Taking to Twitter on Saturday, President Trump declared that a decision has been made on the Afghanistan War following yesterday’s Camp David meeting. This was a single sentence, and not followed by further details.
Speculation on the war has circled for months. Trump had initially delegated the decision to Defense Secretary James Mattis, but Mattis found a cap limiting his maximum deployment too restrictive. Now, Vice President Pence and National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster are also taking up the cause of large-scale escalation, pushing Trump to accept the recommendations of the commanders.
Pence and McMaster were at the Camp David meeting, but Blackwater founder Erik Prince, who has been pushing a “privatize the war” initiative, was blocked, apparently at the behest of McMaster. Trump aide Steve Bannon, another skeptic of military escalation, was sacked outright.
Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee-Sanders gave no hints on what had been decided either, though she did say that a formal announcement will be made “at the appropriate time.” Before the Tweet, reports out of Washington suggested nothing had been decided at all during the meeting.
With the Camp David meeting stacked with hawks, it’s unclear if President Trump’s reticence about signing off on a large scale escalation of the losing war is still intact. He’s clearly under both mounting pressure to make a decision, and pressure from Republican hawks to make it a decision to double down on the war, however, so if he didn’t sign off on that, the people briefing him during the Camp David meeting would’ve likely discouraged him making an announcement on a “decision” to try to keep whittling down his resistance.
The sick American obsession with “Winning” rears its sickko face, only to lose it again on the plains of Afghanistan….!!!!! hasn’t this marshal crew of advisors read any Kipling…
Seriously …. does anyone in those pictures look the slightest as the type who would read Kipling? Maybe the collected quotes of George Patton perhaps, but Kipling, no way. Why would they want to learn from people who’ve gone before and made the same mistakes? Nope, ours is but to do and die when the idiot generals order the Light Brigade to charge.
Sounds very decisive. Making a decision, I mean.
Yeah, clearly he’s not happy with this one or he’d be running at the mouth like he is the other twenty three hours of the day.
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Got to love spam from the sort of idiots who can’t even compose a sentence. Or maybe its a marketing tactic that they fake so they can really attract the sort of idiots (read suckers) from which they can take money.
Wanna bet the unwinnable perpetual war for profit will go on and on. We are being scammed and conned.
Decision made ….. A lot more people are going to die. A lot more people are giong to be maimed. Some people are going to be tortured.
Now that Trump has done an Obama, meaning he ran for President opposed to war but is now very pro-war and pro-killing people, what else was he going to do?
The USA is no longer a democracy. We’ve had Ivy League political scientists tell us this. And consider that the last two Presidents had to pretend to be anti-war to win election, but then soon after being elected the will of the people is ignored. A democracy means that the sovereign power of the country lies in the hands of the people, and that what the people want should make the decisions of the country. But in the US, its the rich elites who make decisions and the will of the people is ignored and scorned.
What would “victory” look like? Kill em all and send in settlers?
And steal their natural resources.
Everybody knows that Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires. If trump wants to make America great then why doesn’t he pull our troops out of Afghanistan?
What a bunch of horrible people
Lie, deny and alibi. Will it never end?… If Trump escalates this by sending more troops, he is over and out. Deep state owns his a-s.
A decision has been made
The CIA’s precious heroin smuggling ring known as the Golden Crescent, a major source of their black budget, shall be protected with taxpayer funds and American blood, at home with an opioid epidemic and overseas through soldiers blood. Not to mention the blood of countless innocents caught in the crossfire and /or deliberately targeted to satiate the sadistic spirit we possess, engraving fear im the psyches of our victims. It’ll be the greatest Golden Crescent ever, just fabulous believe me you’ll be so proud, guaranteed paid legal fees.
Make the Deep State great again, soft military coup and all.
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