Posted on 10/10/2019 2:04:53 AM PDT by robowombat
I stopped reading right there. Oh the Hugemannity.
I stand with President Trump!
They won't, so they should shut up.
Yup. And until they do, President Trump can tell them to pound sand. He alone is the CinC of the armed forces.
If you play the ‘stay-in-Syria’ scenario....it’s basically an open-ended deployment for thirty years, and try to pretend that you partition Syria off with no real public understanding that you were inventing a Kurdish homeland....where a hundred years ago...few if any Kurds existed.
It’s not our job to partition lands, or act like some fake guard unit. I’d also invite people to review the Kurd history of the past hundred years and the number of occasions that they went after and killed Christians in Syria.
I didn’t know a president/CIC required a declaration of peace from Congress before withdrawing from a war/non-war.
Whatever side one comes down on the merits, no one can seriously dispute that the process was appallingly mishandled by this administration. The president should have sold his decision to congressional leaders, even Democrats, instead of leaving himself vulnerable on the eve of impeachment so unnecessarily.
Let us let Bishop Romney decide.
Bishop was RIGHT to impose ObamaCARE/ROmneyCARE (to help Bain)
and the Bishop Romney was RIGHT when he imposed his homosexual marriages
by fiat (and against the Mass. Constitution).
........... /s(is this really necessary?)
Was war declared?
While I normally agree with you on military matters, all of the only appropriate responses to the intellectual diarrhea you just tried to submit are both scatological and profane.
Go find a declared and funded war to talk about, and only then can you rationally make that assertion.
I agree. I’d like to know who advised the administration to do this.
What used to be one or two key committee chairs getting money from black ops under the table must now be spread around like the rest of the Pentagon budget to ensure that Critters in every State gets a bit.
I stand with the Prez. Why waste our American Treasure getting killed, maimed and the Lord know what by these animals. They have been fighting for hundreds of years let them kill each other.
I'd like to know whether any of this was vetted?
I cannot maintain that this is what happened but the reports I read tell me the president got off the phone with Erdogan and surprised the world by announcing this policy. Yes, I know that this had been part of his campaign and I know that he had mooted the subject of withdrawing troops from Syria some time ago, but how was this vetted?
Was the president apprised fully of the effect it would have on Congress? Was the president advised about the damage to the Kurds? Was the president advised about the possible damage to him in the impeachment fiasco? Was the president advised about the potential consequences of securing other allies, especially Muslim allies, to fight our battles for us? Was the president apprised of the rather large political and geopolitical downside consequences of his decision and the relatively paltry upside advantages to his decision? Was this the right place and the right time to effect his stated policy (with which I agree in general terms) of withdrawing American forces from endless, fruitless wars?
Let’s see... Events seem to indicate that Trump knew about Turkey’s plans and pulled our 50 troops out of harm’s way ahead of the invasion. Those 50 were never going to stop an invasion, but were in prime position to get killed for nothing.
Trump did the right thing.
Why did we have troops there in the first place? Why do we have troops scattered all over the world? Any use of the military for other than national defense and to provide humanitarian aid on a limited basis is misuse.
[I’d like to know who advised the administration to do this.]
No offense, but that’s idiotic. Selling a decision to withdraw troops from a place where they were never supposed to be in the first place is preposterous. That’s like saying the President should have sold his decision to Congress on ending Obama’s totally illegal DACA executive order before canceling it.
Remember when Congress got their panties in a wad when B.O.pulled the many troops out of Iraq? Me neither.
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