Bob Woodward is an American journalist whose reporting exposed the biggest political scandal in US history, Watergate, forcing President Richard Nixon to resign. He has written more than 20 books in the last 50 years of his presidency and has twice won the Pulitzer Prize, the world's largest journalism award. Bob is rightly called the chronicler of the White House.
'RAGE' (meaning outrage or outrage) is his second book on the most controversial presidency of President Trump in US history, in which he has sharply criticized the performance of President Trump. In his opinion, this man is absolutely unsuitable for this position.
Significantly, unlike his previous book, FEAR, for which President Trump refused to cooperate, President Trump has given seventeen interviews for RAGE, with a total duration of nine hours. The book also includes information from more than 100 interviews with key current and former Trump administration officials.
In addition, diaries, White House tapes, and other records from these sources have been used. He asserted that his confession had been obtained through torture, and that his confession had been obtained through torture. Much of the book deals with President Trump's irresponsibility during the Corona epidemic.
He says the United States accounts for 4% of the world's population, but 25% of coronavirus deaths occur here. In addition, President Trump's decisions regarding US domestic and foreign policies during his presidency and the strained or uneven relations with his own staff have been criticized. The book also discusses Russia's cyber-interference in US elections and the president's impeachment of Ukraine. It may be recalled that in February 2020, a US court acquitted him of both charges as no charges were proved.
In addition to this criticism, the book unwittingly reveals some facts that the media did not focus on, such as President Trump, since the beginning of his presidency, and most of the US military world. Have been against the presence in parts.
He called for the withdrawal of US troops from the country. He has been angry at the US military spending on the defense of the NATO military alliance, South Korea and Japan. He said the cost of keeping 32,000 troops in South Korea was سا 4.5 billion, of which South Korea paid only 800 800 million. Bob says his own administration has made it difficult for him to understand that NATO needs America, not Europe, and that the presence of troops in South Korea is, in fact, to keep the United States safe.
Trump's first defense secretary, James Mattis, resigned in protest of ISIS's defeat in Syria in 2018, in which Trump withdrew troops from Syria without consulting him. Mattis said that the ISIS in Syria could rise again at any time, so a permanent presence of US troops is necessary and the Kurds, who have been fighting against ISIS on a large scale on behalf of the United States, are also threatened by Turkey. The president replied, "You want us to always fight."
It should be noted that the Mets were also involved in the Obama administration and were deposed for lobbying for an attack on Iran at a time when Obama was negotiating a nuclear deal with Iran. Throughout the book, chapters appear to be frustrated by the president's lack of interest in the war and his constant admiration of war supporters, especially the Mets. Bob seems to be the victim of war demons with the American establishment and neo-conservative elements.
Bob also says that the trade war with China is Trump's only policy on which both parties are united and stand with Trump. Trump says no strategy has been adopted under the Obama administration, realizing the threat posed by China's emerging economy. The extent to which this claim is true is debatable, but the president favors his protectionist (protectionist or tariff-based) trade policy, rather than free trade. As soon as they arrived, they imposed tariffs on steel, which damaged relations with many countries.
In the book, it seems that Bob is with the American war-mad establishment. For example, in the chapters on Defense Secretary James Mattis, Bob has made an emotional statement in support of him. The mother of a soldier killed in Afghanistan or Iraq has been asked why the United States does not send 90,000 troops to Afghanistan instead of 30. (To avenge his son by ensuring US victory in Afghanistan and Iraq) Surprising support for the Iraq-Afghanistan war from a world-renowned journalist in the name of seemingly impartial reporting happens.
It would be more appropriate to refer to mothers like Cindy Sheehan, who started a peace movement after losing her son in Iraq and Afghanistan, saying that her son should be killed, Afghan or Iraqi, or American. That's it. Cindy also said that my son was not killed to protect America. Bob did not comment on the legitimacy of the Iraq war in which the Mets participated.
