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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He certainly talks like he is.
Fruitcake anyone?
Don’t buy off on the Posse Comitatus lie. The military CAN LEGALLY AND SHOULD defend our border. They have in the past. The US BP was formed in 1924 so who was on the border before then? The US ARMY!
That's nothing. Here's what we had at just one battle in the Civil War:
...the First Battle of Bull Run (or Manassas), the engagement began when about 35,000 Union troops marched from the federal capital in Washington, D.C. to strike a Confederate force of 20,000 along a small river known as Bull Run.
WW2 D-Day invasion : 156,000 Brit, Canadian and US troops landed in one day.
Just for perspective. Not very many pencil pushers and JAGs in those days, either.
Everyone above O-6 usually has a lot of mental baggage.
You are no patriot
Today youcrossed the line
He shifted his eyes and said he had no plans for public service.
Keep in mind that I am wary of anyone who is an "expert" in these matters. In fact, I wouldn't trust anyone who has been working for a Beltway think tank for any length of time.
Everyone who is educated on the general situation already knows it. The leaders of the nations know it, so here it is. It’s about containing Iran: the real main source of terrorism all along.
And yes, some Shiite and Sunni leaders of nations get along with each other, when they’re working against us. Iran’s leaders have threatened to annihilate the USA many times while trying hard to build and mount nukes.
But some people refuse to consider consequences. And our ruined society consumes the stinking weed for commies and sings,
“One, two, three, four
Sha-la-la-la-la-la, live for today
(Hey, hey, hey)
Sha-la-la-la-la-la, live for today
And don’t worry ‘bout tomorrow, hey
Sha-la-la-la-la-la, live for today
Live for today”
The more we back down, the sooner the nukes will fly.
“Freaked out”? That’s not how his men would describe it.
Coming from you global boy that is a compliment.
It seems to me that the people who are up in arms about Trump’s withdrawal from Syria are basically angry at him for fulfilling a campaign promise. This isn’t a sudden, capricious move on Trump’s part, he’s just doing what he’s been saying he would do for the past couple of years.
WE are the invaders there. U.S. troops in Syria are the legal and moral equivalent of Chinese or Mexican troops in California.
Mattis suggested that Trump pick a secretary of defense whose views are better aligned with his. The President ought to take that advice to heart - not just on foreign policy, but on any and all cabinet appointments. His agenda and political instincts are anti-establishment and mostly sound, and yet he’s been surrounding himself with pro-establishment advisors and continues to do so.
Hahahha! Maybe Coast Guard too lol
I completely agree.
We need to build a permananent military base in Northern Iraq to protect the Kurds, Yazidhis and Christians, set up a new state and damn the Turks straight to hell.
Use the base to collect intel and fly armored ordinance in to set up a small Kurdish state. Make a runway long enough for B-52s.
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