. Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in a last ditch attempt to score the destruction of our pacific fleet

Pushing a dictatorship that doesn’t care about its own people against the wall means their only option would be military.

That said, maybe war with Iran is inevitable, and like with hitler, better to do it now before they get nuclear weapons.

Just so we're clear on what I do or don't know, I held special compartmented access credentials under both the DoD and CIA, the so called "above top secret" clearances. And yes, there's a lot I can never tell anyone.

I can tell you that once the military advises their civilian counterparts on what could be done, the decision to act passes to that civilian leadership, and they don't always follow the military strategy. As one illustration, President Carter did not follow the military advice on the attempt to rescue the Iranian held hostages, being more concerned with creating a multiservice team than executing the best strategy. As a result, the attempt met with disaster, from using the wrong equipment and a team that had never worked together before.

An experience I can pass along is that the creation of a National Intelligence Agency that supposedly leads all the subordinate intelligence agencies did not solve the problem of agencies not sharing information. It did, however, make the misuse of assets easier, as the extra layer of administration further clouds the view of what exactly each agency is up to. It also allowed the "leak" of missions from one agency to another, with NSA and CIA working in areas they aren't supposed to. Part of this mission leak is because the NSA has the most powerful supercomputers of any agency, and it's inevitable that when they let any other agency make use of their systems, they control what their own people see.

Then there's the new Cyber Command in the Pentagon. The Defense Intelligence Agency is heavily involved, and has a burr under its saddle about the encroachment of the civilian intelligence agencies cyber activities. Naturally, the civilian intelligence agencies are irritated by the "new kid on the block" working in a field they previously acted alone, passing tidbits to the military when it suited them.

If I was a White House Intelligence Czar, I'd advise the President to form a team of experienced intelligence people from across the spectrum of agencies and the DoD to probe flaws in the national intelligence system. The team would be charged with recommending actions to clarify the rules of engagement between the agencies, and to prevent abuses such as we've witnessed over the past few decades.

Watch the movie “ 13 days” for a snapshot of decision making in a White House. The war machine military has contingency plans for many scenarios ready to implement- waiting for presidential approval prior to actual execution

The Koran prescribes “death to the infidels”. I am a non believer, so it’s prescribing that the muslins should kill me. Muslims don’t seem to disavow this part of their religion

I haven’t seen in Christian or Mormon religions that all infidels must be killed

Who is the cowardly troll who emotionally 'downvotes' with no attempt at rational discussion? This forum does not need anti-intellectual conservatives on a mindless hate crusade for Trump idolatry.

Stop making excuses for him. His range of the moment Pragmatism and emotional thinking is not "three dimensional chess" in some superior intellectual realm no one else can attain. Trump's cancelling a military raid he already approved, minutes before it would have been too late is not an "appearance of disorganized". Nor does his public explanation that he had just learned that people would be killed make any sense. Potential action is planned long in advance and he had already been told what it meant.

Violence is "written into" the Bible and every other religion, primitive tribe, and ethnic group. Most of them around the world are no threat to us. The military threat is from certain nations. The rest of them keep themselves suppressed in ignorance and superstition.

Part of a good negotiation is appearing to be somewhat disorganized. Trump is good at this. I say let him do his job. The proof of the pudding is in the eating

Violence is written into their Koran