> The move on Wednesday aligns the Pentagon with the congressional intent for the top special operations civilian. In the fiscal year 2017 National Defense Authorization Act, lawmakers ordered the Pentagon to raise the assistant secretary of defense for special operations and low intensity conflict to a service secretary-like job and report directly to the defense secretary “for issues impacting the readiness and organization of special operations forces, special operations-peculiar resources and equipment, and civilian personnel management.”
This sounds like little more than bureaucratic i-dotting and t-crossing, as per congressional instruction. Why the post here?
To be clear, he doesn't want to bring all the troops home. He want's to pull out of Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria. The question shouldn't be why pull out of these places. The question should be, what is the benefit of keeping troops there.
Pulling out of "pointless" foreign wars was part of his 2016 platform.
It was also what Obama wanted to do.
>Obama gave his first major foreign policy speech of his campaign on April 23, 2007 to the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, in which he outlined his foreign policy objectives, stressing five key points:
>1. "bringing a responsible end to this war in Iraq and refocusing on the critical challenges in the broader region,"
> > 1. "bringing a responsible end to this war in Iraq and refocusing on the critical challenges in the broader region,"
> Why was Obama unable to achieve his top foreign policy goal?
The Iraq War Obama was referring to ended, and US combat troops participating in it were withdrawn from Iraq, in 2011. [0]
The Syrian Civil War and (largely fueled by their involvement therein) the resurgence in Iraq of the group that ended up as "the Islamic State" (the name kept changing over time) prompted a new war, overlapping in territory with that recently-ended one, which the US became increasingly involved in, particularly with the air strikes beginning in 2014.
If you look at the original tweet, there are apparently still troops in Syria. The military is lying to the president, and American people about it and Washington Post reporters and CNN Anchors are celebrating this deception.
> The question shouldn't be why pull out of these places. The question should be, what is the benefit of keeping troops there.
The question should also be why pull troops out of those places. For instance, there are a number of reports in the past week that he's looking to attack Iran. Is he pulling troops out of there to deploy elsewhere?
Are you suggesting that ending the real war in Afghanistan should not happen because there are rumours of another war possibly being plotted in the future? That doesn't make sense to me.
The report you are referring to is this: Trump 'asked for options on strike on Iran nuclear site
I'd be worried if Commander and Chief of the Armed Forces wasn't regularly asking to see the plans for possible action against a hostile nation.
It's their responsibility to ensure that military is prepared for these possibilities.
> Are you suggesting that ending the real war in Afghanistan should not happen because there are rumours of another war possibly being plotted in the future? That doesn't make sense to me.
Not at all. I’m saying, he hasn’t bothered to end the war in Afghanistan yet, and so if he’s suddenly doing it 2 months before he’s out of power, the question of what he’s planning to do with those soldiers is significant.
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[ 3.5 ms ] story [ 36.0 ms ] threadThis sounds like little more than bureaucratic i-dotting and t-crossing, as per congressional instruction. Why the post here?
Corporate media, senior DOD officials, many politicians are all trying to stop this from happening.
https://twitter.com/aaronjmate/status/1327310245627047938
Any ideas why he's trying to do that?
Pulling out of "pointless" foreign wars was part of his 2016 platform.
It was also what Obama wanted to do.
>Obama gave his first major foreign policy speech of his campaign on April 23, 2007 to the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, in which he outlined his foreign policy objectives, stressing five key points:
>1. "bringing a responsible end to this war in Iraq and refocusing on the critical challenges in the broader region,"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_policy_of_the_Barack_O...
Why was Obama unable to achieve his top foreign policy goal?
> Why was Obama unable to achieve his top foreign policy goal?
The Iraq War Obama was referring to ended, and US combat troops participating in it were withdrawn from Iraq, in 2011. [0]
The Syrian Civil War and (largely fueled by their involvement therein) the resurgence in Iraq of the group that ended up as "the Islamic State" (the name kept changing over time) prompted a new war, overlapping in territory with that recently-ended one, which the US became increasingly involved in, particularly with the air strikes beginning in 2014.
[0] https://www.cfr.org/timeline/iraq-war
Obama promises year-end close to Afghanistan war 2014
https://www.cnbc.com/2014/05/25/obama-promises-afghanistan-w...
If you look at the original tweet, there are apparently still troops in Syria. The military is lying to the president, and American people about it and Washington Post reporters and CNN Anchors are celebrating this deception.
https://twitter.com/LizSly/status/1327137565288378370
Powerful forces want to keep the US at war.
The question should also be why pull troops out of those places. For instance, there are a number of reports in the past week that he's looking to attack Iran. Is he pulling troops out of there to deploy elsewhere?
The report you are referring to is this: Trump 'asked for options on strike on Iran nuclear site
I'd be worried if Commander and Chief of the Armed Forces wasn't regularly asking to see the plans for possible action against a hostile nation.
It's their responsibility to ensure that military is prepared for these possibilities.
Not at all. I’m saying, he hasn’t bothered to end the war in Afghanistan yet, and so if he’s suddenly doing it 2 months before he’s out of power, the question of what he’s planning to do with those soldiers is significant.