A-10 Warthog
Posted on 12/08/2017 8:10:57 AM PST by blam
BAGHDAD – Hundreds of ISIS fighters had just been chased out of a northern Syrian city and were fleeing through the desert in long convoys, presenting an easy target to U.S. A-10 "warthogs."
But the orders to bomb the black-clad jihadists never came, and the terrorists melted into their caliphate -- living to fight another day. The events came in August 2016, even as then-Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump was vowing on the campaign trail to let generals in his administration crush the organization that, under President Obama, had grown from the “jayvee team” to the world’s most feared terrorist organization.
“I will…quickly and decisively bomb the hell out of ISIS,” Trump, who would name legendary Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis as secretary of defense, promised. “We will not have to listen to the politicians who are losing the war on terrorism."
Just over a year later, ISIS has been routed from Iraq and Syria with an ease and speed that's surprised even the men and women who carried out the mission. Experts say it's a prime example of a campaign promise kept. President Trump scrapped his predecessor’s rules of engagement, which critics say hamstrung the military, and let battlefield decisions be made by the generals in the theater, and not bureaucrats in Washington.
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A-10 Warthog
Yes, the A-10 Warthog is an old platform, but still a GREAT one. I feel it is still a vital part of our ground-attack air capability!
And yet, all we hear is “Trump hasn’t gotten anything done”.
Yeah, right, except changing the world.
God Bless President Trump, General Mattis, and the US military, past, present, and future!!!
MAGA
That pic looks like it is a University of Arkansas Razorback mascot!
How come the Presstitutes aren’t hounding Obama to get his statements about this defeat of his muslim friends.
Just over a year later, ISIS has been routed from Iraq and Syria with an ease and speed that’s surprised even the men and women who carried out the mission. Experts say it’s a prime example of a campaign promise kept. President Trump scrapped his predecessor’s rules of engagement, which critics say hamstrung the military, and let battlefield decisions be made by the generals in the theater, and not bureaucrats in Washington.
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Too bad we didn’t have someone like Trump during Vietnam.
Great job on enemies foreign. No “MAD DOG” on enemies domestic.
C’mon 2018. We the people...ALERT!
ISIS CEO Obama is deeply saddened.
“And yet, all we hear is “Trump hasn’t gotten anything done”.”
He’s kept the left so completely distracted with minutiae they can’t interfere. The bombast aimed at him keeps getting lobbed back at them instead.
We don’t want anymore dead soldiers. Time to end this.
The tweeting does resemble a psychological warfare campaign a bit.
A quartet of those beasts on that initial ISIS column and there very well might never have been any ISIS past that moment.
"The first time you blow someone away is not an insignificant event. That said, there are some sh-heads in the world that just need to be shot. There are hunters and there are victims.
By your discipline, you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim."
Marine General James Mattis
Source: We Are the Mighty
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I was thinking the same thing...
Ping
It resembles a very successful PSYOPS campaign! No wonder they’re outraged that Trump is tweeting! Greatest. Pres. Ever!
Too bad we didn’t have someone like Trump during Vietnam.
If Nixon had won in 60 instead of Kennedy we would not have
had LBJ running the Vietnam war out of his jeep in Texas.
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