Posted on 12/21/2018 4:50:01 AM PST by familyop
...Gen. Jack Keane and Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., are considered the frontrunners to replace Mattis...For Trump to nominate Keane, however, he would have to swallow Keanes hawkish stance...and his recent criticism of the move to pull out of Syria, which the retired general called a huge strategic mistake." Clearly, we're repeating the Obama mistake of premature withdrawal, which got us ISIS, Keane said on Fox News America's Newsroom on Thursday. In my judgment, we need to stick to it and finish the job, Keane added, noting that the withdrawal of American troops will give a victory of strategic proportions to the Iranian regime.
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Can that dope even explain coherently what “finish the job” means?
Trump needs to listen to his Generals on many issues. Just because generals have a differing view on war matters (which Id trust to a general over any president and politician) doesnt make that general liberal. It make the general either right or wrong and the only way one finds that out is if the plan is stuck to. Not everyone that may disagree with the president on certain matters is an automatic liberal
Afghanistan. The way to deal with it is to just leave with a simple message. Mess with us and we nuke you. We will irradiate the country. And no, I don’t give a damn about surrounding countries; let them put the pressure on that shithole to settle down; or else.
Couldnt be better said. Coming from a veterans I couldnt agree more
Leave Tom Cotton where he ls.
Mattis waited too long, he wanted Trump to bend to his will not the other way around. Now he has finally and mercifully resigned I am happy. Mattis was a POS .
Can that dope even explain coherently what finish the job means?
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I think it means stay there forever, give them billions of dollars per year, let all their worst people relocate to the USA and then give it back to the enemy.
Your average general might be the worst person on the planet when it comes to determining whether or not that war is a good idea.
It is a great idea to get the hell out of the middle east and defend our own real estate.
How is it we agree about something?
Semper Fi Jarhead!!
LOL. Because the planets are aligned in a certain way for the first time in 500 years?
I would say Keane would be the front runner since he’s the Fox News analyst.
The excuse for going into Iraq and then spreading the war was that we wanted to take the war to them rather than have to fight it on our own soil. All the while, millions and millions of foreigners have been allowed to invade our country. The invasion needs to end.
He said yesterday on Martha McCallum’s show he wouldn’t take it.
We gain nothing militarily by being there. Just expensive bullshit. We are not going to win hearts and minds or any other such caca. We need to get the hell out. Yes, I was an Army officer.
West freaked out in Iraq and was relieved of his command.
Mattis is a distinguished fellow devil dog and an honorable man more so than ANY person in Washington. The line about Generals being political is tiring. Every single person on this earth is political in their careers in one way or another. Almost every single person is jockeying for a leg up in their careers. Generals and line soldiers arent just your runnif the mill dummies who should shut up and get in line. That may have been the case some decades ago that got thousands killed but today each offers some insight to any ensuing battle. Could be something large or something small but it is a thinking military across all ranks not mindless zombies.
Presidents and politicians are just that politicians and some are leaders. Good leaders listen to those they put in charge and those with FAR FAR more experience in global affairs and war. Your logic is akin to walking into a hospital and the surgeon tell you you need an immediate operation which you totally discredit and go with the nurses opinion of no operation well because the doctor is only in it for the money
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