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| Syria-Lebanon-Iran |
| Fox Curvy Couch Expert Brian Kilmeade To Sarah Sanders: Let's Face It, Trump Just Re-Founded ISIS |
| 2018-12-22 |
| [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 |
| #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 |
| #9 I think the reason the troops were withdrawn might be because Erdogan intends to attack the Kurds they are stationed with.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 |
| #8 Blackwater awaits a phone call. |
| Posted by: gorb 2018-12-22 12:35 |
| #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 |
| #6 Some perspective may be helpful retarding the ongoing topic of US troop withdrawals. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-12-22 09:45 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |