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Trump telegraphing military plans again!

http://thehill.com/policy/defense/3...rom-syria-faced-unanimous-opposition-from-top

Trump's hipocrisy has no bounds. Once again, he does EXACTLY what he has criticized others for doing.

I posted in another thread that our real problem is that we really do need those 2,000 troops to stay. The fallacy in thinking we can just pull up stakes everywhere is that power abhors a vacuum. Everyplace we leave either China or Russia or even Iran parish the thought well simply move in. We have to be delirious to think the Middle East is no longer important enough to maintain our presence. It is the US that will find itself isolated and no longer powerful if we are not careful. This idea that making America petty means making America great is just ignorant. There is no other way to say it. Its just ignorant.

I have no idea what we think we are going to accomplish any longer in Afghanistan. But you do not want to leave Netanyahu with an itchy trigger finger as he already has problems and the Saudi princes can't defend themselves against a sturdy attack dog.

Our real problem is not getting out of Syria. Its being allowed to stay. We are not even trying to engage in the discussions of the future of Syria. We are leaving the field to the Russians. At some point, Assad with Russia's support will actually demand that we leave his country and suddenly we will find out that Assad could allow people to run roughshod over his country all the way up to the point when he does not want to allow it any longer and then sovereignty becomes Assad's ally. Our military minds that have a far better understanding of the geopolitical environment in the Middle East than trump ever thought of having appear to have talked trump back to another of his wishy washy positions which more often than not ends up the position trump takes regardless of the rhetoric. However at the end of the day, unless we actually get into the discussions, Assad is simply going to show us the door. At that point we are going to be left with the embarrassment of being kicked out by Assad and left with Israel and Saudi just beside themselves with the sudden shift in the geopolitical sands under their feet.
 
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