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'It's time to come home' — acting Pentagon chief wants to end America's wars in the Middle East
CNBC via MSN ^ | 14 Nov 2020 | Amanda Macias

Posted on 11/14/2020 5:07:44 PM PST by blueplum

In his first message to U.S. military forces, acting Pentagon chief Chris Miller said it's time to end America's wars in the Middle East...

"Indeed, this fight has been long, our sacrifices have been enormous, and many are weary of war — I'm one of them — but this is the critical phase in which we transition our efforts from a leadership to supporting role," Miller wrote in an early Saturday morning message to Department of Defense employees.

"We are not a people of perpetual war — it is the antithesis of everything for which we stand for which our ancestors fought. All wars must end," he added, writing that the U.S. was "on the verge of defeating Al Qaida and its associates."

"We met the challenge; we gave it our all. Now, it's time to come home," Miller wrote.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: foreignaffairs; pentagon; promiseskept; usmilitary
Bring them home, Trump. It's time. Promises made, promises kept.
1 posted on 11/14/2020 5:07:44 PM PST by blueplum
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To: blueplum

I am a Cold War era Army vet. 11C1P, bring every last US service person home by the end of the year and leave them to those countries to their own devices. Let the Dems start the next war.


2 posted on 11/14/2020 5:10:40 PM PST by Finatic (Sometimes I think it would be nice to just get it on and get it over with. Once and for all.)
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To: Finatic

***leave them to those countries to their own devices.***

I remember hearing a speech in which those same thoughts were said.

“I will not send American boys to fight a war that Asian boys should be fighting!”—Lying Lyndon Johnson (1964)
Once reelected, he sent troops to Vietnam.

Then another even older...the reelection of Woodrow Wilson using the motto “HE KEPT US OUT OF WAR!” Not long after our boys were “Over There!”

Then there was George W. Bush, who invaded Iraq using info supplied by the Clinton Admin about “Weapons of Mass Destruction”.

NEVER trust a Democrat!


3 posted on 11/14/2020 5:25:16 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: blueplum

Time is running out. Do it.


4 posted on 11/14/2020 5:34:23 PM PST by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: Finatic
Bring our troops home from Europe and the UK as well. End our involvement with NATO. 75 years after the end of WW2 there is no reason for us to be there. It's time America resigned from being the worlds policeman.
5 posted on 11/14/2020 6:40:52 PM PST by jmacusa (Mirgration? Where ya going?)
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To: blueplum

Amen.


6 posted on 11/15/2020 10:44:57 PM PST by Thunder 6
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