Nick Paton Walsh: ‘I Have Absolutely No Idea’ What Changed with Trump When He Was Aligned with Mattis a Year Ago

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PATON WALSH: "I have absolutely no idea. I think big about the last 72 hours that's perhaps the most scary is that we don’t really know what the motivations were inside Donald Trump’s head that made him reverse these two key decisions that he appeared to have gone along with sort of consensus of wisdom about. Syria, yeah, but Afghanistan to me was shocking. His officials right now are having their first face-to-face talks with Taliban officials, trying to come up with some kind of political accommodation, and it’s utterly bizarre. It's like in that poker game Donald Trump walks behind his own team and shouts out they are bluffing, he takes away the one card that they seem to have there, which is the U.S. troop strength and presence and the ability to assist the Afghan forces. It's utterly staggering, frankly.”