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Trump Steadily Ramps Up Military Action Against ISIS and Al-Qaeda
Newsweek ^ | 23 Mar 17 | Ed Krayewski

Posted on 3/23/2017, 8:34:51 AM by elhombrelibre

Despite candidate Donald Trump's welcome, sometimes critical look at long-standing entangling U.S. alliances and arrangements, there was little doubt, given his rhetoric on the war on terror, that he would ramp up military involvement. He redeclared that war in his inaugural, putting a new face and new rhetoric to a decades-long fight.

Sixty days into the Trump administration, the new contours of the war on terror are starting to take shape. Foreign Policy reports there is a renewed bombing campaign against Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) in Yemen following a late-January raid the Trump administration insisted was a holdover from the Obama administration. According to Foreign Policy, the Obama administration "handed over plans for a stepped-up campaign to the incoming Trump team in January," and there'd been "an immediate change in the tempo of operations."

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1 posted on 3/23/2017, 8:34:51 AM by elhombrelibre
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To: elhombrelibre

Why would Trump’s people give any credit to the failed efforts of odumbo when he (odumbo) only moved his “red line” every so often instead of actually going on offense?
I anticipate Trump will continue to build our military but use them sparingly until the time is right and then will go “all in” and eliminate ISIS as promised.


2 posted on 3/23/2017, 10:06:18 AM by DaveA37
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To: DaveA37

Dave, the time is ripe, and they’re lining up a kill shot.


3 posted on 3/23/2017, 10:09:41 AM by elhombrelibre (Cogito ergo sum a conservative pro-American.)
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To: elhombrelibre

A proactive U.S. military is a successful U.S. military.


4 posted on 3/23/2017, 10:18:28 AM by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: equaviator

“L’audace, l’audace, toujours l’audace.”


5 posted on 3/23/2017, 10:20:08 AM by elhombrelibre (Cogito ergo sum a conservative pro-American.)
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To: elhombrelibre

“L’audace, l’audace, toujours l’audace.”

Mors Hostibus!


6 posted on 3/23/2017, 10:38:38 AM by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: elhombrelibre

Silence from the msm on Trump winning the war on isis. They all said Trump couldn’t do it, bluster, inexperienced, etc. It Was Just Too Hard.

Ha!


7 posted on 3/23/2017, 10:39:19 AM by Basket_of_Deplorables (Drone Soros and sons!!!)
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To: elhombrelibre

One of the illuminating changes with the Trump administration was how quickly ISIS started collapsing once Trump was in charge. Either Obama, McCain and the rest where propping up ISIS or Obama was mulzing the US military.


8 posted on 3/23/2017, 10:58:02 AM by RedWulf (#purge the nevertrumpers)
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To: equaviator

It’s being brought to them.


9 posted on 3/23/2017, 11:18:52 AM by elhombrelibre (Cogito ergo sum a conservative pro-American.)
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To: Basket_of_Deplorables

Newsweek is an MSM pub, though. So the evidence is there for even those who might like to ignore it.


10 posted on 3/23/2017, 11:20:16 AM by elhombrelibre (Cogito ergo sum a conservative pro-American.)
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To: elhombrelibre

All he has to do is tell the military to kill the terrorists and they will do the rest whereas obama said to drop the bombs in the desert.


11 posted on 3/23/2017, 5:18:11 PM by minnesota_bound
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To: Basket_of_Deplorables

Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach. The ones left over write biased, inaccurate articles for the lame stream media.


12 posted on 3/23/2017, 5:24:16 PM by MCRD
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