A rational turn at the White House

Lieutenant General Herbert McMaster's appointment as national security adviser has reassured those hoping for a normalisation of the Trump White House.

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Lt Gen McMaster: appointment was a relief
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The appointment of Lieutenant General Herbert "HR" McMaster as Donald Trump's national security adviser, following the ousting of Michael Flynn, has reassured those hoping for a "normalisation" of the Trump White House, says Gideon Rachman in the Financial Times. With James Mattis at the Pentagon, Lt Gen McMaster at the National Security Council and Rex Tillerson at the State Department, the three key foreign policy positions have now all been filled by "rational professionals". That's a relief, given the immense danger of having "an unshackled Donald Trump in charge of the world's most powerful military".

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Emily Hohler
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Emily has worked as a journalist for more than thirty years and was formerly Assistant Editor of MoneyWeek, which she helped launch in 2000. Prior to this, she was Deputy Features Editor of The Times and a Commissioning Editor for The Independent on Sunday and The Daily Telegraph. She has written for most of the national newspapers including The Times, the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, The Evening Standard and The Daily Mail, She interviewed celebrities weekly for The Sunday Telegraph and wrote a regular column for The Evening Standard. As Political Editor of MoneyWeek, Emily has covered subjects from Brexit to the Gaza war.

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