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Trump faces growing GOP revolt on Syria
TheHill.com ^ | 10/09/19 06:00 AM EDT | ALEXANDER BOLTON

Posted on 10/09/2019 6:42:09 AM PDT by robowombat

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To: robowombat

President Trump understands the Rules of Engagement with Muslims.

1) If infidels are present, Sunni and Shiite Muslims will unite to convert, enslave, or annihilate the infidels
2) if no infidels present, then Sunni and Shiite will turn against each other until annihilation

Are you an infidel?


41 posted on 10/09/2019 7:18:18 AM PDT by RideForever
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To: TheThirdRuffian

Turkey can be dealt with using non-military means.

All Trump has to is exercise his Twitter finger.


42 posted on 10/09/2019 7:19:47 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: butlerweave

The few that President Trump is removing merely takes them out of harms way - resources are still available to be called in if/as needed.
Turkey is a NATO “ally” - the president is tired of trading our blood for causes we have decided aren’t worth all-out war.


43 posted on 10/09/2019 7:20:36 AM PDT by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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To: BobL

Frankly until Trump announced that he was pulling out the Troops in Syria, I didn’t know we had troops there.


44 posted on 10/09/2019 7:21:35 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping List)
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To: Madam Theophilus
The ISIS caliphate destroyed the WW1 state borders between Syria and Iraq (maybe Jordan)

Bush started the process of tearing Iraq apart and handing the South to Shia Iran. Obama/Clinton went whole hog and nearly finished the job with their "Arab Spring." But Putin stepped in b****-slapped the whole plan. The deep state, CIA wanted Trump to continue the stupidity, but he rightly is against it.

ISIS is a Saudis strategic tool. They don't have a proper Army that can go abroad and they only have oil as a modern strategic tool. So what else do they have? Their position as center of orthodox, Wahabbist Islam. They create Jihad groups to do their international dirty-work. They helped birth ISIS to take out Assad and check Iran and Hezbollah's power. Their opinion is - wants the job is done, they (and the their blue-eyed mercenaries in the USA) can clean up ISIS

45 posted on 10/09/2019 7:21:38 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: robowombat

These retards can hold a vote to order US troops there like they are supposed to.

Otherwise these d*ckless wonders are just expecting Trump to make the decision for them.


46 posted on 10/09/2019 7:22:03 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: G Larry

That link is way too long, try -
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/10/09/what-you-need-to-know-about-trumps-syria-move


47 posted on 10/09/2019 7:23:10 AM PDT by LouieFisk
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To: mewzilla

“Turkey can be dealt with using non-military means.”

Besides, we’re talkin’ a presence of 50 men that are removed, not battle-hardened battalions dug in for trench warfare. We got enuf problems without taking care of everyone else’s.


48 posted on 10/09/2019 7:26:13 AM PDT by LouieFisk
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To: Destroyer Sailor

Not really. The US is quite divided and there is no great pacifistic mood at all. And I imagine those who have been fighting there as advisors as well as their families will not be pleased if it turns out like Obama’s premature and idiotic withdrawal from Iraq. Having family who fought over there we felt betrayed by Obama and to this day despise the ‘antiwar’ crowd because it is actually a bunch of socialist ‘right’and socialist ‘left’ and far left communist factions in the US trying to support the Russian, Chinese, North Korean, Cuban, Venezuelan, Iranian and French objective of dethroning the US so one of them can fill the void...a squabble they’ll have later if they can rid themselves of the common threat to their ambitions.
I suspect though, that Trump’s move is not pacifistic but may have to do with increased instability in Iran [and its ally China] as well as a possible angle of making this temporary gesture to prevent US ‘pacifists-in-name-only’ from jumping enthusiastically back onto the Democrat bandwagon before the election. He has employed this sleight of hand before. It may be he is using the Turks to force the squabbling Kurds to unify...with ISIS weakened they will fracture, lacking a common enemy, unless they have a reason to overlook their differences and stick together. In a way it is having a similar effect on a squabbling US congress...all I know is Trump is not always doing what everyone thinks he is doing.


