combatant has won major battles but lost his self-declared war. Being forced to hear the 

 

line "you're fired" and leave his last stronghold in Washington after his removal from 

 

the National Security Council in April, this advisor to the US president has been 

 

banished from the inner circle by the trend of history.

 

No doubt his startling phone conversation with Robert Kuttner, co-founder and co-editor 

 

of The American Prospect, was the final straw that helped sink this warmonger. He would 

 

not have expected his desperate reaching-out to one more like-minded supporter to create 

 

such a stir.

 

The US president himself may not have liked it because Bannon's confession that there is 

 

"no military solution" to the Korean Peninsula crisis compromised Donald Trump's verbal 

 

claim that the United States would release "fire and fury" against the Democratic 

 

People's Republic of Korea. Other presidential aides, both his allies and foes in the 

 

White House, may have distanced themselves from Bannon as well for his revelation of the