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Raqqa liberated from ISIS control
CNN's Nick Patton Walsh looks back at the rise and fall of ISIS in Raqqa, Syria.Source: CNN
You are wrong -- they did a similar story.
I remember clearly last year much discussion that as Isis loses territory their focus becomes on radicalization via the internet and encouraging violence in other parts of the world.
Ahhh Trump has announced that he wants to reduce the troops in Syria soon but unlike Obama did, Trump did not give a specific date to our enemies.
It is odd that what was a global threat has now been reduced to a back page story that is hardly reported.
You are jumping the gun, as did the idiot in chief.
Trump isn't "giving a specific date" because he has no idea what the hell he is doing or what is going on in Syria.
And he's not pulling out at all--once the generals laid into him for his ignorance, the non-timeline has changed back to being a non-timeline.
Odd? It is not a back page story to those fighting the very real ISIS. Maybe if Trump did not have an obsessive need for being the center of attention, tweeting outrageously ignorant, false and hostile comments, while attempting to make US policy based on his childish emotions and fragile ego, pertinent news would be reported.
"...The statement indicated that the president’s top military advisers, who have argued that maintaining United States forces in Syria is crucial to defeating the Islamic State and ensuring that the militant group cannot regain a foothold in the region, have succeeded — at least for now — in persuading an impatient commander in chief not to order a quick withdrawal....
...It was the latest instance of the president making an unscripted remark with far-reaching implications that prompted a behind-the-scenes scramble by his advisers to translate blunt talk into an official government policy.
White House and administration officials also had spent Monday and Tuesday trying to translate a series of confusing presidential tweets and comments on immigration into a coherent strategy, including a new legislative push and the mobilization of the National Guard to the southern border..."
Gates and Panetta Blast Obama for Micromanaging Military
Former Defense Secretaries Robert Gates and Leon Panetta have joined in accusing President Obama and the White House National Security Council staff (NSC) of micromanaging the military to the point of attempting to set up direct lines of communication to combatant commanders. "It was micromanagement that drove me crazy," Gates said at the Reagan National Defense Forum at President Ronald Reagan's library in California over the weekend.
Gates said he had to deal with members of the NSC staff who directly called four-star generals on matters of strategy and tactics. The White House also attempted to make direct contact with Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), Gates said. "I told JSOC if they got a call from the White House you tell them to go to hell and call me," Gates said to a round of applause from the audience.Gates said the Obama White House too often let politics influence the policy when it came to the Defense Department.
At the same forum, Panetta, a Democrat, had similar criticisms of Obama and his staff on military matters, and singled out the current campaign against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in which Obama has ruled out the use ground combat troops. "Never tell your enemy what the hell you're going to do," Panetta said.
Again, doesn't the liberal media tell you anything? I know, I know, they were more interested in pandering to Obama and his supporters.
Originally Posted by jbgusa View Post
I'm mad at MSM for teaching us everything we don't want to know about Trump's roll in the hay with Stormy Daniels but very little about a significant American and Western victory. I guess they're upset that it was accomplished in part by MOAB that by a bunch of diplomats and wealthy people clinking cocktail glasses.
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Originally Posted by carterstamp
read.the.article.
What? Do you have to be spoon fed? Don't you research anything on your own?
Originally Posted by petch751 View Post
It is said that Obama micro managed and would go against the very people on the ground and in the middle of it. Just like with any job, it's easy for pencil pushers to "think" they know how to do a job when they are not on the front lines. It's trying to do a job with the boss who doesn't do the job standing over your shoulder. Yes Trump believes that the people who know the best is people who are highly experienced and knowledgeable with a greater understanding instead of being a micro manager.
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Link?
carterstamp having to be spoon fed AGAIN. No wonder it's so easy for the liberal media to tell you what to think. Open that brain up to information other than liberal media spoon feeding... here comes the link straight from the military news where Democrats in the military complained that Obama micromanaged the military.
What's more important to America, ISIS or Russian collusion?
I personally have never cared about ISIS... Just saying....
Man, you guys really picked a loser for president. He screwed up with ISIS and was more interested in pandering to Putin. The guy didn't know who our enemies were.
"you were asked what is the biggest geopolitical group facing America, you said Russia" the 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back"
"Tell Vladimir that after the election I'll have more flexibility?"
Man, you guys really picked a loser for president. He screwed up with ISIS and was more interested in pandering to Putin. The guy didn't know who our enemies were.
"you were asked what is the biggest geopolitical group facing America, you said Russia" the 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back"
"Tell Vladimir that after the election I'll have more flexibility?"
Was this supposed to be a cognizant argument or just a pointless rant?
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