{"id":1443001,"date":"2022-04-18T08:14:50","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T12:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1443001"},"modified":"2022-04-18T08:14:57","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T12:14:57","slug":"biden-rejects-unanimous-nsc-more-regularly-than-you-may-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-rejects-unanimous-nsc-more-regularly-than-you-may-think\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Rejects Unanimous NSC \u201cMORE REGULARLY THAN YOU MAY Think\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-rejects-unanimous-nsc-more-regularly-than-you-may-think%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1443001&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>President Joe Biden regularly deviates from the recommendations made by his national security team, one of his top advisors revealed Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said Biden overruling decisions from top national security officials, including when there\u2019s agreement between Sullivan, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, is not uncommon and is \u201cone of the humbling things\u201d about his job. Sullivan argued the president\u2019s questioning of his aides improves the overall decision-making process.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"related-articles-placeholder\">\n<div class=\"related-articles\">\n<p class=\"related-articles-head\">Related articles<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe can run a whole process that involves multiple layers of review and decision and a lot of people who are pretty smart and very knowledgeable on the subject all coming together collectively around a consensus recommendation,\u201d Sullivan said at an event hosted by the Economic Club of Washington, D.C. \u201cWe can take it to the president, who will have spent that day focused on domestic policy or something totally different, and he will look at it and then he will ask a question that makes you think, \u2018Oh wow, we didn\u2019t even really get to that.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019ll get to the heart of the matter, and say, \u2018I question this underlying premise of the decision you just came out with.\u2019\u201d Sullivan continued. \u201cThat happens more often than you might think.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The most public example is Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/04\/17\/us\/politics\/biden-afghanistan-withdrawal.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rejecting<\/a> top generals\u2019 advice not to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan, which led to the rapid Taliban takeover of the country, an Afghan international refugee crisis, and the deaths of 13 troops during a dangerous evacuation mission. Biden pursued his plan to remove all American troops from the country by September 2021, regardless of conditions on the ground, despite advice from current and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/ideas\/2021\/08\/john-allen-biden-must-reverse-his-decision-quit-afghanistan\/184512\/\">former military leaders<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/biden-rejected-blinken-and-austins-advice-on-gradual-afghanistan-withdrawal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">diplomats<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usip.org\/publications\/2021\/02\/afghanistan-study-group-final-report-pathway-peace-afghanistan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">outside experts<\/a> that America should maintain a small counterterrorism force in Afghanistan or at least withdraw more gradually.<\/p>\n<p>Biden may feel confident in his own decisions in part because of his extensive foreign policy leadership experience. In the Senate, he was a leading lawmaker voice during the Balkan wars of the 1990s, and later <a href=\"https:\/\/obamawhitehouse.archives.gov\/realitycheck\/node\/110\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">served<\/a> for more than a decade as either chairman or ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, even counseling then-Senator Obama on nuclear policy. Biden grew a reputation for offering bold if unpopular solutions to international crises, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/factchecks\/2010\/jul\/21\/joe-biden\/joe-biden-says-he-never-called-partition-iraq\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">proposing<\/a> to divide Iraq into three semi-autonomous regions. Obama later assigned Biden an active role in foreign policy while serving as his vice president, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2019\/07\/22\/joe-bidens-claim-that-he-got-combat-troops-out-iraq\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">overseeing<\/a> the drawdown of American troops from Iraq. Biden continued to give his unfiltered and countervailing advice to Obama, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/12\/31\/politics\/fact-check-biden-buttigieg-iraq-afghanistan\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opposing<\/a> large U.S. troops surges into Afghanistan and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/05\/01\/politics\/osama-bin-laden-death-biden\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">disagreeing<\/a> with Obama\u2019s decision to proceed with the Osama bin Laden raid.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/events.defenseone.com\/outlook-2022\/on-demand\/312\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\">Related: Defense One&#8217;s Exclusive Interview with Jake Sullivan, Dec 2021<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is something about having a chief executive who has perspective, experience, the ability to kind of see things from multiple different angles who just brings a different level of capacity to decision making,\u201d Sullivan said. \u201cIt does mean that we will prepare consensus recommendations and he\u2019ll say, \u2018I don\u2019t buy that. You need to improve that,\u2019 Or, \u2018I\u2019m on the other side of that,\u2019 and then obviously he\u2019s the boss. But I think it makes for a more effective decision-making process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sullivan said the \u201cskeleton\u201d of Biden\u2019s national security enterprise is much the same as Obama\u2019s, part of an effort to return policymaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/policy\/2021\/06\/after-trump-chaos-national-security-seeks-return-regular-order\/174722\/\">regular order<\/a> after a tumultuous period under President Donald Trump. (Obama\u2019s national security apparatus, by contrast, was regularly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/robert-gates-former-defense-secretary-offers-harsh-critique-of-obamas-leadership-in-duty\/2014\/01\/07\/6a6915b2-77cb-11e3-b1c5-739e63e9c9a7_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">criticized<\/a> as too large and filled with too many young and unqualified policy staffers.) But NSC officials also have new priorities that reflect how threats to the United States have evolved over the years that Biden was out of office, including more focus on evolving technology, energy, and climate change, and added instability due to the COVID-19 pandemic.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have\u2026a broader constellation of actors around the table,\u201d Sullivan said. \u201cThat\u2019s probably the biggest way in which things have evolved.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden regularly deviates from the recommendations made by his national security team, one of his top advisors revealed Thursday.\u00a0National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said Biden overruling decisions from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":505,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1443001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/505"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1443001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1443001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1443001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1443001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}