The truth is that Trump is so far over his head in the Oval Office that he cedes more power to both the retired generals in his administration and the active ones in the Pentagon every day — which is a stunning blow to notion of civilian control of the military that has kept the United States as a functioning democracy all these years. With little fanfare, Trump's 84-day nightmare has apparently included loosening restrictions aimed at preventing civilian casualties in America's bottomless shrimp bowl of wars. The tracking website Airwars.org is seeing incidents of civilian casualties from U.S. bombing in Syria and Iraq that far exceeds the Obama years. Trump said today after news of the Afghanistan bomb broke that "what I do is authorize my military," implying our civilian commander-in-chief has handed the keys to the men in uniform. That's not how it's supposed to work.