In comments Thursday, President Trump dismissed the reports of a plan for 10,000 more US troops being sent to the Middle East, telling reporters that “I would certainly send troops if we need them,” but that “I don’t think we’re going to need them.”
The call for troops was initially instigated by CENTCOM, who requested troops from the Pentagon, who then have to solicit approval from the White House to actually do it. CENTCOM cited the US-Iran tensions as the reason they want more troops.
CENTCOM’s push was claimed to be based on intelligence about Iranian threats, though President Trump has already dismissed that idea, too, saying earlier this week that there is “no indication that anything’s happened or will happen” with Iran.
This makes it very unlikely that President Trump is going to be coaxed into signing off on the deployment based on claims of classified evidence, since he’s already told the public that such intelligence doesn’t exist at all.
The Military Industrial Complex will do anything to keep wars going.
Good, I hope this is the case, although who knows which direction Trump will be leaning once his ‘advisors’ sit him down and remind him how evil and nefarious Iran is.
How much more will it take to understand that Trump is in conflict with The Swamp that is the “foreign policy” (aka imperial) establishment.
This would have been evident to one and all long ago but for the very class-based Trump Derangement Syndrome. It infects the higher classes both Left and Right so anxious to avoid the designation of the low brow “Deplorables.”
And yet he picks all of his subordinates from that Swamp and that establishment and turns them loose to raise hell.
The real Derangement Syndrome is among those who believe that he’s anything other than a typical politician, making promises out of one side of his mouth and breaking them out of the other.
There’s no shame in getting conned, but staying conned while the guy dances around pointing at you and singing “I conned you, I conned you, nyah nyah nyah nuk nuk” for two freaking years? That’s either gullibility/naivete on steroids, or just flat psychosis.
While I mainly agree, I do disagree that he’s a “typical” politician. And, yes. He’s a conman, no doubt. But his is a different con, thus the wailing and gnashing of teeth on MSNBCNN.
Unfortunately, his con and its reliance on certain moneymen is ending us in the same place of empire and war, with a side dish of proto-fascism back home. But I do enjoy his occasional lapses of truth (“we have killers too”; “why can’t we be friends with Russia”; etc.). They have, at minimum, really exposed and clarified who stands against empire in mainstream politics and media.
Trump is trolling the world and Americans. Best not to pay attention anymore, not worth it.
Yes, “Troll in Chief” is definitely a big part of the big con.
He has escalated all engagements in every theater. What “new wars” are possible ? No progress in Korea, by him, no progress with Russia. Obama did not “start” new wars. He intervened in civil wars, bad, but not the same thing.
But he’s a very stable genius.
The cool clear logic of your argument is impressive.
Rather than making a blanket statement is it not wiser to support the worthwhile initiatives of Trump – like attempts to withdraw from Afghanistan and Syria, the latter causing his SoD to resign, and attempts to engage with North Korea and Russia – and condemn the many bad ones – like the use of sanctions which are an act of war, the confrontation with Iran and Venezuela and the so-called trade war with China. (And domestically I would add FIRST STEP.). It is not hard.
He may be a con man but so far he is not up to Obama’s or W’s level since he has not given us any new wars. What a failure!
It is also not hard to condemn every politician for everything – and stand bravely above the fray. But it gets you nowhere, I am afraid.
But ignore everything that led up to this. Abandoning the JCPOA, the sanctions and the recent military buildup based on secretive intelligence that Iran is planning to attack us. None of that seems like it’s in conflict with “the swamp”. And by tomorrow Trump will probably be back to promising Iran that they won’t exist if they continue to “threaten” us. Of course you won’t be commenting on that since your own TDS won’t allow it.
As if anyody is listening to him. Should we feel sorry for him? If he does not accept their plans and decisions, sooner or later not a cinderblick will remain of his NYC towers, and he and his family in jail.
As usual the left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing.
Last I recall reading, marines were embarked and on their way.
I’ll say this straight up: Trump is lying about this. 10,000 troops is precisely the number the neocons and Israel need to assist Israeli troops in rooting out Hezbollah. The four B-52s he sent to the Middle East a short while ago are precisely what they need to bomb Hezbollah bunkers and missile caches in Lebanon.
Trump has already agreed or will agree to the US supporting Israel against Hezbollah in Lebanon either this summer or next summer – probably this summer. All Israel has to do is foment some incident on the border and all Trump’s antipathy against Iran and “Iranian proxies” – as well as the probability of getting a “poll bump” and talking points in the 2020 elections will cause him to do everything he’s denying doing now. And he knows this.
People need to stop trusting Trump as some principled President who will stop the Deep State, the neocons and Israel from getting what they want. He doesn’t have the brains and he doesn’t have the will.
Tulsi Gabbard crossed the Rubicon yesterday on Tucker Carlson’s show when she declared that it is “Bibi Netanyahu and Saudi Arabia who are trying to push us into war with Iran.” For the first time a candidate other than Mike Gravel has named Netanyahu as one of the prime movers behind the push for war with Iran.
Carlson responded he expects Gabbard to be subjected to vicious attacks from the Democrats and the MSM for even though a majority of the voters in both political parties agree with her.
See the interview at:
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rep-gabbard-tells-tucker-carlson-war-with-iran-would-be-devastating