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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It’s too bad that REMFs will never go away.
You will never get rid of jihadis. All we can do is make it painful for them.
I got more out of it than I put in..but I had to be sort of distant. I couldn’t bear to get close and have one killed.
I got a kick when I would see my package dropped from a helicopter with a bunch of packages. You could always tell mine . I taped every inch that I could
Not a good idea.
I heard that they will be printing the troops on a special 3-D printer at Area 51.
Not liking this....
"We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10,000 miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves," . . .
LBJ when running for President in 1964
Shrug off what you like but no matter what Trump says if people don't yell about anyone around him wanting him to change policy and send troops things can get out of control.
JMHo
Then you should go. They want Asad gone not Isis They created Isis one way or another
Do we even *have* 50,000 troops to send?
Lol, yep, Zero Hedge at it again. You wonder where they come up with this crap.
;)
It’s actually 20 million for S. Korea.
If he’s as wildly off here as I think he is, it would seem a reasoned thing to do.
I’ll admit, I’m seeing a number of very questionable sources showing up these days.
Others pay attention to sources better than I do, and seem to know more about them than I do, so perhaps I’m not the guy to make this determination, but some of these places seem very very iffy.
Ok let Isis stay. What could go wrong? /s
“Its too bad that REMFs will never go away.”
I guess that Soldiers just like hot meals, prompt medical treatment, ammo resupply, and good intel too much.
YUGE mistake.
4/11/2017 Were not going into Syria, Trump told the Posts Michael Goodwin. Our policy is the same it hasnt changed. Were not going into Syria.
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