Posted on 12/21/2018 11:24:28 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
President Donald Trump isolated himself from top allies and advisers with his unilateral decision to withdraw U.S. forces from Syria, triggering a backlash in Washington and around the globe unlike any he has seen during past go-it-alone moves on foreign policy.
At a White House meeting Thursday, Defense Secretary James Mattis handed Trump a blunt resignation letter that pointed to the president's failure to work with long-standing U.S. partners - and his empowerment of U.S. adversaries - as reasons for his departure.
A fulminating phalanx of Republican hawks, led by onetime rival and now usually loyal ally Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, said that Trump is empowering Moscow, Tehran, Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad and the remnants of the Islamic State while abandoning U.S. allies in the region and around the world.
Centrist Democrats are echoing their talking points, and even war-weary liberals say Trump has imperiled national interests by rushing into a policy without a serious plan for pulling troops out and addressing the humanitarian crisis in Syria.
They all point to the approval Trump is getting from Russian President Vladimir Putin.
For some presidents, the lonely path in Washington would be an uncomfortable one. But to Trump, it's a sign that he's on the right track.
"I think it’s a healthy backlash because politicians aren’t popular, and when politicians attack Trump it allows him to position himself as something other than a politician," said a former Trump White House official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak for the president.
When the Washington establishment is against Trump on an issue like Syria, this former White House official said, "it’s usually the opposite that’s happening around the rest of the country."
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President Trump is not alone on this one. I support ending Obama’s war, too.
Imagine today if we had no troops in Syria. Trump announces he is sending troops there. What would NBC and the rest be saying?
I didn’t even know we were in Syria.
GTFO and let em kill each other...
The Bush League Republicans like Graham and Rubio who want to “ fight them over there” also want to bring them here..........
Ask the guys in the Strykers if they are glad to be coming out if that rat hole
This is a daily reminder that this is the Tipping Point and the walls are closing in
https://youtu.be/MdHtAzFNwjE?t=136
Imagine today if we had no troops in Syria. Trump announces he is sending troops there. What would NBC and the rest be saying?
It’s all domestic politics. Notice the military is siding with the Democrats. I hope they are happy when their budgets are slashed next year.
As if NBC wanted troops there...
What a bunch of ass-hats.
The war machine mongers from the Press are churning out the digital ink in overtime mode I see.
That tiny number of troops were not the lynchpin of anything over there.
Only a damn fool is looking at this as the equivalent of leaving west Germany in 1946 or something.
“Imagine today if we had no troops in Syria. Trump announces he is sending troops there. What would NBC and the rest be saying?”
Excellent point. We all know NBC would be decrying President Trump sending troops into Syria.
That is VERY GOOD! SAVING
No mention of the fact that there was a popular backlash when Obama/Hillary started this war and wanted to send American troops.
The military LEADERSHIP is showing its true colors. I have no doubt they would give the orders to shoot every one of us and those orders would be carried out.
Nattering Nabobs...
No deal Flake
DACA for 100% of Wall not 20% of Wall
(That was Trump’s offer to the Dems last year)
Fool
This is how we ended up with bad deals over the years, idiots like Flake you make them
I agree . . . being “alone in Washington” sounds good to me!
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