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2017-01-25 Home Front: WoT

The hard facts Team Trump should face on the Middle East

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Posted by Steve White 2017-01-25 07:56|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Brillian thinker, profound insights. Some of the reasons he never made into the Army senior grades.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-01-25 10:01|| 2017-01-25 10:01|| Front Page Top

#2 Hard to justify going to war if you aren't willing to do what it takes to win - even if the war is 'right.'

Posted by Glenmore 2017-01-25 10:46|| 2017-01-25 10:46|| Front Page Top

#3 I don't agree Russia is the enemy he portrays it as. China is a bigger threat IMO.

Otherwise he is right. Get out of Incirlik and set up an airbase in Iraqi Kurdistan.

Posted by phil_b 2017-01-25 15:55|| 2017-01-25 15:55|| Front Page Top

#4 I think the Trumpster and his team have no false illusions about the Middle East as the previous administration had.

Plus he doesn't have two foreign agents advising him and the Secretary of State on Middle Eastern matters.

I think we know that you cannot negotiate with them and they want us all dead or converted.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2017-01-25 19:50|| 2017-01-25 19:50|| Front Page Top

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