Mad Man Theory

NorthwestFresh said:

Whomever was involved in fooling the CIC in order to keep US troops in danger as occupiers in Syria should be court-martialed and imprisoned if true.

Trump was the last chance to restore power back to the people and expose the rot of DC.

RaceBannon said:

Its ok because Trump is unpopular

NorthwestFresh said:

GreenRiverGatorz said:

Horrible optics for Liz Sly and WaPo aside, the original article is a fascinating read.

https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2020/11/outgoing-syria-envoy-admits-hiding-us-troop-numbers-praises-trumps-mideast-record/170012/

Jeffrey now says that Trump’s “modest” and transactional approach to the Middle East has yielded a more stable region than either of his predecessors’ more transformational policies. President George W. Bush’s 2003 State of the Union speech heralding the seismic U.S. intervention into Iraq and President Barack Obama’s 2009 speech in Cairo proclaiming a “new beginning” with the Muslim world represent an approach to the Middle East that “made things worse” and “weakened us,” Jeffrey said. Trump’s administration, he said, has looked at the Middle East through a geostrategic lens and kept its focus on Iran, Russia, and China, while keeping the metastatic “disease” of Islamist terror in check.

Jeffrey believes Trump has achieved a kind of political and military “stalemate” in a number of different cold and hot conflicts, producing a situation that is about the best any administration could hope for in such a messy, volatile region.

Other administrations did the opposite and instigated and participated in new conflicts in the region. They don’t want stalemates, they have military contractors who helped elect them to enrich.

As I said in another thread, I expect ‘Assad’ to ‘gas his own people’ sometime next year even though he has no reason to do so, and we? have to intervene to save them by sending in more troops.

GreenRiverGatorz said:

NorthwestFresh said:

GreenRiverGatorz said:

Horrible optics for Liz Sly and WaPo aside, the original article is a fascinating read.

https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2020/11/outgoing-syria-envoy-admits-hiding-us-troop-numbers-praises-trumps-mideast-record/170012/

Jeffrey now says that Trump’s “modest” and transactional approach to the Middle East has yielded a more stable region than either of his predecessors’ more transformational policies. President George W. Bush’s 2003 State of the Union speech heralding the seismic U.S. intervention into Iraq and President Barack Obama’s 2009 speech in Cairo proclaiming a “new beginning” with the Muslim world represent an approach to the Middle East that “made things worse” and “weakened us,” Jeffrey said. Trump’s administration, he said, has looked at the Middle East through a geostrategic lens and kept its focus on Iran, Russia, and China, while keeping the metastatic “disease” of Islamist terror in check.

Jeffrey believes Trump has achieved a kind of political and military “stalemate” in a number of different cold and hot conflicts, producing a situation that is about the best any administration could hope for in such a messy, volatile region.

Other administrations did the opposite and instigated and participated in new conflicts in the region. They don’t want stalemates, they have military contractors who helped elect them to enrich.

As I said in another thread, I expect ‘Assad’ to ‘gas his own people’ sometime next year even though he has no reason to do so, and we? have to intervene to save them by sending in more troops.

That the military industrial complex exists and is a problem does not have to contradict the fact that Assad launched a sarin gas attack against his own citizens.

NorthwestFresh said:

Duckwithabone said:

NorthwestFresh said:

I’m just happy the US elected the VP of the administration that armed ISIS and gave billions to Iran so they could continue to fund terrorism.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2016/01/21/politics/john-kerry-money-iran-sanctions-terrorism/index.html

John Kerry: Some sanctions relief money for Iran will go to terrorism
By Elise Labott, CNN
Updated 2:39 PM EST, Thu January 21, 2016

Davos, Switzerland(CNN) Secretary of State John Kerry acknowledged to CNBC Thursday that some of the money Iran received in sanctions relief would go to groups considered terrorists.

When asked about whether some the $150 billion in sanctions relief to Iran would go to terrorist groups, Kerry reiterated that, after settling debts, Iran would receive closer to $55 billion. He conceded some of that could go to groups considered terrorists, saying there was nothing the U.S. could do to prevent that.

Ouch that’s a real bummer. Major piece of dirt you got there. We totally shouldn’t vote for any politician that’s made questionable policy decisions, especially when it comes to global fiscal decisions.

Funding Iranian terrorism is now a “questionable policy decision” even after they paid the Taliban bounties for killing US troops. A fair media and Biden doesn’t it make it past the first few Democrat primaries.

2010 bounties on US soldiers.

2016 give billions to the same people who paid bounties and is “questionable.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna39014669

Iran is paying Taliban fighters $1,000 for each U.S. soldier they kill in Afghanistan, according to a report in a British newspaper.

The Sunday Times described how a man it said was a "Taliban treasurer" had gone to collect $18,000 from an Iranian firm in Kabul, a reward it said was for an attack in July which killed several Afghan government troops and destroyed an American armored vehicle.

The treasurer left with the cash hidden in a sack of flour, the newspaper said, and then gave it to Taliban fighters in the province of Wardak. In the past six months, the treasurer claimed to have collected more than $77,000 from the company.

The Sunday Times said its investigation had found that at least five Kabul-based Iranian companies were secretly passing funds to the Taliban.

The newspaper's correspondent, Miles Amoore, said he met and interviewed the treasurer, who he said had been an illiterate farmer who was taught to read and write, plus basic accountancy, by the Taliban last winter.

