Posted on 08/22/2017 8:21:40 AM PDT by The Numbers
“And Bannon’s 24-7 drumbeat of criticism rolls on”
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Bannon is brilliant with great ideas, but his personality and people skills? Now I can see why he might have been a negative force in the WH.
He campaigned on this and said he’d continue the war in Afghanistan due to it’s geographical location to Pakistan.
I mean if you have to reach back five years for a tweet yet ignore what the man actually ran on last year as a candidate then you’re not really interested in POTUS succeeding.
It’s okay to be against this policy, but people need to stop saying it’s a flip flop and he lied and ran on ending the battle in Afghanistan. That’s just not true.
And to fight and stay means to do what is needed; adding more troops.
Again be against it all you want but it’s not a flip flop.
That is very insightful. When Bannon is on point he’s amazing—a force to be reckoned with. But as you said, he gets on point when he’s spearheading a big idea. When people skills are needed...there’s a fly in the ointment.
I don’t see it as a flip flop. Slightly disappointed because my knee jerk solution is to leave Afghanistan, but I understand that Trump is making an informed decision based on facts on the ground and by listening to the military, not the politicians.
I’m more angry and the RINOs who support this but won’t support repealing Obamacare and funding the wall, and border control is just as important as anything in the fight against terrorism. They are the real hypocrites.
I actually saw someone on one of the talk shows last night voice my thoughts. How are we gonna fight a different war there with the same people in charge (the generals) that have been fighting it for 16 years?
I say bomb them all to the Stone Age, wouldn’t take much, and move out with a warning that we’ll do it again. This on the ground bs needs to end. And we’ve seen such great results from training them to fight their own wars. Yeah, that was sarcasm.
I don’t care how he ‘wraps it up’ I don’t like it.
Thanks El Padre...
BINGO!
Just go read my post I have already been through this with another freeper.
ET TU TRUMP!?
You don't know me, so don't assume what I think or know. And you still can't provide me with an exact quote where Trump promised to bring the troops home from Afghanistan.
Lots of folks upset that reality bites. The clean break they want would turn Afghanistan over to Iran and Pakistan and install a whole new terrorist regime. Glad the President is listening to his National Security Advisers and the Generals.
Breitbart is making way too much of this speech. Trump did just fine. STFU.
At this point, what does victory look like, what national interest are we pursuing, and do we have a coherent, realistic plan to achieve it? If not, President Trump just made the wrong decision. What’s worse than war is a no-win war.
Afghanistan is “too big to fail”. Watch for this phrase. It means the DC oligarchs are out to steal from the US taxpayer.
They will go the way of Drudge if they overdose on their “nudging” platform. The Nudge can quickly become tyrannical.
Does Breitbart think their agenda stands any chance of a future without Trump? Pence? Ryan? McConnell? Romney?
#War
I actually agree with Bannon’s plan for Afghanistan. The modern U.S. army with 6 month deployments is not equip to be an effective police force, and that is what is required to control and hold territory in Afghanistan.
An army like we have now can win battles and take territory but unless they stick around full time they can’t defeat an insurgency which requires permanent on the ground presence with local knowledge acquired over time about the enemy.
For an insurgency is made of locals whom you come to know, and identify on the streets when they are not planting bombs. They need to be arrested and put in jail or killed one by one, a process that could take decades, and requires propaganda to humiliate and discourage their recruitment efforts. Things the U.S. army is functionally incapable of doing.
Trump killed General Obama’s disastorous ROE’s that gave an advantage to our Enemies and put our Soldiers in more danger.
I don’t know what President Trump will be able to get done while in Office, but the most important reason is him single handidly saving Generations of American Citizens from the ravages of a Liberal Supreme Court.
His being Elected may well have rescued the First and Second Amendments from being completely decimated.
His Election was too late to save States Rights once Obama and his Liberal SCOTUS buddies sanctified Gay Marriage as a Federal issue. It was clearly a State Issue, but that ship has sailed.
One other point, if any other Republican had been the Nominee, The Butcheress of Benghazi would be sitting in the Oval Office today and the Republic would have ceased to exist by the time her reign if terror ended in eight years.
I say this as a former Cruzer BTW. if Ted had made the cut in the Primary he would have been slaughtered in the General. Of this I have absolutely no doubt.
President Trump may well do things many of us do not like, but it certainly beats what his adversary who would have done while in Office. I count our blessings every day.
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