Mattis seems happy. Looks like another conventional surge is in the cards, IMO.
1 posted on
08/20/2017 9:57:10 AM PDT by
lodi90
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To: lodi90
Oh, I thought John McCain was in charge of this now.
2 posted on
08/20/2017 10:00:43 AM PDT by
headstamp 2
(Ignorance is reparable, stupid is forever)
To: lodi90
“Everyone who had equity was heard,” he said, including budget officials responsible for funding the effort.
probably not a pull-out
3 posted on
08/20/2017 10:03:17 AM PDT by
stylin19a
(Lynch & Clinton - Snakes on a Plane)
To: lodi90
“after rigorous debate”
Sounds good to me. Sounds like they hashed it all out with the pros and cons.
To: lodi90
Everyone who had equity was heard, he said
How many seats at the table did the Taliban have?
6 posted on
08/20/2017 10:13:26 AM PDT by
Garth Tater
(What's mine is mine.)
To: lodi90
I suspect not.
I'm sure Donald Trump would go to great lengths to steer clear of any course of action that has already been taken and failed miserably under the two @ssholes who preceded him in the White House.
8 posted on
08/20/2017 10:19:53 AM PDT by
Alberta's Child
("I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris." -- President Trump, 6/1/2017)
To: lodi90
Needs time to decide how to explain it to the American people? Sounds like the entry of private contractors.
9 posted on
08/20/2017 10:24:38 AM PDT by
odawg
To: lodi90
Rockets! I wanna see more ROCKETS !!
10 posted on
08/20/2017 10:30:05 AM PDT by
Delta 21
(AntiFa and BLM should be on the United States list of Terrorist Organizations)
To: lodi90
#1:
"Mattis seems happy. Looks like another conventional surge is in the cards, IMO." That's what McMaster is pushing too. Bill Kristol is so excited he just made a mess in his bathrobe.
How dense can can they be? Sixteen years of failure and all of a sudden it's a new improved Afghan burger, now now with more Taste-Oh, the secret sauce.
To: lodi90
What! How dare Mattis not leak what Presidents new strategy will be! Looks like the media does not have dirt on Mattis. Good sign. No leaks yet.
13 posted on
08/20/2017 10:36:09 AM PDT by
Don_Ret_USAF
("No Government can survive Without The Trust Of The People.")
To: lodi90
Better yet, bring home every soldier we have there and have the last one out give a one fingered salute to that ungrateful hell hole.
15 posted on
08/20/2017 10:45:13 AM PDT by
bgill
(CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
To: lodi90
another lost war that the brass hats want to throw more victims at
16 posted on
08/20/2017 10:46:50 AM PDT by
vooch
(America First Drain the Swamp)
To: lodi90
Any strategy except GTFO will fail. Unless one realizes that the actual goal is eternal war and all that means for globalists, remfs and arms manufacturers one will never make sense of our policies.
18 posted on
08/20/2017 10:48:24 AM PDT by
Seruzawa
(FABOL - F*** A Bunch Of Liberals)
To: lodi90
Look how brave our leaders are! They are willing to fight to the last 19 year old.
19 posted on
08/20/2017 10:50:06 AM PDT by
Seruzawa
(FABOL - F*** A Bunch Of Liberals)
To: lodi90
22 posted on
08/20/2017 11:09:23 AM PDT by
elpadre
(AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
To: lodi90
I sure hope not. Afghanistan is a combination tar-baby and bottomless pit. We can’t leave altogether, but a “surge” will get us nothing but grief and wasted resources, unless we kill basically everyone there and in Pakistan.
I hope Trump announces a “small footprint” approach, using our resources to bribe regional warlords to deny space to the more radical jidahis. The larger the force we maintain in Afghanistan the more anti-foreigner opposition we attract, the more casualties and bitterness for all, the more wasted billions for nothing. This isn’t a situation where conventional “winning” is an option; we have to manage it long term to avoiding disaster without exhausting ourselves.
To: lodi90
Should not have put the first boot on the ground.
Afghanistan will never be tamed.
24 posted on
08/20/2017 11:15:30 AM PDT by
Lurkinanloomin
(Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
To: lodi90
Yeh the choices are go big or go home.
26 posted on
08/20/2017 11:32:38 AM PDT by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
To: lodi90
What’s the goal here. Complete nation building, or not letting terrorists have a state where they can freely without interdiction export terrorism to western nations?
The later should be the nation security objective.
To: lodi90
They decided we should lose more slowly? /half sarcasm
32 posted on
08/20/2017 1:24:49 PM PDT by
PghBaldy
(12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
To: lodi90
Nothing good has or will come from Afghanistan. Even it’s refugees do not want to go back there. It is a long fractured society that cannot, and will not be able to sustain a non-Taliban government, ever, without too much continued U.S. support.
35 posted on
08/20/2017 2:11:23 PM PDT by
Wuli
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