“I just know that Trump promised to bring the troops home and that I’m going to be hard pressed to defend his statement against the trolls and the libertarians I talk with on other sites.”
I would tell them he’s done a lot of “getting out”, and yet in war the enemy gets a vote. You have to set adversaries back on their heels so you can leave without things falling apart. Iran has just been set back on its heels after attacking us multiple times over the last year. They overplayed their hand and paid the price. And I would predict to them that there will be no war, unless Iran is suicidal. Trump is in the driver’s seat, Iran is being drug down the road behind the car.
” They overplayed their hand and paid the price. And I would predict to them that there will be no war, unless Iran is suicidal. “
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Second THAT.
The leadership may well be suicidal, but Trump I believe will leave room for the IRANIAN people to rise up and have a Voice and they will be protected, somehow, at some point.
Trump wants a future for them, as well. He’s like that.
“I would tell them he’s done a lot of “getting out”, and yet in war the enemy gets a vote. You have to set adversaries back on their heels so you can leave without things falling apart. Iran has just been set back on its heels after attacking us multiple times over the last year. They overplayed their hand and paid the price. And I would predict to them that there will be no war, unless Iran is suicidal. Trump is in the driver’s seat, Iran is being drug down the road behind the car.”
That’s good advice but the trolls twist anything and the libertarians are simple minded and want Trump to just order the troops to start leaving everywhere right now without even packing up the equipment. (they want the equipment destroyed or given to the locals)