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."
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Biggest bunch of bullshit ever sold to millions.
9/11 had NO chance of happening had common-sense, ALREADY-PASSED IMMIGRATION and VISA LAWS been enforced. Atta and his boys repeatedly lit up red alert lights across the board and violated immigration laws and deadlines...and got away with it. Add to that the Jamie Gorelick "Firewall" and Clinton's REFUSAL to kill Bin Laden, and viola...9/11.
17 years in Afghanistan did not stop Ft. Hood, Boston, Orlando or San Bernardino, and will not prevent a single future terror attack.
In the Season 4 prequel teaser for Fox's iconic "24", the villain's team is shown entering the country doing nothing fancier than...crossing the Mexican border, killing their coyotes to keep them quiet thereafter. they could do the same damn thing TOMORROW -- and with nuclear materials too -- and 2,372 U.S. deaths in Afghanistan haven't done ONE thing to stop that.
Thanks for your opinion and you can be sure we will give it all the respect it deserves. Now please go and do something useful.
The Crusader thing must be for modern military people, when I was in, I just wanted to kill the enemy and then go home!
I couldn’t disagree more about anonymous od-eds. You believe in it then put your name to it, we should know where you stand.
I would have to say that your statement put it in the the V ring.
Accurate and truthful.
Sorry about that. Too many people equate webbed feet with functioning brain cells. This poor moron just walked into an ambush and I’ll bet he’s still hasn’t figured it out.
Never forget all the current and former military undermining POTUS for sport had no issue with the community organizer from Chicago sabotaging the status of forces negotiations with Iraq or his ROE that got their comrades killed.
Seriously, Dan, time to shut up and get with the program.
Syria was doing okay before the West started funding Jihadis, and running a 24/7 propaganda war against Assad.
How many Presidents drive a Honda, and go out w/o security?
Remember the lie, “Assad has fled the country?” when he clearly had not. So many lies.
I am so tired of the “fight them there, so we don’t have to fight them here”
Yeah, cuz Syria, Iraq, Libya,Iran, Yemen were/are just running amok here in the US.
Did you read Will Hurd’s latest? Another former CIA RINO Never Trumper crapweasel from TX-23.
Bring back Quico Canseco. Aggies got Hurd elected.
And now all the incompetent Obama warmonger generals and diplomats are retiring or resigning .... can you stand the winning?
If he agreed with me he would not be simple minded. He would be thinking instead of spouting a defunct meme from 14 years ago.
We have wide open borders and neither one of us knows how many of those jihadis are in this country.
I appreciate this man’s service, but that does not make what he says a must to believe or necessarily right at this time.
Agreed.
But you know the answer: the ONLY way you get headlines, the only way you get the fake news to even notice you is to criticize Trump.
I have always thought that one has to have an over-inflated ego to run for office and I have yet to be proven wrong.
BINGO!
And the sad thing is the neocons would have no problem with that.
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