Trump just called his Syria policy "strategically brilliant"

[highplainsdem]

This during a press conference with the Italian president.

Trump looks like hell, has been scowling much of the time.

[Pachamama]

1. The vile evil daughterfucker is insane...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. "I meant to do that!" says Wile E. Coyote after falling off a cliff.

[Botany]

3. Trump's betrayal of the Kurds is sickening to U.S. soldiers

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/for-us-soldiers-its-a-dagger-to-the-heart-to-abandon-the-kurds/2019/10/14/f0a1db60-eecf-11e9-89eb-ec56cd414732_story.html


“It’s a dagger to the heart to walk away from people who shed blood for us,” one former top CIA official who attended the black-tie dinner told me later. A retired four-star general who was there said the same thing: Trump’s retreat was an “unsound, morally indefensible act” and a “disgrace” to America and the soldiers who serve this country.

This sense of anguish was pervasive among those attending the event, several attendees said. It was an annual dinner honoring the Office of Strategic Services, the secret World War II commando group that was a forerunner of today’s CIA and Special Operations forces. The event celebrated the military alliances that have always been at the center of American power. It was a bitter anniversary this year.


It’s probably impossible for Americans to fully grasp the sense of betrayal felt by the Syrian Kurds, who suffered 11,000 dead and 24,000 wounded in a war that we asked them to fight. But perhaps we can understand the shame and outrage of the Special Operations forces who fought alongside them and now see the Kurds cast aside to face their Turkish enemies alone.

“It will go down in infamy,” said one Army officer who served in the Syria campaign. “This will go down as a stain on the American reputation for decades.” Those may sound like extreme sentiments, but they’re widely shared by those who served in the Syria mission. For these soldiers, abandoning an ally on the battlefield is about the worst thing that can happen.

Link to tweet

[smirkymonkey]

4. He is incapable of doing anything "strategically".

He is pure impulse and reactivity.

God, he is such a fucking horse's ass I can't stand it. He has the nerve to do something so idiotic, ill-thought out and destructive and then turn around and claim that not only was it part of a "strategy" but that it was "brilliant"?

I just hate him so much I want to scream at the top of my lungs. Someone please sedate me until this nightmare is over.

[ooky]

5. Someday the front legs of that yellow chair he's sitting in are going to collapse.

He looks like a buffoon sitting there with his ass on the front edge of the chair.

I believe he sits that way because he thinks it make him look skinnier.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

6. MOMENTS AGO: Trump says Kurds in Syria are "No Angels"

https://www.c-span.org/video/?465349-1/moments-ago-president-trump-kurds-syria-no-angels&live

I don't have the time for this. Aaron Rupar does. Follow him at https://twitter.com/atrupar. He's live-tweeting the affair.

Aaron Rupar Retweeted

11,000 Kurds died fighting alongside U.S. troops to defeat ISIS in Syria.

Then Trump gave the green light to Turkey to slaughter them

Link to tweet

[gratuitous]

7. Didn't take long for him to blame his victims, did it?

Every one of our allies has to be re-evaluating every aspect of their relationship to the United States.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

8. I know I should have seen it coming, but I'm still shaking my head. NT

[Jirel]

9. The followup lines were worse.

They'll "work it out, hopefully without fighting," REALLY?!?!? Not to mention the claim that some ISIS fighters were released "TO MAKE US LOOK A LITTLE BAD?!?!?!?!?!?" This insane idiot must go.

[moondust]

11. Mr. Bankruptcy shows how it's done!

Brilliant!