Posted on 04/13/2017 3:41:05 PM PDT by blam
It appears that Mike Cernovich, who earlier this week wrote that Trump's national security advisor, Gen. H.R.McMaster, was planning on sending as many as 150,000 troops to Syria, may have been right again. According to Bloomberg commentator Eli Lake, who has now made a habit of confirming Cernovich "conspiracy theories" (he did so previously with the Susan Rice scoop), Trump may be on the verge of escalating the proxy war in Syria by sending anywhere between 10,000 and 50,000 troops on the ground, and - if Cernovich is indeed correct - as much as three times more.
Per Lake, after U-turning on attacking Syria last week and on a variety of economic policies yesterday, the Donald Trump's "biggest foreign policy surprise may be yet to come." Specifically, he says that McMaster, has been quietly pressing his colleagues to question the underlying assumptions of a draft war plan against the Islamic State that would maintain only a light U.S. ground troop presence in Syria." McMaster's critics inside the administration say he wants to send tens of thousands of ground troops to the Euphrates River Valley. His supporters insist he is only trying to facilitate a better interagency process to develop Trump's new strategy to defeat the self-described caliphate that controls territory in Iraq and Syria."
To be sure, there have been ground troops, typically special forces, in Syria since 2014, when Barack Obama famously flipflopped on his own promise of "no more boots on the ground", first in Iraq and then the broader region.
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I’m with Trump, but I’m not with this move, if true.
Thanks Be-Baw. I hadn’t paid much attention to them until last year, and then it seemed like just about everything they put out was in some way negative toward Trump.
Hey, if there was anything substantive to it, then fine. There isn’t. It’s all fluff negative nonsense.
I agree with you. If it’s this wildly off, who needs it.
Good point. And the logistics are enormous along with the costs. There is no way President Trump can unilaterally send 50,000 troops into combat. Congressional approval would be necessary.
Does anyone really believe all these made-up stories that come out by the bushel-full each and every day? This is how the Left got practically everyone to believe the global warming farce. Just put put stuff, any stuff, out there every day and because people will be exposed to it and see it in print, they’ll believe it...like they always believe their worst fears.
People...99.999% of EVERYTHING you see and read is fiction...complete bulls**t. It’s created so the huge proportion of the human race that had no ability to do anything useful can make a living. Just like politics.
I have a buddy at the CIA that has insider sources at the FBI, that heard from the State department that Trump is sending 5 million troops next week actually.
Did he mention the other 3 million to defend South Korea?
Maybe the Troops are to defend South Korea?
yeah, here we go again...
TG
I don’t believe it.
Lol! We don’t have 15000 combat ready troops. Not even 50000. We have only a couple of Divisions and some Marines. Most of the Army is REMFs.
ZeroHedge again.
Ping me to help you next time. I can’t do much, but I’ll do what I can.
Knew this crap would happen.
How about they just send the rapefugges back home and tell them to clean up their mess
I think some people buy into it because it feeds their agenda. Most of us recognize this as nonsense. Trump said he has no designs on going into Syria. Don’t know how much more clear he could make it.
Your comments ring too close to truth for the good of the nation. That’s all I know.
Good post! The same people get all worked up every single time. Maybe they just crave drama.
It's not true.
President Trump, just a day or two ago, personally reiterated the fact that we will not be going into Syria. Period. End of story. See:
Trump: ‘We’re not going into Syria’
“We’re not going into Syria,” he told Michael Goodwin in an exclusive interview. “Our policy is the same, it hasn’t changed. We’re not going into Syria.”I hope that's clear enough...
FAKE FAKE FAKE NEWS!
Insane.
Muslims first.
You’re not the only one. Debka finally disappeared from the FR. Time to zot this chicken little Tyler Durden.
This was back in the day when I was able to become a coupon master at Walgreens .order product by the case load..get most of it for free or even make money. It was a whole operation. It took over my house. I spent hours a day a walgreens . My house looked like a warehouse.
It was very rewarding. I used anysoldier.com to pick my people. So many had no one to send them anything and the px would run out.
President Trump already said this is not going to happen. Some of the threads here on FR have become ridiculous.
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