Whatever side one comes down on the merits, no one can seriously dispute that the process was appallingly mishandled by this administration. The president should have sold his decision to congressional leaders, even Democrats, instead of leaving himself vulnerable on the eve of impeachment so unnecessarily.
Was war declared?
While I normally agree with you on military matters, all of the only appropriate responses to the intellectual diarrhea you just tried to submit are both scatological and profane.
Go find a declared and funded war to talk about, and only then can you rationally make that assertion.
I agree. I’d like to know who advised the administration to do this.
No offense, but that’s idiotic. Selling a decision to withdraw troops from a place where they were never supposed to be in the first place is preposterous. That’s like saying the President should have sold his decision to Congress on ending Obama’s totally illegal DACA executive order before canceling it.
“Whatever side one comes down on the merits, no one can seriously dispute that the process was appallingly mishandled by this administration. The president should have sold his decision to congressional leaders, even Democrats, instead of leaving himself vulnerable on the eve of impeachment so unnecessarily.”
Nonsense! The president ran on getting the US the hell out of asinine foreign wars. His decision to withdraw our forces would have been bitched about by the Deep State and its Marxocrat and neo-con RINO cronies in CONgress in any case. The impeachment farce will move forward regardless of what Trump does, but he has now shored up his voter base by fulfilling another election promise. This neutralizes the ability of the CONgress to proceed with their impeachment farce without considering its electoral consequences for Marxocrats in Trump-friendly districts.
“Whatever side one comes down on the merits, no one can seriously dispute that the process was appallingly mishandled by this administration. The president should have sold his decision to congressional leaders, even Democrats, instead of leaving himself vulnerable on the eve of impeachment so unnecessarily.”
That would have been a complete waste of time. The globalists, which are still the majority, would disagree and disapprove any argument Trump would or will make going forward anyway. Trump just ripped the band-aid off.
You’re right.
Trump is both unpredictable AND a strong leader willing to stick to his guns on federal government policy decisions in the face of near-unanimous disagreement among Washington D.C. policy wonks and political figures who are not and probably never will be POTUS. This decision burnishes those credentials. If utter disaster quickly befalls the Kurds in northern Syria, and if the currently-confined ISIS fighters and their “friends and family” numbering in their tens of thousands are freed from custody and melt back into society as a result of the Trump-ordered pullout, current naysayers will feel justified and probably not hesitate to condemn Trump. Time will tell how things play out, but in the meantime Trump benefits by appearing decisive and pointing with pride at his relatively rapid and, from all accounts, total battlefield victory over ISIS while avoiding undue conflit with Putin’s Russia (no mean feats).
They way he did does seem a little reckless. It amazes me he would risk antagonizing the GOP whose support is tepid at best at a time when he needs their support the most
Begging your pardon, he has been on the eve of impeachment since he took office.
1,000 troops are a speed bump to Turkey unless you support them massively with all manner of air power. Unless our aim is to decisively defeat and occupy Turkey it is best left alone. We don’t need another occupation and sacrifice of our sons. If you had one in the fight you might see things differently. If you had lost one in a useless fight you certainly would.
The ME needs to be allowed to fight their own fights and destroy themselves as they have been bent on doing for more than a thousand years. As far as I am concerned the Jews picked a bad neighborhood.
Whatever side one comes down on the merits, no one can seriously dispute that the process was appallingly mishandled by this administration. The president should have sold his decision to congressional leaders, even Democrats...
... who would leak details to their friends in the FBI/CIA, who would arrange to ambush our troops on the ground by informing our enemies.
“no one can seriously dispute that the process was appallingly mishandled by this administration.”
I am a staunch Trump supporter, but what he did — and how he did it — was inexplicable. I have no problem with pulling out our troops; but it should have been tactically orchestrated with the Kurds, so as to give them the chance to set up their own strategy and implement it.
What Trump did was “cut-and-run” in the most basic sense. As I said, inexplicable.