"We don’t care who we get money from," the treasurer was quoted as saying. He described the relationship with Iran as a "marriage of convenience." Iran is a predominantly Shiite country, while the Taliban is dominated by Sunni Muslims.

Duckwithabone said:

NorthwestFresh said:

Duckwithabone said:

NorthwestFresh said:

I’m just happy the US elected the VP of the administration that armed ISIS and gave billions to Iran so they could continue to fund terrorism.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2016/01/21/politics/john-kerry-money-iran-sanctions-terrorism/index.html

John Kerry: Some sanctions relief money for Iran will go to terrorism
By Elise Labott, CNN
Updated 2:39 PM EST, Thu January 21, 2016

Davos, Switzerland(CNN) Secretary of State John Kerry acknowledged to CNBC Thursday that some of the money Iran received in sanctions relief would go to groups considered terrorists.

When asked about whether some the $150 billion in sanctions relief to Iran would go to terrorist groups, Kerry reiterated that, after settling debts, Iran would receive closer to $55 billion. He conceded some of that could go to groups considered terrorists, saying there was nothing the U.S. could do to prevent that.

Ouch that’s a real bummer. Major piece of dirt you got there. We totally shouldn’t vote for any politician that’s made questionable policy decisions, especially when it comes to global fiscal decisions.

Funding Iranian terrorism is now a “questionable policy decision” even after they paid the Taliban bounties for killing US troops. A fair media and Biden doesn’t it make it past the first few Democrat primaries.

2010 bounties on US soldiers.

2016 give billions to the same people who paid bounties and is “questionable.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna39014669

Iran is paying Taliban fighters $1,000 for each U.S. soldier they kill in Afghanistan, according to a report in a British newspaper.

The Sunday Times described how a man it said was a "Taliban treasurer" had gone to collect $18,000 from an Iranian firm in Kabul, a reward it said was for an attack in July which killed several Afghan government troops and destroyed an American armored vehicle.

The treasurer left with the cash hidden in a sack of flour, the newspaper said, and then gave it to Taliban fighters in the province of Wardak. In the past six months, the treasurer claimed to have collected more than $77,000 from the company.

The Sunday Times said its investigation had found that at least five Kabul-based Iranian companies were secretly passing funds to the Taliban.

The newspaper's correspondent, Miles Amoore, said he met and interviewed the treasurer, who he said had been an illiterate farmer who was taught to read and write, plus basic accountancy, by the Taliban last winter.

"We don’t care who we get money from," the treasurer was quoted as saying. He described the relationship with Iran as a "marriage of convenience." Iran is a predominantly Shiite country, while the Taliban is dominated by Sunni Muslims.

When you have an original thought that isn’t parroting oan and Twitter/Facebook trolls come back to the table.

SFGbob said:

Duckwithabone said:

NorthwestFresh said:

Duckwithabone said:

NorthwestFresh said:

I’m just happy the US elected the VP of the administration that armed ISIS and gave billions to Iran so they could continue to fund terrorism.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2016/01/21/politics/john-kerry-money-iran-sanctions-terrorism/index.html

John Kerry: Some sanctions relief money for Iran will go to terrorism
By Elise Labott, CNN
Updated 2:39 PM EST, Thu January 21, 2016

Davos, Switzerland(CNN) Secretary of State John Kerry acknowledged to CNBC Thursday that some of the money Iran received in sanctions relief would go to groups considered terrorists.

When asked about whether some the $150 billion in sanctions relief to Iran would go to terrorist groups, Kerry reiterated that, after settling debts, Iran would receive closer to $55 billion. He conceded some of that could go to groups considered terrorists, saying there was nothing the U.S. could do to prevent that.

Ouch that’s a real bummer. Major piece of dirt you got there. We totally shouldn’t vote for any politician that’s made questionable policy decisions, especially when it comes to global fiscal decisions.

Funding Iranian terrorism is now a “questionable policy decision” even after they paid the Taliban bounties for killing US troops. A fair media and Biden doesn’t it make it past the first few Democrat primaries.

2010 bounties on US soldiers.

2016 give billions to the same people who paid bounties and is “questionable.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna39014669

Iran is paying Taliban fighters $1,000 for each U.S. soldier they kill in Afghanistan, according to a report in a British newspaper.

The Sunday Times described how a man it said was a "Taliban treasurer" had gone to collect $18,000 from an Iranian firm in Kabul, a reward it said was for an attack in July which killed several Afghan government troops and destroyed an American armored vehicle.

The treasurer left with the cash hidden in a sack of flour, the newspaper said, and then gave it to Taliban fighters in the province of Wardak. In the past six months, the treasurer claimed to have collected more than $77,000 from the company.

The Sunday Times said its investigation had found that at least five Kabul-based Iranian companies were secretly passing funds to the Taliban.

The newspaper's correspondent, Miles Amoore, said he met and interviewed the treasurer, who he said had been an illiterate farmer who was taught to read and write, plus basic accountancy, by the Taliban last winter.

"We don’t care who we get money from," the treasurer was quoted as saying. He described the relationship with Iran as a "marriage of convenience." Iran is a predominantly Shiite country, while the Taliban is dominated by Sunni Muslims.

When you have an original thought that isn’t parroting oan and Twitter/Facebook trolls come back to the table.

Ironic.