A useful take on Bannon & Trump's executive order regarding refugrees and visas. I vote for more incompetence, since we're guaranteed the malevolent intentions.
Note that the author of this anlaysis is a pretty reliable apologist usually for so-called "counterterrorism" efforts. Note this from his assessment of this executive order:
[I]n the rational pursuit of security objectives, you don’t marginalize your expert security agencies and fail to vet your ideas through a normal interagency process. You don’t target the wrong people in nutty ways when you’re rationally pursuing real security objectives.
When do you do these things? You do these things when you’re elevating the symbolic politics of bashing Islam over any actual security interest. You do them when you’ve made a deliberate decision to burden human lives to make a public point. In other words, this is not a document that will cause hardship and misery because of regrettable incidental impacts on people injured in the pursuit of a public good. It will cause hardship and misery for tens or hundreds of thousands of people because that is precisely what it is intended to do.
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