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30 October 2019
President Trump: Genius or Idiot?
So President Trump recently announced that he would be pulling our troops out of Syria, leaving those brave Kurds (insurgents who have no actual country) on their own. Oh how people in the U.S. lost their minds! Everybody had an opinion on What Would Happen Next! The crux of many people’s complaint was that this would lead to a regeneration of ISIS.
Two weeks later…
Trump: We found and killed the head of ISIS.
Everybody: Oh no! This will SURELY lead to a regeneration of ISIS! His number two man will take over!
Two days later…
Trump: Oh, and we killed the number two ISIS guy as well.
After the first guy, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (the guy who they say actually started ISIS) was killed, President Trump made a speech and very graphically described how Baghdadi died – which was not as a hero or martyr, but as a cowardly dog, using three of his children as a shield and then blowing himself (and them) up with a bomb that he just coincidentally and conveniently happened to be, you know, wearing. (It’s what all the well-dressed Muslim extremist/terrorists are wearing this Fall!)
Trump’s very clear message was: "America Is Back: Do not screw with us." The Obama era of conciliation and kowtowing to Muslims is OVER. Mess with us and we’ll sic the dogs of war on you. Literally, as in this case.
Trump lulled everyone into a false sense of security, making everyone think he was a big dummy for pulling out of Syria. Then he pulled out the Big Stick and killed Baghdadi as a parting shot. And you know that whole scheme was planned out well in advance. I mean, come one…putting together an “Op” like the one to get Baghdadi (and his Number Two man) must’ve taken a LOT of planning and coordination.
And so President Trump is either a tactical genius or a blithering idiot. You decide.
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While I don't think Trump is a blithering idiot, I haven't seen anything to convince me that he is a tactical genius either. So I would say somewhere in between.
What gets me about the uproar about pulling out of Syria is that the Current Occupant of the Whitehouse is not the one that got us involved in their civil war so how can he be blamed for wanting to get us out of a protracted civil war? We are in enough of them already in that region of the world. Yes it is unfortunate for the Kurds but they should have suspected that a country with no real business in that region might not hang around forever.
I'm tired of our country, with no real knowledge of the religious reasons why these countries have been killing each other forever, getting mired down in their conflicts all because of oil. We should be focusing our efforts on removing our need for their oil and then just let them duke it out and kill each other as they see fit. We certainly are not going to convince them to lay down their arms and sing Kumbaya.
True enough, Ed! Neither do I think Trump is a genius, but everyone exhibits flashes of it now and then, and this was his moment, I think. It showed the world that he is extraordinarily unpredictable...and maybe in that way, predictable. You don't know what he's going to do, but you can bet your ass it's going to be crazy.
Me, I'll never understand global politics and all the intricacies of the Middle East. "The Kurds" are apparently a people without a country. They're rebels...insurgents trying to claim land as their own - land that currently belongs to other countries. We used them to help "fight ISIS." They used us to get all kinds of military stuff. Does this mean we're indebted to them forever and ever? I dunno. If Trump wants to cut them off, I don't really care.
The Middle East as we know it was divided up into nation-states by England after WWI. This was done with apparently little regard to the tribes that occupied the areas. Needless to say, hilarity ensued and the tribes have been fighting ever since. The Middle East is a complicated, convoluted mess that likely will NEVER be sorted out. President George W. Bush involved the U.S. in trying to build democratic nations which even he admitted might take hundreds of years. Thanks, Dubya!
Now that the U.S. has somehow become a major oil producer that's bigger than Saudi Arabia (how'd *that* happen?!) and as we move inexorably away from petroleum-fuels and toward electric cars and solar energy in general, maybe President Trump can get us out of the Middle East? We can only hope.
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