Posted on 09/15/2020 8:59:50 AM PDT by White Lives Matter
Assad has been ISIS’s friend, see if he has bought their oil. Assad is no friend of the US, helped kill American soldiers during the liberation of Iraq.
With Trump you never know who is going to get a wedgee.
The crack below my back sort of twitches when i hear about the way PDJT has given a really stout yank to another recipient of his special attention.
There should be a “Yank of the Day” thread to track these.
“The expression “all hat and no cattle” fits Mattis. Actually if Trump really wanted to do the world a favor he would do better by taking out that evil prick Soros.”
$UPEREVIL $ORO$ & $UPEREVIL GATE$. Maybe we can call the Deptment of SELECTIVE Justice / Injustice. Paging Billy FUBarr & Hairface Durham.
Q? Where’s Lon Horiuchi when you need him?
You say you want a revolution?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGLGzRXY5Bw
*** We are still trying to get Austin Tice out from Syria, ***
I would be surprised if Austin is alive. Our FSA buddies offered him up after his birthday party complete with whiskey, and Taylor Swift music.
Who would direct them to do that?
I think President Trump likes to say controversial things, and then let people try to figure out why he said them.
Was he joking, or serious? Was it reckless, or clever? Was it smart or stupid? Will it hurt him politically, or help him?
I don’t think it’s 3D chess or anything like that - I think it is common sense approach to battling the problem of “political correctness”. If you don’t want your speech to be constrained to that which is politically correct, then you must be politically incorrect as much as possible. - that’s all he’s doing.
For example, if there was a strict dress code at the White House and the President wanted to end it, he might wear wild clothes every day - it wouldn’t matter what weird style or color he chose - if he wore mint green, people might assume it meant something or was his favorite color - but they would be wrong - he would just be breaking down boundaries of what colors a President could get away with wearing - it wouldn’t matter what color he wore - just that it was different than the color President is “supposed to wear”.
Well, President Trump doesn’t care about changing the traditional White House dress codes - he’s happy to wear a black or navy blue suit.
But he does care about “political correctness“. He is NOT happy to just speak in a “politically correct“ manner. He thinks that limits him. So what does he do? He said wild things on purpose and let’s people’s heads explode.
After a while, the definition of politically correct speech will be forgotten, and the definition of “acting presidential“ will be forgotten. And that will be a good thing.
I think that’s all he’s doing most of the time - he’s not playing 3D - just saying whatever he wants - and forcing people to get used to a President who says who speaks his mind.
Trump is an idiot on the topic of Syria.
Quite a few Generals were and are over-rated.
Wars will be fought in people’s heads and not on battlefields in the future except to show off weapons that dazzle as they slice&dice&sear flesh.
Who leads in Syria today and has for years? I use the term ‘leads’ loosely.
Russia knows how deeply they are involved and what lies ahead.
I am sorry, but Mattis was right and Trump was wrong.
ISIS, the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood, and the rest of the radical fundamentalist violent groups in Syria would have become the dominant and most popular forces in Syria with Assad taken out. THE ONLY alternative to that would have been a full U.S. occupation-to-pacify Syria, which would have made mirrored the experience in Iraq after Saddam was taken out.
I am no Mattis fan, but on that call Mattis was right. In as much as Syria had already become totally destabilized and a dysfunctional state in much if it’s territory by that time , so beyond continuing to help the Kurds against ISIS, it was preferable, by 2017, to leave the rest of the mess in Syria to Russia.
Where do folks think these peace agreements came from? He wanted to take out a bad guy. They suddenly want agreements.
I completely agree, stay the hell out of Syria. No more useless unwinable wars.
As the death toll continues to climb in Syria’s bloody civil war, a lesser-known casualty recently came to light in a new report by the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) – churches and Christian places of worship.
You do realize that the SNHR is an opposition front group, operating as an NGO, and it is funded by Salafist Supporters, and States to the tune of billions?
Mattis turned out to be a globalist goon that considered what until now no other US general, admiral or sec. of DOD considered, a military coup against a duly elected president. For that I cannot forgive Mattis. He forgot his place, his duty and his oath to protect the USA, not the rest of the world and the deep state and globalist. If he is part and parcel of the current US generals and admirals then there needs to be a purge because they are not looking out for us but their owners and themselves. I never thought I would type such words about the leadership of the US military. God how we have fallen...
IF this is true, Mattis was correct.
Why would the US want to take out Assad? He would just be replaced by a radical Muslim. Assad may be the most sane leader in the Middle East. This is none of our business. If we start taking out every dictator that people think is a tyrant, that’s all we will be doing with our military. Enough already.
Wrong, it was Turkey that was buying ISIS oil. Until the Russians made it known. And only then did Obama stop it.
Wow, bit disappointed in Trump on this one. How naive could he be. He would have played right into Clinton and McCain’s hands by doing so.
Sorry princess, its been well documented that Turkey was funding ISIS through bootleg oil purchases not Assad...all while Operation Inherent Resolve just sat on their collective butts and looked on.
It wasn't until the Russians arrived in country and started attacking the truck convoys running to the Syria/Turkey border that anything got done.
Russian behavior modification technique
Our error in Syria coutesy of Hillary and Obama was the fact Assad was a brutal Son of a Bi--h but we did not make him OUR son of a bi--h. It would have been easy.
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