[TEXOKIE]

Excerpt from GE Post 46 from Brian Cates:

“...If you want to understand how untethered to reality the DC #SmartSet is/was on Syria, recall when the CIA-backed Syrian rebels were fighting the Pentagon-backed Syrian rebels...snip

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1075609400805613573.html

2CND COLUMN ON SYRIA:

Syria is over. ISIS is whipped & we have no reason to be there in the middle of a civil war [GCC is handling it, Assad will be gone soon anyway].

Everybody melting down about how ISIS will make some huge comeback now that Americans won’t be there LEADING the mission are delusional.

We had 2,000 troops and we weren’t LEADING jack shit there, we were 100% support. The fight against ISIS is OVER.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1075888040982269961.html";

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WOW AGAIN!

[stars & stripes forever]

[thinden]

Worth repeating:

Excerpt from GE Post 46 from Brian Cates:

“...If you want to understand how untethered to reality the DC #SmartSet is/was on Syria, recall when the CIA-backed Syrian rebels were fighting the Pentagon-backed Syrian rebels...snip

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1075609400805613573.html

2CND COLUMN ON SYRIA:

Syria is over. ISIS is whipped & we have no reason to be there in the middle of a civil war [GCC is handling it, Assad will be gone soon anyway].

Everybody melting down about how ISIS will make some huge comeback now that Americans won’t be there LEADING the mission are delusional.

We had 2,000 troops and we weren’t LEADING jack shit there, we were 100% support. The fight against ISIS is OVER.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1075888040982269961.html";;

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WOW AGAIN!

[little jeremiah]

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1075888040982269961.html";;

The above link to Brian Cates’ thread doesn’t work but if the “; is taken off it does, just in case anyone didn’t get through to it:

Syria is over. ISIS is whipped & we have no reason to be there in the middle of a civil war [GCC is handling it, Assad will be gone soon anyway].

Everybody melting down about how ISIS will make some huge comeback now that Americans won’t be there LEADING the mission are delusional.

We had 2,000 troops and we weren’t LEADING jack shit there, we were 100% support. The fight against ISIS is OVER.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1075888040982269961.html

[Disestablishmentarian]

It’s about “time” on Afghanistan.

Literally.

The Taliban’s favorite expression: You have the watches, but we have the time.

This withdrawal could have been years ago, next year, 10 years from now or 100 years from now. Why not NOW?

My suspicion has been for years that we are staying there because of the poppies and the heroin. Someone is CASHING IN.

Incidentally, Russia still has lots of heroin addicts from their efforts in Afghanistan. Unlike American soldiers returning from Vietnam, they continued en masse the drug addictions they acquired there.