I "saved" Belly Girl years ago. I bring her out of retirement when the occasion warrants.
Posted on 12/03/2019 8:29:10 AM PST by yesthatjallen
President Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron held a tense meeting Tuesday on the sidelines of a NATO summit, with Trump at one point telling the French leader he could send him some "ISIS fighters" if he wanted them.
“Would you like some nice ISIS fighters? I can give them to you,” Trump said with a slight smile at the meeting, which was carried live on cable news. “You can take every one you want.”
“Let’s be serious,” Macron replied sternly, reasoning that most ISIS fighters came from Syria, Iraq and Iran and disputing Trump’s common refrain that the terrorist group had been defeated.
Trump has complained that European countries have been unwilling to accept ISIS fighters the U.S. had captured.
The French president insisted that the number of European ISIS fighters was a “tiny” part of the overall problem of addressing destabilization in the region. He was also adamant that the terrorist group had not entirely been defeated, a break with a common declaration from Trump.
“I think [the] number one priority, because it’s not finished, is it to get rid of ISIS,” Macron said.
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i used to protest with that fine group- Protest Warrior...
Million’s for Defense, but not one cent for tribute!Millions. Are you posting from 1911?
Macron, the French, and most European leaders are in denial of home-grown, European Muslim supporters.
Muslim immigrants are refugees are having children who are sympathetic to Islam and not western civilization.
The threat will continue to grow until Muslims reach a threshold then the fighting will begin.
Who will French and European leaders side with? Their own people or Muslims who are 'victims of western culture'?
It was the sligan in the 1790’s when France tried to extort the US.
Nice to see Belly Girl again.
We’re getting close to 20 years since 9/11, it would be a good time to start.
Like all leftists, macron is so full of it. If the terrorists in captivity are such a small part of the problem then why doesn’t France take its share?
Nope. France was on our side then. It was Barbary Pirates, A.K.A. Moslems, A.K.A. the ISIS of their day.
Want to know how to handle them? Watch “The Wind and the Lion.”
“make it an individual spiritual quest”
We’ve already got that religion. It’s called Buddhism.
I kind of wish that Trump had threatened to parachute several hundred of the ISIS scumbags into random locations throughout France, just to see what the reaction was. That kind of shock seems to be necessary to get people to see that the current situation is unacceptable and must be adjusted in a serious way.
I "saved" Belly Girl years ago. I bring her out of retirement when the occasion warrants.
Some days you just can’t get rid of a terrorist.
The problem with that little frog is that he will walk off like the cat that got into trouble acting like it all never happened.
The Parisian French STINK, and in more ways than one.
Bwahhahahah!
One day Angela Merkel realizes “Europeans” can’t rely on the U.S. and the U,K. to defend them anymore, and now France is saying essentially the same thing.
Macron thinks the #1 priority is for the U.S. to continue to be at war in the Middle East. Sorry. Those days are over. We have a President whose #1 priority in the U.S., not the being the world’s policeman.
As it is, France hasn’t won a war in a long, long time that we didn’t win for them. At this time, France has an army of about 100,000. About a tenth of this number is foreign legion. This force is stretched thin by about a dozen foreign missions, mostly in Francophone countries. These missions range in size from small to medium-size.
The U.S., with a population four times as large, has ground forces six times as large; with air and naval forces, and intelligence even more disproportionate in size. The combination of our size and greater commitment in proportion to size make us the only real superpower in the world.
Yet France isn’t the problem. France meets its NATO obligation (it spends 2.3 percent of GDP on defense, compared to its obligation to spend 2 percent). The real problem is Germany (which spends only 1.3 percent). Other countries (Spain and Italy, which are in NATO; and Sweden and Finland, which are not) could be mentioned for falling short.
I’m going to turn the clock back now about 15 years. When we with just a few other dearest allies invaded Iraq, we scored a spectacular victory. Our plan was to then turn the country over to the Blue Helmets (meaning, U.N. peacekeepers). But, where were the Blue Helmets? They were scared off by the insurgency.
For lack of countries willing and capable to step into the gap, not only we were stretched to the max, the insurgency was able to gather strength, and the ensuing period of war within Iraq devastated that country. Consequently, we lost the peace having won the war.
Until the democracies of the world belly up to the bar, we, the U.S., have to be very careful about the commitments we make and back into.
Exactly true !
And that is why there will always be turmoil and terrorism.
Conquest requires an assault,.. and a victim !
I remember Belly Girl when I was getting deployed in 2003.
Lessee...that was sixteen years ago, she probably hasn’t hit forty yet & must still be a hottie.
That was the same year French Vanilla ice cream became Freedom Vanilla & I wish I’d saved the star spangled box to prove it.
They served Freedom Fries every day in the mess tent. France was not popular then & this was long before they let themselves get invaded by muzzies.
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