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2018-12-22 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Fox Curvy Couch Expert Brian Kilmeade To Sarah Sanders: Let's Face It, Trump Just Re-Founded ISIS

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Posted by Besoeker 2018-12-22 06:29|| || Front Page|| [12 views ] Top

#1 Although if this keeps up, I’d bet on "Fox & Friends" having one less friend next year.

Shep and Chris Wallace quietly soil themselves.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-12-22 06:36|| 2018-12-22 06:36|| Front Page Top

#2 Obvious from the first sentence this was written by Allahpundit - squishy eeyore loser beta male

Posted by Frank G 2018-12-22 09:04|| 2018-12-22 09:04|| Front Page Top

#3 Wait and see. I believe SecDef Mattis was right, and President Trump is wrong. Read the resignation letter. It makes sense. And if you have been there you'd know the truth of it.

A phased withdrawal with support built in for our allies in the region would have been the way to go. This move was too abrupt, and looks too much like Obama's turn tail and run withdrawal from Iraq a few years ago.

Why can't you folks admit that Trump may have made a mistake here? Well intentioned, but so was Obama when he did the same thing in the region, and you see where that got us. This was a move that will cost us by emboldening Russia in the region, as well as Turkey and Iran. And that's a nuclear armed Iran, which threatens Israel and Saudi Arabia.

By the way, going ad hominem those who disagree with you is not going to win you friends, nor win the argument. It makes you look stupid.

Trump made a huge unforced error here.

Posted by Injun Bucket8891 2018-12-22 09:16|| 2018-12-22 09:16|| Front Page Top

#4 I have no problem with saying he MAY have made a mistake here. I'm just not a perfect prognosticator as some here seem to think they are. We'll see....

Posted by Frank G 2018-12-22 09:19|| 2018-12-22 09:19|| Front Page Top

#5 I too hope President Trump has not made a mistake, but if he has I hope its not as costly as I and others think it will be.

Posted by Injun Bucket8891 2018-12-22 09:39|| 2018-12-22 09:39|| Front Page Top

Some perspective may be helpful retarding the ongoing topic of US troop withdrawals.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-12-22 09:45|| 2018-12-22 09:45|| Front Page Top

#7 *Mistake*... People keeping using that word loosely as if everything can be boiled down into a single Yes/No/Good/Bad evaluation of the outcome. Withdrawing will have both Good and Bad outcomes and will cause us to change our strategies...
But First: What Are we doing by staying there? We are still in South Korea and after 60-odd years and most of the South Koreans want us to stay, can we say that of the people in Syria? Do we leave now or do we leave after a repeat of the 1983 Beirut Bombing?

Posted by magpie 2018-12-22 11:52|| 2018-12-22 11:52|| Front Page Top

#8 Blackwater awaits a phone call.

Posted by gorb 2018-12-22 12:35|| 2018-12-22 12:35|| Front Page Top

#9 I think the reason the troops were withdrawn might be because Erdogan intends to attack the Kurds they are stationed with. Could be wrong, but US troops dying at Turkish hands is problematic for keeping Ikrit open to say the least. Fact is, we probably won't know the full reasoning for months.

Posted by Charles 2018-12-22 14:34|| 2018-12-22 14:34|| Front Page Top

#10 Pull back into Kurdish Iraq. Let Russia deal with ISIS and bomb the crap out of them if they cross into Iraq.

Posted by ruprecht 2018-12-22 19:30|| 2018-12-22 19:30|| Front Page Top

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