Posted on 12/22/2018 8:59:09 AM PST by SleeperCatcher
Neocons, some defense officials, and even Democrats normally opposed to overseas military entanglements all heavily criticized POTUS Donald Trump’s decision to pull all American troops out of Syria, characterizing it alternately as rash, unhinged, or irresponsible.
But as is usually the case involving this president, the first impression we were given by the “mainstream” media regarding his decision was incomplete and not based on a complete understanding of the action.
As it turns out, one could even say that POTUS acted on the indirect advice of his national security adviser, John Bolton, simply because he was unable to answer one question regarding continued U.S. military presence in the war-torn shell of a country: ‘Why.’
(Excerpt) Read more at thenationalsentinel.com ...
>>We should put all our energies to defeating the enemies at our Southern border.<<
Yes, and also our enemies in the D.C. Swamp.
>> Someone on Twitter was mocking the psycho Front Hole Rachel MadCow over her complete backflips from her 2012 position:<<
The “front hole” and related lingo seems to have had a very short shelf life. Guess the Feminazis didn’t care for it.
Flowers... Pretty Flowers...
“We are spending $20 billion a year on Syria and Iraq and $50 billion in Afghanistan.
If we divert $10-20 billion of that for one year to build a wall, it will make more of a difference here than it would there.
I read last night at Conservative Treehouse that the Saudis are taking our place to side with the Kurds against Iran and Turkey. Now we don’t have to fight our supposed ally Turkey.
To be sure. We spend over $200 billion a year on the costs incurred by illegal aliens for education, welfare, medical and prison expenses.
Bright red ones?
That will work!
Thanks!
Apparently they come in several colors...
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Soldiers+in+opium+poppy+fields&t=lm&atb=v113-5_f&iax=images&ia=images
Strange factoid, the Taliban had once eradicated 99% of these flowers. Since we have been there it’s now back up to more than it ever was. Huge money, Always follow the money and you will find the why.
You are correct about JFK and Vietnam.
https://www.csmonitor.com/1991/1119/19182.html
Reston on Who’s to Blame for Vietnam
November 19, 1991
By Godfrey Sperling Jr.
No one has provided more persuasive evidence that it was President John F. Kennedy who got the United States into the Vietnam war than James Reston in his recently published memoir, “Deadline.”
Describing his interview with Mr. Kennedy following the young president’s summit with Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna, Mr. Reston has this to say: “I remember that Saturday morning very well. He (Kennedy) arrived at the US embassy (in Vienna) over an hour late, shaken and angry at having been delayed by an unexpected extra meeting with the Soviet leader.
He was wearing a hat - unusual for him - and he pushed it down over his forehead, sat down on a couch beside me, and sighed. I said it must have been a roug h session. Much rougher than he had expected, he said.” Kennedy then told Reston that Mr. Khrushchev had threatened him, warning that if the US did not agree to communist control over access to Berlin, the Soviet Union would proceed unilaterally to dominate the routes from Western Europe to Berlin. Kennedy said that he replied that the US would fight to maintain access to its garrison in Berlin if necessary.
Kennedy then went on to tell Reston that he felt sure that Khrushchev thought that anybody who had made such a mess of the Cuban invasion had no judgment. “Khrushchev,” writes Reston, “had treated Kennedy with contempt, even challenging his courage, and whatever else Kennedy may have lacked, he didn’t lack courage. He felt he had to act.” Soon thereafter Kennedy sent more advisers to the battlefront in Vietnam. “This, I thought,” Reston continues, “was a critical mistake.
Once Kennedy had over 15,000 ‘advisers’ engaged not only in giving advice but also in giving support on the battlefield. US power and prestige were thought by many officials in Washington and in Asian capitals to be committed.” And here is Reston’s assessment of the “who done it” argument that still is being waged - of who it was that got the US into what became a winless war that killed many Americans and finally sapped morale on the homefront: “No doubt, as President, Johnson was more responsible for commiting the US to that struggle (he eventually had 500,000 Americans in the war), but in my view Kennedy started the slide.”
Defenders of Kennedy on this issue usually point to Robert Kennedy’s denial that his brother had any intention of going to war in Vietnam. Reston writes: “Robert Kennedy, eager to protect his brother from blame, always denied that the President intended to increase the nation’s commitment to Vietnam, and also denied that the Kennedy-Khrushchev meeting in Vienna had anything to do with it. But he didn’t hear what his brother said to me in the Vienna embassy, and I did.” This is not just another reporter telling us of how something important happened. This is James Reston, one of the most respected men in American journalism.
So it is that when Reston tells us about his long and exciting life in the world of national and global affairs - about our wars, our presidents, and our leading politicians - we know we are hearing views of someone who has had insider knowledge of what he is writing about and who always is, indeed, seeking to stand square with the finish.
Agree.
He is the man.
Taliban—the word means “student”—filter south from Pakistan, where they are trained from childhood to memorize the Koran and to “master” Islam. We also have a large presence to modernize Afghanistan—if that’s possible. The US thinks it is possible, hence our presence.
When I was in the service, many of our military died on our Allies’ roadways drunk—sometimes killing innocents in the process. Others died on motorcycles.
Afghanistan is, at least, an honorable assignment—with risks our warriors soberly acknowledge.
“So what happened is ... Turkey asked a question (why are we still in Syria) Trump couldn’t answer. I like the outcome.”
Me too, and Trump shouldn’t have to answer. He had Bolton right there, and Bolton couldn’t answer, and should have been able to. That’s not a good thing - and Trump instantly knew it! And then dealt with it.
“What did Bashar Assad ever do to deserve THAT???”
Good point. Basher may be a genocidic madman who gasses his people for pleasure (at least according to the media), but he is still a human being and IN NO WAY deserves having millions of American Leftists to have to deal with.
That would be prosecutable WAR CRIME by our side.
A President should always know why he has troops deployed in a foreign country. He is the CiC and that involves high level strategy.
I don't believe the account. I think the author just wanted to make Trump look bad. Trump did not just scratch his head and say "why ARE we in Syria?" based on a question from Turkey that he couldn't answer and then suddenly pull troops out. He certainly had a plan.
MSM fake news.
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