Trump May Send Up To 50,000 Troops To Syria

Zero Hedge ^ | 4-13-2017 | Tyler Durden

[blam]

It appears that Mike Cernovich, who earlier this week wrote that Trump's national security advisor, Gen. H.R.McMaster, was planning on sending as many as 150,000 troops to Syria, may have been right again. According to Bloomberg commentator Eli Lake, who has now made a habit of confirming Cernovich "conspiracy theories" (he did so previously with the Susan Rice scoop), Trump may be on the verge of escalating the proxy war in Syria by sending anywhere between 10,000 and 50,000 troops on the ground, and - if Cernovich is indeed correct - as much as three times more.

Per Lake, after U-turning on attacking Syria last week and on a variety of economic policies yesterday, the Donald Trump's "biggest foreign policy surprise may be yet to come." Specifically, he says that McMaster, has been quietly pressing his colleagues to question the underlying assumptions of a draft war plan against the Islamic State that would maintain only a light U.S. ground troop presence in Syria." McMaster's critics inside the administration say he wants to send tens of thousands of ground troops to the Euphrates River Valley. His supporters insist he is only trying to facilitate a better interagency process to develop Trump's new strategy to defeat the self-described caliphate that controls territory in Iraq and Syria."

To be sure, there have been ground troops, typically special forces, in Syria since 2014, when Barack Obama famously flipflopped on his own promise of "no more boots on the ground", first in Iraq and then the broader region.

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[tennmountainman]

If true, this is insane.

[Veto!]

Crazy. This is the kind of stuff Bush pulled and we got sucked into agreeing with him.

[dforest]

This better not be true. The idea infuriates me.

[mrsmith]

Tyler has bills to pay.

[be-baw]

Ain’t gonna happen. It would literally require an act of Congress. Ain’t gonna happen.

[RummyChick]

This thread ought to be interesting

[2ndDivisionVet]

Where will they come from? That’s anywhere from a division to a corps to a field army. We don’t have any of those just sitting around with nothing to do. Is he going to re-instate conscription or create an American foreign legion?

[deweyfrank]

Bull Sh!t!!

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[Dogbert41]

So throw the people who voted for Trump under the bus in attempt to obtain the support of the Never Trumpers and the Globalists and the Hillary voters. Hmmm. If so, you can tell how far Bannon has been thrown under the bus.

[Williams]

I do believe Isis has to be destroyed.

[Celtic Conservative]

Didn’t Trump already refute this in a tweet? I seem to recall.

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[Fantasywriter]

Somebody needs to start a cite called FreeGossip, to host all this bilge. I’ve been reading Cernovich’s predictions for ~2 years now. My informal impression is that he’s wrong significantly more often than he’s right, but that if the rumor is sensational enough, he finds it irresistible.

[Forgotten Amendments]

Unless there’s a declaration of war (HA!), the generals should refuse to follow this as an unconstitutional order.

[DoughtyOne]

If this doesn’t come true, I wish someone would turn the lights out at Zero Hedge.

I’m so sick of reading trash from that site on the forum.

[VanDeKoik]

So after he clearly said he wasn’t sending anyone....blog still writes this and the NTs on FR still lap it right up.

[nralife]

I might as well go to DU with all the divide and conquer, probably fake news, intentionally demoralizing threads that are posted here every five minutes.

Right in the Breaking News sidebar there is an article quoting the president saying that we are NOT going into Syria.

[gaijin]

Oh, this will SURELY speed up Building The Wall by YEARS, huh...??

RIDICULOUS.

I love this man so much, but behold the way he is being Swampified.

[Roman_War_Criminal]

1 term President if he does it and possibly the instigator of WWIII