Posted on 04/13/2017 3:41:05 PM PDT by 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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Who are you, the ghost of Ted Kennedy?
The Middle East is always a mess, but Syria is a particular danger right now - ready to fall to ISIS/al Queda, or become a virtual vassal of the Iranian mullahs.
We are still paying for Carter’s screwup in letting Iran fall to our enemies. Whoever would be President (if they were loyal to America), would have to drive that situation toward a resolution that does not leave our mortal enemies in charge.
That house is on fire now. The time for action is now. If not us, it will be our long term enemies. The enemy gets a vote.
I don’t have a crystal ball, but I’ll predict it won’t be ISIS or the so-called Free Syrian Rebels that take over Damascus. It’s likely going to be the already entrenched government apparatus, which is run by the Syrian Ba’ath party. The idea of ISIS or Islamic caliphate takeover is unlikely.
The point is, the idea is slim of anyone taking over without an extreme bloodbath and repression beyond anything the younger Assad ever practiced
Trump just said a couple of days ago that he is not going into Syria.
Doesn’t need congress. He is the commander of military and can send troops anywhere he can support them with enough funds to work. If Congress feels it has been misled in authorizing war, or it disagrees with the president’s decisions, all it need do is cut off funds, either all at once or gradually.
It can reduce the size of the military, shrink or eliminate units, or freeze supplies. Using the power of the purse does not even require affirmative congressional action.
Congress can just sit on its hands and refuse to pass a law funding the latest presidential adventure, and the war will end quickly. But it is not a war, just like Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, or many other conflicts.
And I have to admit that dissecting the hangers that the attacking aircraft came from that dropped the Sarin and attacked the hospital and not harming any other parts of the facility is not a war. It’s a damn smart move. Especially when Assad said he got rid of the stuff years earlier and agreed not to use it anymore during the process.
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LOL! This will get the concern trolls foaming at the mouth. They tend to want to believe every bad thing said about Trump.
Let me guess, the people now advising Trump to invade and occupy Syria are the same idiots he listened to when he completely screwed up the obamacare repeal.
I don’t shrug anything off.
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