NBC & MSNBC News veteran correspondent William Arkin announced his resignation effective Friday over what he described as “Trump circus” reporting that is increasingly favored over real journalism.
Arkin is no supporter of PDJT. However, he said part of his reason for leaving was the network’s obsession with opposing the president at every turn. In particular, Arkin, who is anti-war, notes that the MSM automatically oppose any and all peace initiatives coming from PDJT. He indicates that the MSM have become little more than mouthpieces for the warfare state.
“For me I realized how out of step I was when I looked at Trump’s various bumbling intuitions: his desire to improve relations with Russia, to denuclearize North Korea, to get out of the Middle East, to question why we are fighting in Africa, even in his attacks on the intelligence community and the FBI.
“Of course he is an ignorant and incompetent impostor. And yet I’m alarmed at how quick NBC is to mechanically argue the contrary, to be in favor of policies that just spell more conflict and more war. Really? We shouldn’t get out Syria? We shouldn’t go for the bold move of denuclearizing the Korean peninsula? Even on Russia, though we should be concerned about the brittleness of our democracy that it is so vulnerable to manipulation, do we really yearn for the Cold War? And don’t even get me started with the FBI: What? We now lionize this historically destructive institution?”
2018 showed just how corrupt the FBI, DOJ, NSA and others have been. The depth and breadth of the corruption is stunning. Yet, Mr. Arkin is correct that the MSM is now putting the FBI up on some pedestal as a great institution. Why? Because PDJT has been fighting with them over corruption. What the FBI really needs is a thorough cleaning out.
See the full text of his memo here.
Arkin also castigates those national security elites for the current state of affairs. He said,
“Though they produce nothing that resembles actual safety and security, the national security leaders and generals we have are allowed to do their thing unmolested. Despite being at “war,” no great wartime leaders or visionaries are emerging. There is not a soul in Washington who can say that they have won or stopped any conflict. And though there might be the beloved perfumed princes in the form of the Petraeus’ and Wes Clarks’, or the so-called warrior monks like Mattis and McMaster, we’ve had more than a generation of national security leaders who sadly and fraudulently have done little of consequence. And yet we (and others) embrace them, even the highly partisan formers who masquerade as “analysts.” We do so ignoring the empirical truth of what they have wrought: There is not one country in the Middle East that is safer today than it was 18 years ago. Indeed the world becomes ever more polarized and dangerous….”
Are cracks beginning to show in wall that warmongers (Dems and Repubs alike) have built to keep us continually at war? America has been at war since 1991. Until recently, almost no one discussed this subject. All those who “know better” have been big supporters of continual warfare. As has the MSM. Witness the overwhelming support a President (even PDJT) gets when he takes strong military action. PDJT has changed this equation. He is showing us that there is another way to conduct foreign policy. We can live in this world without bombing the crap out of people needlessly.