Posted on 12/24/2018 5:48:48 PM PST by McGruff
A former commander of NATO said allies of the U.S. are asking whether President Trump was blackmailed by Turkey to pull U.S. military forces out of Syria.
In a CNN segment Monday, Wesley Clark, a retired Army general and former Democratic presidential candidate, said there was no apparent strategic logic for the move that critics view as an abdication to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
"You have to ask why was the decision made?" Clarke said on Christmas Eve. "People around the world are asking this and some of our friends and allies in the Middle East are asking, did Erdogan blackmail the president? Was there a payoff or something? Why would a guy make a decision like this? Because all the recommendations were against it. And it looked like all the facts were against it, too."
"We're not quite finished with we're not taking a lot of casualties over there," he added. "The Kurds have been reliable allies. Why do this right now?"
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The jackass
In defense of the toilet, how much can you expect a toilet to handle?
Got as far as Wesley Clark, and quit reading. Dad worked in Pentagon with him. Dad never really spoke bad about anyone...him yes.
Supply, logistics, communications, and transport contractors are pissed. That’s who ex generals serve. Follow the money.
Ohhhh my GAWD!
NOT WEASLY CLARK!
It was always a mystery that his troops didn’t frag him.
So many times I've clicked into a thread to find you've made my post for me.
Sheesh.
It was a campaign promise long before Trump began campaigning.
Afgahnistan is next.
5.56mm
They think someone was blackmailing him...to fulfill a campaign promise he has been working towards since he held his first campaign rally.
Brilliant.
Oh, I see it’s good ol’ Wesley Clark. If it weren’t for British general Mike Jackson (G_d bless him), Clark would have gotten us into WW III. We’d still be cleaning up after that.
Jackson to Clark: “I’m not going to start the Third World War for you.”
Details here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incident_at_Pristina_airport
Wesley Clinton Clark.
Imagine being this upset about ending a war. Can’t wait to see liberals run on a pro-war platform and have their goons in the media back them up.
All I needed to read was “Wesley Clark”.
Garbage to follow from that point on.
If Trump was blackmailable, he’d be doing what the Deep State and John Brennan want, he’d be staying in Syria.
> Was he the one who almost got a war started with Russia? <
Yes. See my post #29. But since Clark is now a darling of the Left, nobody cares about that.
Name these allies and how many troops they’re willing to send to Syria
All of this stuff is BS trying to make Trump look bad. Trump made his position clear on foreign wars during the campaign. It was only a matter of time before he was going to bail on Syria and perhaps other countries. I don’t think Trump suddenly decided to bail out of Syria based on a conversation with Turkey. Makes no sense.
Wesley Clark is a whack job who was undoubtedly the most incompetent SACEUR in history.
Generally Weasley Snark said, while obsessing over partisan politics on Christmas Eve, “there was no apparent strategic logic for the move... Why do this right now?”
Perhaps someone should tap the old man on the shoulder, and point out to him that ISIS was just cleared from its last stronghold in Syria a week ago - mission accomplished.
Win - Come home. Is that simple enough, even for Weasley?
But I guess they have to give it the old college try, to wormtounge the collapse of ISIS into something bad about Trump. Just wasn’t done well enough - they would have done it so much better. Yada, yada.
So Weasely Clark, the Globalist coward that slaughtered Serbian women, children and civilians with "NATO" stickered air power to support the KLA Muslim Terrorist invasion and ethnic cleansing of Christian Kosovo, admits that the Globalist Deep State blackmails American Republicans.
Thanks for fessing up, Weasel.
My bet is Trump knows some things that Clark does not know.
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