Posted on 01/01/2019 6:34:20 PM PST by familyop
President Donald Trump late last week told the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria that he could have several months to pull 2,000 troops out of Syria, backtracking on his initial order for a full and rapid withdrawal within 30 days, The New York Times reports. The report came after Trump tweeted that “we’re slowly sending out troops back home.” U.S. officials told the Times the conversation between Trump and Lt. Gen. Paul J. LaCamera took place during the president’s surprise trip to Iraq.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
Again Trump shows he is disciplined and patient. This trait throws a thumb in the eye of those that have conjured up an image of Trump as being some sort of loose cannon.
Believable?
Troop flexibility and adaptation is a key component of the Trump doctrine.
Why didn’t you post the NYT article that was linked in the NewsMax article?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/31/us/politics/trump-troop-withdrawal-syria-months.html
Aka as ‘chaos’ by the democrats ...
Trump never said that he would pull all the troops immediately. Quite the opposite, Trump said at many of his rallies that he would not advertise timetables for military actions. . NYT again puts words into his mouth.
“backtracking on his initial order for a full and rapid withdrawal within 30 days”
First timetabke I heard of was 100 days.
The Trump Rope-A-Dope strategy in play again, and the NYT etc fell for it.
Next “Fake news” - “U.S. combat troops to leave Mexican Border; Expected home for Easter after stop-over at Ramstead AF Base””.
The never ending story will soon be repeated.
JMHo
Do you think it would take General Patton weeks or months to relocate 2,000 troops?
Dragging this out is more Deep State farce.
The Kristol Krowd would love for it to take a few years to withdraw a few thousand soldiers, so that he next president can ignore the role of Congress and send more back in. Remember when the 'last convoy of American troops left Iraq' - seven years ago...
Sometimes I think Trump throws some policy statements out there just to see which Republicans will expose themselves as backstabbing traitors. The Syria announcement exposed “Moderate Dog” Mattis for the war merchant tool that he is.
President Trump is the Commander-in-Chief and must do what is necessary to defend the United States.
* Many of us see the seriousness of the situation building up and want to stop it.
* Others are addicted since childhood to tempting consequences and want it to happen quickly. Anything for excitement for them. They like conspiracy theories and other enemy propaganda because of their compulsive nature. Their political problem is that their truly favorite politicians are like Hillary, but she’ll disarm them, shut them up and put them on the streets. They’re easily bored and soon “tired of winning.”
* Most people simply want to be ignorant and follow the faction that makes the most noise, as most people did before each of the previous world wars were brought to us.
I suggest that conscientious and caring people pay closer attention to what’s going on in places like Ukraine and Venezuela (and many other places) and prepare for what may be ahead.
Yeah, pretty much. I’m okay with them taking a few months if there is an agreed an set in motion timeline for it.
But this likely is just more Deep Swampy stuff.
Good to know that Trump is still at least thinking right on it though.
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