Force protection & self defense are always #1 priority.Kismet wrote: ↑Mon Jan 06, 2020 7:08 amTotal delusion on your part. They take their orders from the IMPOTUS which explains why they are there and all the others have left. In the past few weeks, 5 senior DoD staffers quit because they could not keep doing this BS for the Dope in charge.old salt wrote: ↑Mon Jan 06, 2020 4:41 amPompeo, Esper, Milley & O'brien are doing a great job.Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Mon Jan 06, 2020 12:09 amHe is duly elected so he can fire whoever he wants. It's not illegal.a fan wrote: ↑Mon Jan 06, 2020 12:07 amHe keeps firing the competent guys, remember? Elections have consequences...old salt wrote: ↑Sun Jan 05, 2020 11:51 pm That is such BS. You don't include options of that significance & import, hoping that they are not selected.
Anyone in the chop chain who did not realize that such an option would appeal to Trump, is not smart enough to be in such a position.
They may have been surprised that Trump chose it, but you don't put an option like that on the table unless you want it done.
Gen Milley left it on the list. How many soldiers do you think he lost to Iranian EFP's in Iraq ?
All in step. No personal agendas, no back biting, no leaks from them.
Trump's finally got a national security team, all pulling in the same direction
to implement the policies that got the President elected, rather than their own.
They might be smarter than Trump, but they don't feel the need to show him up to prove it.
If the plan is really to withdraw why is IMPOTUS trying to intimidate the Iraqis into letting us remain by threatening sanctions and sending them a bill for our costs to build infrastructure to support operations?
Right now all our people are doing is self-defense and force protection. No training, no anti-ISIS operations. We don't have enough assets to monitor all locations across the region.
"No amount of evidence will EVER persuade an IDIOT" - Mark Twain
No point in training ISF & further anti-ISIS ops until our forces are safe & the Iraqi govt agrees to protect then & rein in the PMF.
If they want our help & protection, they need to commit to doing their part.
You'll be leading the critics the first soldier we lose.