They should all move to Syria, since that's where their interest apparently lies.
HOWARD KURTZ: Mollie, as you know, there is a whole slew of conservative journalists and commentators, and you have Lindsey Graham, Nikki Haley and other Republicans sharply criticizing the president on Syria, given the tremendous amount of suport they normally give Donald Trump, what do you make of this?
MOLLIE HEMINGWAY: I'm not sure I would agree that this caucus normally gives a tremendous amount of support to President Trump. I would say there's a grotesque over-representation of a certain foreign policy approach in our pundit class and in our newspapers. Donald Trump did run on campaign to get out of Syria, he was elected to do that, there's a rejection of this will from the people to not have such entanglements and you see that so much in the newspapers and in our TV coverage.
President Obama, 16 times said we would never have boots on the ground in Syria, and yet Donald Trump gets elected saying he will get us out of the situation. We're 3 years into the presidency and it is finally happening, and you don't hear the voices articulating why that's important, why the American people want this.
MOLLIE HEMINGWAY: We are seeing a lot of commentary from a lot of people instead of doing straight news. There's an avenue here, we don't have good reporting on the ground and that can make it hard and we are getting input and this is something we have seen across many media outlets, we don't have good on-the-ground reporting on this. But it is also true that we need to have a much better discussion of what our aims are when we get involved in conflicts. We did not have the aim of defending this, you know, this particular group of YPG fighters in their battles with Erdogan.
GILLIAN TURNER: We did. We had a long-standing agreement with them for close to a decade and they were helping us wipe out ISIS.
MOLLIE HEMINGWAY: No, absolutely not. We had shared interest to take down the ISIS caliphate's military abilities and we accomplished that.
GILLIAN TURNER: We had a military alliance.
MOLLIE HEMINGWAY: And the American people -- yes, based on shared interest in defeating ISIS and that's what the American people understood, and they weren't even particularly supportive of that. The idea that we would then change, move the goal posts, and have all sorts of different agenda items there is not something that American people signed onto, and if people want that they should say that is what they want and get the American people to sign off on it.
It's just too delicious. President Trump ordered U.S. special forces out of Syria to a chorus of howling Democrats and all the old, experienced hands at State and, supposedly, the military. (I had doubts as well.) Democrats yelled that all hell was about to break loose. The Pentagon pulled its hair. Europe trembled and blanched. The Mideast girded for something awful....Excerpted from an American Thinker article, "Trump's Syria plan reveals a master strategist in the White House," by Richard Jack Rail.
Negotiations would ever happen only if our troops stayed.
Trump saw the situation differently. As beautifully laid out by Sundance at Conservative Treehouse, removing our guys would leave the intransigent Turks vulnerable to an alliance against them of their many enemies in the region. This thought didn't occur to Turkish president Recep Erdoğan, who at first seemed delighted that we were leaving and promptly dispatched his troops into Syria, as everybody had predicted he would.
AT's Thomas Lifson reports that ABC News was so appalled that it ran footage from a Kentucky gun range video, called it the Turkish invasion, and heaped abuse on Trump for atrocities committed against Kurds.
Not so fast, fellas. The actual result hasn't been quite what everyone expected. Erdoğan suddenly understood the box he was in when Trump authorized Treasury secretary Mnuchin to prepare sanctions against Turkey. By themselves, sanctions haven't succeeded much in that part of the world. But in concert with the departure of the U.S., they became a scary signal that Turkey was all by her lonesome. Having steadfastly refused to negotiate, Erdoğan now nervously rang up Trump and asked for an emergency conference. Trump sent Vice President Pence and national security adviser O'Brien to mediate negotiations with the Kurds.
These are the long sought negotiations, brought about by U.S. troops leaving.
Every one of the traitors works for others, not for us.
REMOVE them all.
At least most of the “deep state” House members have identified themselves... They all go on the list...
Largely?