Posted on 04/18/2018 3:35:41 PM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
Sen. Lindsey Graham slammed the Trump administration's response in Syria, after a briefing with top military officials that he said "unnerved" him, CBS News' Alan He reports.
"Everything in that briefing made me more worried, not less," the South Carolina Republican said after a briefing lawmakers had with Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford on Tuesday. "This makes no sense to me."
Graham went on to say he doesn't know "how in the world we can destroy ISIL relying on local police in a country dominated" by Syrian President Bashar Assad, who the U.S. believes is responsible for the recent suspected chemical attack that left dozens dead. Graham feared that if the U.S. stays on its current course, Syria will fall into the hands of the Russians and Iranians, which would be a nightmare scenario for Israel. Graham said there is no military strategy currently on the table to deal with the influence of Iran and Russia.
"It seems to me we are willing to give Syria to Assad, Russia, and Iran, and we're trying to find some way to leave Syria to keep ISIL destroyed, and I don't see how that works. I hope I am wrong."
"I think Assad after this strike believes we're all tweet and no action," Graham said.
Only weeks ago, Mr. Trump insisted he wanted to pull troops out of Syria, and even after the strikes the U.S. conducted last week, the Trump administration has insisted the mission in Syria remains the same -- destroy ISIS.
In terms of timing for withdrawing from Syria, withdrawal timing, Graham said it seemed like it would be, "conditions-based, but as soon as possible."
"It seems to me the president is going to pull out of Syria as soon as he can," Graham said.
Lindsey’s got his silk panties in a knot.
Yep. I don’t like a show of force in one country to impress another (as the argument is Trump and Mattis did this to send a message to North Korea), when it is predicated on a lie, pretending a false flag is true.
But at least Trump seems on course to at least try not to extend and escalate our role there.
Well, no -- there isn't.
Iran and Russia didn't invade Syria. They have a military presence there because the Syrian government asked for their help.
I’d like to see Lindsey and Assad in a match fight. Let them duke it out.
Graham must be OTR, fluttering his fan in a spell of vapors.
So, how was it decided to attack syrian chemical sites? That is, what was so “upsetting” to Linda, in as much as she got the continued involvement the mcain/linda and hitlery crowd has wanted to escalate. We sent a signal to Iran- which still has 20k Iranian militia on the ground (the Kurds could take them out with our help- if we could keep that loon Erdogan off their tails). Trump is rightly not telegraphing our moves. But did send a signal to the russians, et al. So next should be Iran, and take out their nuke plants obamaumao and kerry facilitated. sign of this is the belligerent rhetoric from Iran today on ‘which weapons we choose to have being their business’ kind of bull. The clintons still helping them. Disgusting.
I wonder who is paying Graham? He certainly has no principles.
Syria is the most spectacular part of BHO’s Arab Spring that was to create a sort of restored Califat.
“So, how was it decided to attack syrian chemical sites? That is, what was so “upsetting” to Linda”
“Linda” didn’t make the decision. Trump did and he had plenty of input from DOD and intelligence advisors.
know that. the questioon was... specifically what did “Linda” find so ‘unnerving’ ie. what did not fit the mccainiac gang’s plans from the benghazi gun running to Syrian “moderates”, to perpetuate the conflict for their interests and not the US national interests. Or is it too top secret for Linda to share (lol)? Let us know Linda, so we can further dissect how deep up the “state” and how false you are.
What political Beltway military contractor bandits who send cash to Linda... are upset, as a result? imho this is the way to think of it. Because the contractors have to replace the weapons— and that means.... contracts and stock bumps.
If the nerve gas attack was faked by linda/mccain’s “moderates” it is brilliant for trump to have had a missile attack directed at non-sites— just to show with a pulled punch what we can do, without letting too much capabilities out of the bag. keep that branch of milindustrials “happy” while he focuses on what is really important- bigger things.
Graham is a media pandering Pussy.
Go suck an egg, Pansy Linda. Someone needs to leak your blackmail file.
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