Posted on 04/09/2019 6:10:14 AM PDT by knighthawk
The recent defeat of the ISIS caliphate by U.S.-backed forces might not have merited the cheering crowds that clogged Times Square on V-J Day -- Aug. 14, 1945 -- when America toasted victory over Japan and won World War II. But the annihilation of the vicious, barbaric Islamic State -- once the size of two New Jerseys -- deserved far more than the relative shrug with which the media greeted it.
President Trump grasped this event’s significance and remarked accordingly.
“I am pleased to announce that, together with our partners in the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS, including the Iraqi Security Forces and the Syrian Democratic Forces, the United States has liberated all ISIS-controlled territory in Syria and Iraq — 100 percent of the caliphate,’” Trump stated March 23.
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The Mediots will NEVER, EVER GIVE PRESIDENT TRUMP CREDIT FOR ANYTHING! THEY KNOW ONLY “DESTROY TRUMP AT ALL COSTS!”................
My response:
"We'll keep that in mind as we set about "defeating" liberalism."
As pledged, Trump unleashed death from above. According to U.S. Air Forces Central Command, under Obama, Operation Inherent Resolve released 30,743 weapons in 2016. Under Trump, 39,577 in 2017 — a 29 percent increase.
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a things to factor in to trump’s victory over ISIS could be the fact that barack hussein bin soetoro, hildabeast, no name and brennan are no longer in a position to continue US funding of our ME enemy with cash & arms transfers.
McCain on the other hand was furnishing US weapons....which the “good guys” cough cough....took off with.
We came very close to ISIS actually becoming a country in Syria. We need to put McCain’s grave in a ISIS graveyard where it belongs.
Yes, U.S. air. logistic and intelligence support helped supply the victory over ISIS, which may not have come without it.
But we also have to admit the absolutely necessary contribution of the Kurds. They supplied the “boots on the ground” backbone for the effort and without them the U.S. support role would have needed many tens of thousands of U.S. combat troops, and they alone might not have had victory yet.
It was a joint effort. The local people of northern Syria are the beneficiaries and they were as much of the effort as the U.S.
We should not celebrate this as a singular effort of our own. It wasn’t and we can be glad it wasn’t for all the U.S. lives that the local Kurdish boots on the ground saved us from having to give.
There is no ‘defeat’ of ISIS. It is elemental in its intolerance, just as Christianity is elemental in its tolerance. One defines the other. Best you can do is keep them separated, and located in one place on the planet, e.g., Middle East. Just like a hornet’s nest.
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