What seems to be lost to our elected representatives is; what would have happened had all those who sit on this most important of bodies, the National Security Council were they all to send their body guards into a meeting of the NSC in their stead?
I can see it now. Ex Federal cop says to ex pub bouncer, "I recon we should invade Indonesia......what ya recon? Yeh great idea......got the number of the head of defense?"
What a complete shambles. The lunatics are running the asylum.