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Fox Curvy Couch Expert Brian Kilmeade To Sarah Sanders: Let's Face It, Trump Just Re-Founded ISIS
[Hot Air] This is the third day in a row that a host of the president’s favorite show has unloaded on him on air for troop withdrawals. Credit to Brian Kilmeade (and Fox) for not pulling his punches despite pressure from his audience to conform and a keen awareness that the commander-in-chief was probably watching.Although if this keeps up, I’d bet on "Fox & Friends" having one less friend next year. Spare a thought too for poor Sarah Sanders. Instead of making straightforward defenses of Trump’s policy ‐ "Americans are tired of war and don’t understand what our national interest is in Syria" ‐ she’s forced for whatever strange reason to resort to inanities like this: Putin said publicly within the past 36 hours that he agrees with Trump’s decision to withdraw. Russian state media is chipper about it. And ISIS doesn’t threaten Russia, or at least doesn’t need to. Surely an agreement can be reached between the axis of Assad and the jihadis to leave them unmolested in some small enclave of Syria provided that they steer their jihad towards mutual enemies like the United States. Even if it can’t, sporadic battles with ISIS is a price Russia and Iran should be willing to pay to have the United States out of their way in the region. Kilmeade’s criticism is harsh and hyperbolic (although he’s playing off of Trump’s own hyperbole) but more reasonable than Sanders’s spin. Our media is strongly pro-intervention and even more strongly anti-Trump so the reaction to withdrawal from Syria and Mattis resigning was destined to be grim. But … it’s really grim. Posted by: Besoeker 2018-12-22 |
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