Posted on 12/22/2018 3:53:47 PM PST by SMGFan
Incoming Texas Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R) criticized President Trump's plan to remove troops from Syria in an op-ed detailing his own military service.
Crenshaw, a U.S. Navy SEAL veteran wounded during his service in Afghanistan who was elected to Congress for his first term last month, penned an op-ed for The Washington Post on Saturday explaining his opposition to Trump's plan.
The president announced this week that the U.S. would remove troops from Syria and news reports indicated that Trump was considering reductions in force levels in Afghanistan as well.
"In the end, I settle on one very simple reason: We go there so that they don’t come here," Crenshaw wrote. "It really is that simple. We bring the fight to the enemy so that they don’t bring it to us."
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
I would disagree, if only because there's a whole army of "authors" so thoroughly discredited in their arguments and reasoning that it isn't worth our time to read it if it comes from them, except for the purposes of humor/mockery. It's good that we know this comes from Rep-elect Crenshaw, because we can see that he's not on the same page that we are.
Rush Limbaugh
Address to Incoming House GOP Freshmen
delivered 10 December 1994, Baltimore, MD
https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/rushlimbaughhousegop.htm
The first thing I would like to tell you, you’re coming into the beltway — inside the beltway — and as we’re all human beings, and we all are susceptible to human nature, and we all want to be liked; we all want to be loved; and you all want to live in surroundings which are not hostile. But inside the beltway for people like us this is not possible. And so sometimes to avoid the hostility, we say things and then begin do things designed to gain the approval of those who are hostile toward us. I want to warn you against it. I want to warn you: You will never ever be their friends. They don’t want to be your friends.
Some female reporter will come up to one of you and start batting her eyes and ask you to go to lunch. And you’ll think, “Wow, I’m only a freshman. Cokie Roberts wants to take me to lunch. I’ve really made it.” Don’t — seriously — don’t fall for this. This is not the time to get moderate. This is not the time to start trying to be liked. This is not the time to start gaining the approval of the people you’ve just defeated. (No offense, Cokie.) I use “Cokie” generically. It could be anybody. I don’t mean to single her out — I really don’t.
Dude is very popular on twitter cause that SNL loser made fun of him.
I supported him in the primary runoff but my inkling from what Bunzburger has retweeted of him is that he’s establishment through and through and a neocon’s neocon.
And yes his little quote there is like so 2004.
The American troops will be replaced by troops from Saudi Arabia will take over the training that the 2000 American troops have been doing in Syria! Another words people from the region are taking care of their own defense instead of us being the world’s police force! Donald Trump should be applied instead of held up like a piece of crap!
Well put.
[wants to rise in leadership should GOP regain house?]
Back in the era of warriors, when men fought to take, by force, women, slaves, loot and land, and killed anyone of any age or gender who got in their way, people who fought wars were unsentimental about having their sacrifices mean something, as long as they got their material rewards. But the American soldier, who is above average in every way, yet gets paid less than his civilian counterpart, fights mainly for honor and sentiment, given the piddling material rewards on offer. Like a lot of his comrades, he is a Crusader, stripped of the religious aspect - he wants to bring the light of freedom to the benighted heathens.
I’d pull out of Syria completely. Syria isn’t our problem. It’s Russias problem. And Iran’s.
He hasn’t even been sworn in yet and he has succumbed to the wiles of getting a good press at the Washington Post.
Don’t expect much from this guy in his hopefully brief career.
Tactical thinking about a strategic problem.
My concern about pulling our troops out of Syria is in regard to the Kurds in the north and what might happen to them when we leave. Part of the strength of ISIS in Syria was from somewhat of a proxy status for Turkey who traded with them, armed them, and simply watched as the carnage in Kobane unfolded. Now that ISIS has been marginalized, Erdogan is openly threatening them militarily, and it feels wrong for us to leave knowing what the Turks are likely to do to them.
Navy SEAL or not, odds are very high Crenshaw does not have a handle on the big picture in general, nor does is he privy to the daily briefings given to President Trump on security and the going on in the world.
In other words, he doesn’t have enough information to know what he’s talking about.
Just because someone has been a ticket agent for a couple of years (for example) doesn’t mean they know how to run an airline.
Crenshaw needs to keep his trap shut and focus on doing his own job in his own little corner of the country.
Yep. Proof positive. We are the stupid party.
yes, no doubt they contacted him after SNL story.
It seems to be the neocon position wherever we have fought, stay there forever. Trump needs to hurry and finish getting us out of the Afghan quagmire too. We’ve bled blood and treasure there for far too long. Will the pearl clutching media and old pubbies wet themselves when Trump ends the Korean situation and brings those troops home. I don’t know why we’re still wasting hundreds of billions defending the Eurosocialists from the Soviet Union.
I have never found military service itself to automatically give anyone a more important, more believable, more “correct” view
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Well, Bradley Manning served also, right?
Note the /s, below.
He should stop to think why the Washington Post wanted his op ed......an anti Trump military guy in congress is just what they ordered. My message to my fellow veteran: shut the hell up.
Isn’t a Crenshaw some kind of melon?
Very disappointing to read...he sounds brainwashed.
Nice teamwork, dipstick. I don’t care what credentials he may possess; we are at war tooth-and-nail, to the finish, with marxism. Without Trump, we have hillary; ryan and flake would still be on RINO patrol, perpetually nosing around K Street, peddling influence.
Dance with the one who brung ya. He could use everyone’s help; Lord knows he’s already got plenty of hindrances.
Would you be saying that if he agreed with you?
That line is old and defunct.
Old, yes. Most politicians aren't very original. But that works out alright because sooner or later old lines become relevant again.
They are here as we speak.
Not in great numbers, though.
This is a recurring problem. Men who fought in the First World War wanted to get home. Then years later, maybe some of them thought if we'd stayed in France or Germany their sons might not have had to fight another war. Same thing with soldiers who fought against Saddam having to go back to fight ISIS. I can't fault or condemn or feel superior to this Congressman for wondering about whether we'll have to send troops back to Syria some day. Hardly anybody wants American troops to stay in the Middle East forever, but if we are forced to go back soon, how is this latest withdrawal going to look?
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