By Sarah Binder ,James Goldgeier and Elizabeth N. Saunders @ WashingtonPost.com, Feb. 2

On Thursday, the Senate voted 68 to 23 to rebuke President Trump over his decision to pull military forces from Afghanistan and Syria. The vote came after the president’s intelligence chiefs publiclycontradicted his assessment of national security threats.

These events reflect both the unusual nature of the Trump administration and longer-term trends in the politics of national security. Here are three takeaways [....]

In an interview in the Oval Office, Mr. Trump called the talks “a waste of time” and indicated he will most likely take action on his own when they officially end in two weeks....“I think Nancy Pelosi is hurting our country very badly by doing what she’s doing and, ultimately, I think I’ve set the table very nicely,” Mr. Trump...suggested he plans to declare a national emergency to build the wall. “I’ve set the table,” he said. “I’ve set the stage for doing what I’m going to do.”

Note the constant repetition of the personal pronoun... and if you "set the stage" for a national emergency, is it really an emergency, or just "all about him", a hoax?

Fred Galvin and six other Marines were smeared by a Taliban lie that was amplified by senior U.S. officers. Now Galvin’s permanent record will be wiped clean, an extraordinary affirmation of his claim that their reputations were destroyed by the military’s effort to imprison the men.

By Andrew deGrandpre @ WashingtonPost.com, Jan. 31

A Marine veteran who fought the Pentagon for 12 years over a war-crimes case brought against him and six others will have his permanent record wiped clean, an extraordinary affirmation of his claim that their reputations were destroyed by the military’s effort to imprison the men.

The Marines were members of an elite commando force expelled from Afghanistan in 2007 amid unproven allegations that they massacred innocent bystanders in the frantic minutes following an ambush. They were cleared of wrongdoing more than a year later, after the case was heard by a military court, but have maintained that senior leaders did little to set the record straight and, consequently, fostered the stigma that has dogged them ever since.

A report approved in January by the Navy Department is a major victory for retired Maj. Fred Galvin, the Marines’ commanding officer. Its conclusions, he says, are a rebuke of those who condemned his men before the facts were clear, the investigator whose work was shown in court to be sloppy and the generals who refused Galvin’s pleas for public absolution [....]

the story recommend is by the current Moscow correspondent for the NYTimes:

By Jon Lockett @ thesun.co.uk, including video and photos

The trend was highlighted when a Thai starlet was caught on camera wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with a swastika on the eve of International Holocaust Remembrance Day