Posted on 01/17/2019 9:35:25 AM PST by ek_hornbeck
President Trump late Monday tweeted that the U.S. would stop getting tangled in "endless wars" and that the military's role in these conflicts will "eventually come to a glorious end."
Trump's tweet comes on the heels of recent news reports that indicate that the U.S. is not as close to withdrawing troops from Syria as the president indicated last month.
"Endless Wars, especially those which are fought out of judgement mistakes that were made many years ago, & those where we are getting little financial or military help from the rich countries that so greatly benefit from what we are doing, will eventually come to a glorious end!" he tweeted.
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Did someone tell ISIS that?
“The Atlantic” has a cover story calling for Trump’s impeachment written by Anne Applebaum. She is a notorious proponent of using American blood and treasure “to make the world safe for democracy”. Tweets like this form Trump is the main motivation Applebaum wants to eliminate Trump.
Well intentioned but wishful thinking on our President’s part.
Not our monkeys, not our circus, why do we care?
Amen. Too many America’s finest lives wasted trying to rebuild countries that hate us anyways.
After we get out of Syria, let’s get out of Afghanistan. We’ve been there for 18 years, long enough.
How many decades are American tax payers, who are paying many billions to protect other countries, expected to pay?
The US political establishment allows debate and disagreement on a whole range of social and economic issues. You can argue for high or low taxes, for or against some environmental regulation, for or against gun control or access to abortions, etc and still stay in relatively good graces in the eyes of the elite, or at least have the unqualified support of your own party. What you CANNOT do is challenge the elite's consensus on three issues:
1. Unlimited mass immigration from the Third World is a great thing socially and economically.
2. The purpose of the US military is to act as peacekeeper in ethnic/tribal/sectarian conflicts around the world and to nation-build afterwards.
3. Our trade policy should make it as easy as possible to offshore and outsource.
Trump's big "mistake" was disagreeing with the elite establishment on all three of these issues, which is why they're out for his blood in a way that they never were for any other President. It also explains why Trump's own party often doesn't have his back either.
Not wishful thinking at all, if he trusts his own instincts rather than those of John Bolton.
We've already been in it far too long at far too great a cost in money and lives. I have no problems leaving. Just don't pretend the war is over. It'll go on after we've left.
I’m sure you’re right. Thousands of years of human nature and the Biblical fact of the sin and evil men can do will doubtless be cast away in the next six years.
I like a lot of the things that Trump does. But worshiping him as a God is a little over the top ek_hornbeck.
We should act more like a fire department than a police department when dealing with ISIS and the like. Prevent their rise with strikes and raids if prudent and in the interest of the US. If they become establish, kill them and then come home.
This staying perpetually in the middle east is a failing proposition. We are not prepared to fight islam philosophically the way we did communism, only militarily at this point. We can’t win because you kill one generation and the next shows up spouting the same 7th century rhetoric.
Until we are prepared to push for a philosophical change in islam we should target and kill potential threats and leave them to themselves. We have been in Afghanistan for nearly 20 years nation building and it ain’t working, we have no strategy I can discern in that country other than pouring in more blood and treasure for status-quo existence, and it is not worth it.
“Glorious....”
God willing.
I don't "worship Trump as a God," if I did, I wouldn't have said that he surrounds himself with terrible advisors and cabinet members.
No doubt people will do evil to one another. However, when people start murdering each other over tribe or religion in some Third World country, it isn't our responsibility to keep the peace or rebuild their country for them. If you think otherwise, feel free to volunteer as a mercenary to fight in the tribal or sectarian war of your choice in Africa or the Middle East.
Napoleon gave good advice when he said, “If you’re going to take Vienna, take Vienna.”
In other words, if you’re going to war, do it with all your resources and get it done. Waging war half-heartedly with restrictive ‘rules of engagement’ is a recipe for failure.
The US hasn’t waged all out war since WWII, and we haven’t successfully concluded most of them.
The Marshall Plan was for AFTER the war, not during.
The hard part of ending a war is convincing the other guy to quit.
He won on building up the military, peace through strength and destroying ISIS. He did not win on an isolationist foreign policy.
I agree that ISIS should be destroyed because it wages attacks against the US and Western countries, just as Al Quaeda and its Taliban enablers needed to be destroyed after 9/11. What I don't agree with is using ISIS and 9/11 as an excuse to wage war and occupy nations that have nothing to do with either, or as an excuse for staying for decades after the military operations are complete to nation-build.
Then I guess it’s up to these countries to develop their own defenses...Just like we did. Of course since others like the U.S. tax payers have been footing the bill for many decades, these people don’t have a lot of incentive to get up off their asses and do something about it themselves.
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