Posted on 10/18/2019 9:19:38 PM PDT by rintintin
When Lindsey Graham, Donald Trump’s best pal in the Senate, is calling in to “Fox & Friends” to say that his Syrian withdrawal is “shortsighted and irresponsible,” the president has a problem.
Graham, who went from Trump’s bitter campaign to golfing buddy, ripped the “impulsive decision” for having “undone all the gains we’ve made” against ISIS.
What’s more, the South Carolina senator, a foreign policy hawk, didn’t get so much as a heads-up from Trump.
“The Syria decision on its face is indefensible,” Fox News contributor Jonah Goldberg told me. “The way he went about it, if the reporting is accurate, is indefensible. Republicans were looking for something they could criticize him on that didn’t amount to aiding and abetting impeachment.”
The widespread criticism from Republicans and some conservative commentators doesn’t automatically mean the president made the wrong call. He ran against endless wars and had obviously grown tired of having U.S. troops stationed in northern Syria. Much of the public may side with him. But in media and political circles the withdrawal is viewed as abandoning our Kurdish allies, who helped turn the tide against ISIS, to a potential massacre by the Turks, who view them as terrorists.
It’s Trump’s one-man rule—his own Pentagon was blindsided by the announcement—that sometimes alienates his natural allies.
Most Republicans have stood by the president on Russia, on Ukraine, on impeachment. But the Syria decision drew sharp criticism from Nikki Haley, Marco Rubio, Liz Cheney—even Mitch McConnell.
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And now, will the real strawman please stand up!!!
Pis_ing off all the right people. Throw Bolton in there and you have a straight!
I think that would be a straight flush! With emphasis properly applied.
“I think it’s about defense contractor donations.”
I think you’re right.
It’s a NATO problem. Let NATO go in and do...whatever...
I listen to the hawks complain that we have lost our position while giving the Russians, Turks, Syrians and Iranians a huge victory and I wonder what is it that we lost and they won exactly? We can still exert major influence in the region economically without risking one more American casualty should we choose to. What American national security interest does this region require the sacrifice of more American blood, treasure and resolve? Prestige? Pride? Fifty years ago I fought for my country. Have we forgotten those lessons? War should be the last resort and in the national interest. I don’t see that here. End the endless deployments.
Can you tell us how many Kurds Turkey has killed since Trump removed the 25 troops? After all, you are stating Turkey is committing genocide.
Put up or shoot yourself.
Since when Goldberg a conservative pundit?
As long as the PKK is part of the Kurd-landscape, I don’t see any reason to be helpful.
These people fund the deep state for their own self serving purposes.. I cannot figure out how any of their constituents or their ‘oath’ to protect and defend the US Constitution applies to the Kurds. These fakes have year in and year out refused to protect US border... but pulling a few US troops from a centuries old blood feud gets them all stirred up as if they were about to lose an election..
Had a black female coworker say something about “Trump and Syria”, the other day.
I told her Obama and Hillary brought slavery back to Africa when they toppled Libya. I told her how and why that came about and that Hillary and Obama were evil people.She had tears in her eyes. No further mention of “Trump and Syria” for the remainder of the shift.
This is a total disaster.
Exceeding Obama’s incompetence..
Honestly, I cannot believe folks that that I have known for most of my life and who I never doubted were true Conservatives would put the lives of their kids serving throughout the world would buy into the bullshit of an orange haired ankle spurred NY liberal ...
Make no mistake your votes for this fool will end in the destruction of this Country...
HOW LONG would you suggest we stay AND lose lives and limbs in the Middle East 20 years is long enough Bin Laden is dead his son is dead let these 3rd world hate mongers take care of their own hell hole!!!
Oh and by the way the ASSHAT Dems have let these hate mongers migrate into this country HELL they have elected these hate mongers right into our government YET we should leave our young men and women in some sandy hell hole to protect this country, get them the HELL out of this country AND our government then we’ll talk!!!
Oooo... look, a NeverTrumper!!!
As long as it takes...
Those folks are determined to destroy this country this year, next year, ten years from now a thousand years from now...
Beginning with Korea and the surrender in Vietnam we have lost..not because our fine warriors in the field lost but because the chicken sh*t politicians now including Trump have lost and squandered their lives.
“Conservative pundits and pols are denouncing Trump.” Conservatives? Does Fox think we are that stupid? Graham and the rest are members of the Deep State in good standing. Graham likes to visit the area on occasion for the Bache Basi. The Turks are our allies like RINOs are conservatives. They were funding ISIS by buying convoys full of oil from them. We train soldiers over there and they turn their guns on U.S. soldiers.
Read your argument, it is a good one. I'll go with the President's explanation. I used to think like you.
The President is right. Be on his side or find yourself helping our ideological opposites. Period.
He is exposing all kinds of manure, daily. And on “our own side”.
It is painful and gratifying at the same time.
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