RedDenver Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 Trump approved the raid at a dinner attended not just by General Mattis, but also by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the vice president, and his national security adviser. I believe the advice of these folks would be adequate. Our military knows how to plan and carry out special ops missions, and a prudent President leaves the planning to military officials. There's conflicting reports on whether Mattis or the Joint Chiefs were consulted. Personally, I think it's easy to 20/20 hindsight any op and criticize the decisions. And there's going to be times we can say they made mistakes, but IMO the real question is whether Trump did the due diligence in planning. I doubt the veracity of the current evidence, so I'll wait and see what shakes out as true over the coming weeks and months. We may never know. 1 Link to comment
zoogs Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 http://www.newsweek.com/nolan-peterson-trump-distracted-putin-pounds-ukraine-551570 KIEV, Ukraine—Artillery and rockets have been raining down on the front-line town of Avdiivka in eastern Ukraine since Sunday, leaving 16,000 civilians, including 2,000 children, without heat, electricity or clean water as temperatures dipped to 20 degrees below zero Celsius, or about minus 4 Fahrenheit. “The recent intensification of hostilities on the contact line in eastern Ukraine has had a very heavy impact on the local population,” the International Committee of the Red Cross said in a statement Tuesday. “The weather conditions make the negative impact even more severe.” Complicit, supportive, or too distracted to respond. Heartbreaking photo of a 24-year old woman mourning her 60-year old mother. Killed while walking to a store: http://s.newsweek.com/sites/www.newsweek.com/files/styles/embed-lg/public/2017/02/02/0202ukraineputin01.jpg Link to comment
Lil' Red Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 Donald Trump's administration has imposed sanctions on Iran following its recent ballistic missile test. The sanctions target 13 people and 12 companies, including groups in China, Lebanon and the United Arab Emirates. President Trump tweeted earlier: "Iran is playing with fire - they don't appreciate how 'kind' President Obama was to them. Not me!" Iran called the threats from "an inexperienced person" useless, vowing to impose reciprocal measures. John Smith, the US Treasury Department's acting sanctions chief, said in a statement on Friday: "Iran's continued support for terrorism and development of its ballistic missile programme poses a threat to the region, to our partners worldwide and to the United States." Link I don't like where this is headed. That last quote seems rather ominous. Link to comment
Moiraine Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 Let's attack Iran. Maybe Russia will help us if we let them have Ukraine. Link to comment
Danny Bateman Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 To be fair, Trump did lie... errr, say... he was against the Iraq war. That one letter made all the difference. Link to comment
Danny Bateman Posted February 8, 2017 Share Posted February 8, 2017 That was fast. Awaiting impending tweetstorm against Yemen. Link to comment
Moiraine Posted February 8, 2017 Share Posted February 8, 2017 I'm sure the Trumpites will decide this is fine and that we only need to fight terror by secluding ourselves and closing our borders to everyone. Link to comment
Moiraine Posted February 8, 2017 Share Posted February 8, 2017 More evidence we shouldn't be working with Russia to defeat ISIS in Syria. http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/07/middleeast/syria-saydnaya-prison-detainee-stories/index.html Link to comment
Danny Bateman Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 More reason people should feel very gross about getting into bed with Russia. Human rights abuses. Link to comment
Danny Bateman Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 Significant development: He may want to start by having them, you know, stop ravaging Ukraine with attacks. 1 Link to comment
commando Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 Significant development: He may want to start by having them, you know, stop ravaging Ukraine with attacks. maybe trump will try to throw putin off his back? 1 Link to comment
TGHusker Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 I'm still trying to figure out his foreign policy. I'm getting jerked around by every news story that it is hard to get a handle on a consistent policy. that is why, it is in Trump's and the countries best interest for Trump to slow down, seclude himself away from twitter and just talk policy and not personalities. Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted February 14, 2017 Author Share Posted February 14, 2017 I'm still trying to figure out his foreign policy. I'm getting jerked around by every news story that it is hard to get a handle on a consistent policy. that is why, it is in Trump's and the countries best interest for Trump to slow down, seclude himself away from twitter and just talk policy and not personalities. BINGO!!!!!! Link to comment
Moiraine Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/14/politics/jason-chaffetz-donald-trump-mar-a-lago/index.html House Speaker Paul Ryan also downplayed the incident on Tuesday, telling reporters, "It's my understanding that no classified information was discussed. And talking about foreign policy at the dinner table is perfectly appropriate." What happened to Ryan? Was he paid a lot of $ to suddenly act like Trump's best friend? Link to comment
ZRod Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 More reason people should feel very gross about getting into bed with Russia. Human rights abuses. https://twitter.com/ABC/status/831304233211277312 We kill people too you know. 1 Link to comment
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