Posted on 12/24/2018 4:24:34 PM PST by COBOL2Java
Monday on CNN’s “New Day,” former National Intelligence Director James Clapper, also a CNN contributor, discussed potential “unintended consequences” of President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria.
Host Erica Hill said, “As we have been reporting, CNN is reporting about so much being unknown at this point and the fact that the concern here is that perhaps the president doesn’t understand how complicated this is, and while a number of Americans support the move to pull troops back, just doing it on a whim could be dangerous.”
Clapper said, “Exactly. I spent 13 years throughout my career in the Pentagon, and the Pentagon is an institution of planning and orderliness. There are all kinds of implications here when you withdraw, particularly doing it as we appear to be doing it in Syria, precipitously. There are all kinds of unintended consequences that will occur here, and it plays havoc in the Pentagon. The other thing, of course, is they are all on pins and needles thinking what is the next tweet we will get about deploying or withdrawing with not a lot of notice.”
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A crapper is more intelligent the Clapper.
I hope it causes the ‘unintended consequence’ of the people realizing they did not need to be in Syria and wake up to the hypocrisy and globalistic goals of the Democrats.
Says the traitor.
Crapper, Pelousy, and all their ilk have created
unintended consequences that just may eat them alive.
I hope I’m around to see it.
Well Obama pulled all the troops out of Iraq and no one seemed to mind, why is this different?
“Unintended Consequences” can have multiple meanings and applications. A veiled threat against the President comes to mind.
James Clapper, best known for being “that intelligence guy who keeps saying dumb things”.
Trump promised it repeatedly during the election campaign & said 6 months ago we would be leaving Syria “soon”.
This jackass clown liar can’t erase those facts. It was the opposite of a “whim”.
I spent a few years at the Pentagon, a place where egos and political priorities drove action as much as mission. Clapper is a disgrace to every uniform he wore.
A disgrace to every position he held.
He doth protest way too much.
Another Clapper Caper.
Except that copper ain’t clean.
Meanwhile liberals praised Obama’s total withdraw of troops from Iraq which led to the spread of ISIS.
When Obama fired Mattis the commie press was all aglow with praise for the Kenyon.
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