49 posted on 10/09/2019 7:26:34 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: robowombat

“Multiple committees are looking at possible legislative efforts to put the House on record against the president’s outrageous decision,...”

In other words they intend to pass a resolution saying “Orange man bad”....again.

Why doesn’t Congress simply revoke the War Powers Act which gives a president the full authority to do exactly what he is doing?

It’s a rhetorical question, we all know they’d rather whine then actually take action they would be countable for at some point down the road. They are a bunch of sanctimonious twats.


50 posted on 10/09/2019 7:32:49 AM PDT by billyboy15
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To: Pearls Before Swine
Well there was this report dated Aug 18, 2016

But I know nothing about that site.

51 posted on 10/09/2019 7:33:03 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: robowombat

For over a hundred years every major world power has made one f**ked up decision after another in that region of the globe! We’re cleaning up the mess Europe created and which we made worse with our “brilliant” international policy “experts”! It is a problem that policy wonks will be dealing with two to three hundred years from now, and far beyond that!


52 posted on 10/09/2019 7:33:45 AM PDT by dowcaet
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To: BobL

If you had done your research you’d know the PKK is a communist faction and is not representative of the Kurds in general... if anything they have been a Russian ally used against the Turks for generations. It’s the Russians not the US that have been arming the PKK.


53 posted on 10/09/2019 7:34:50 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: robowombat

“The President’s decision...”

VERSUS

“...The Congress shall have Power... To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;...” - United States Constitution.


54 posted on 10/09/2019 7:35:33 AM PDT by FreedomNotSafety
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To: robowombat

So 50 soldiers is supposed to be a major pullout ?

This to me is as much about supporting military suppliers who are in the pockets of congress critters as it is about protecting...


55 posted on 10/09/2019 7:35:57 AM PDT by patriotspride
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To: Madam Theophilus

Then there’s this:

https://mobile.twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1181936663318142978


56 posted on 10/09/2019 7:36:40 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (:¬| Beep beep)
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To: butlerweave
I do believe most Americans give a crap meter on the fate of everybody in that region is exhausted.

People are just outraged out when it comes to how crappy people in the middle-east treat one another.

Our involvement has largely be one of an exterminator doing pest control - now we just want them to bug off. Is it realistic - probably not. Do we feed the dragon by being there probably. Its a messed situation either way so how about less American's be involved and lets enjoy the fruits of energy independence while the natives sort out their own sandbox.

57 posted on 10/09/2019 7:36:45 AM PDT by datricker (Cut Taxes Repeal ACA Deport DACA - Americans First, Build the Wall, Lock her up MAGA!)
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To: mewzilla
Are you referring to this:

U.K. Settles $1.6 Billion Damages Claim Brought by Iranian Bank

58 posted on 10/09/2019 7:38:36 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: butlerweave

There are at least 6 local players in this region. Removing our policing military allows them to work out their own salvation. Turkey’s incursion guarantees Assad and Russia will not dominate. The Kurds have persisted for a thousand years. Trump has committed to economic sanctions if they are attacked beyond reasonable measures. THAT is a bigger stick than a few hundred policing forces. This will work out as it should. We are not the world’s police force.


59 posted on 10/09/2019 7:39:59 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (solutely guarantee that "wide spectrum" will total no more than a few hundred lost souls)
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To: robowombat

Trump faces growing GOP revolt on Syria


I no longer believe what is passed off as “news”. At best this is an opinion based on ... well who knows anymore.

However there are some that still believe especially if the press is reporting what they want to hear.

As a child I thought it was the cape that allowed superman to fly, and so one day I made a cape (well really an old towel) climbed up on the shed in our backyard and jumped.

A quick trip to the ER and a few stitches went a long way in teaching me the difference between reality and fantasy. Believing in a fantasy can hurt you.

Those that get their information from the media are living in a fantasy world. TDS is the direct result of some believing that Hillary could not lose the election and they have yet come to terms with that loss.

Believing that the GOP is in revolt over moving 50 troops out of Syria is a fantasy that will just cause more disappointment when the President is not removed from office until he loses the 2020 election or his term expires in 2025.


60 posted on 10/09/2019 7:40:06 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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