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Will Trump listen to General ‘Mad Dog’ Mattis's rare sober analysis and step back from war?
Defence Secretary James Mattis sits in front of Vice President Mike Pence, US President Donald Trump and national security adviser John Bolton

DONALD TRUMP’S inability to hold an idea in his head for longer than the average goldfish has left Theresa May doing her own fishy mouth-popping impressions, incapable of making a decision about Syria.

The “strong and stable” Prime Minister body-swerved our elected Parliament to push through a Cabinet decision to back military action after Trump’s infantile warning to Moscow to get ready for US missiles.

May, like every British prime minister since Winston Churchill, is so obsessed by the myth of a “special relationship” with Washington that she wanted to be sworn in as first deputy in the US sheriff’s posse.

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