Will Trump’s overseas troop withdrawals
help him — or will they even matter?
McClatchy Newspapers,
by
Andrew Malcolm
Original Article
Posted By: SurferLad,
9/15/2020 8:16:39 AM
In theory, deploying and/or withdrawing U.S. military forces abroad is all about this country’s national security. In practice, however, politics is always close by. And in this election year, both President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden are taking credit for troop decisions. Biden’s campaign claim that he was in charge of withdrawing 150,000 U.S. service members from Iraq in 2011 is what Mark Twain would call “a stretcher.” Trump made reducing foreign military involvements a major
Reply 1 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 9/15/2020 8:36:15 AM (No. 541226)
They probably matter to the troops being withdrawn and their families.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Strike3 9/15/2020 8:59:20 AM (No. 541259)
YOU don't matter, Andrew. The withdrawal is long overdue by about eighteen years. We should have smashed the hostile Middle Eastern countries from the air and deported every muslim in the country in 2002 who danced in the streets and spoke out against America. The Twin Towers would have been the last terrorist attack on this country.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
aasilver 9/15/2020 9:28:52 AM (No. 541296)
Andrew would have negative comments if Trump, personally, developed a cure for cancer, aids and obesity.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
fhancock 9/15/2020 9:34:32 AM (No. 541305)
If you have been deployed as many times as the nation's military has been since 9/11...you d*mn right it matters...3 to 7 combat deployments over the last 18 years for many soldiers is RIDICULOUS...either win the war or expand your military or declare victory and get out
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 9/15/2020 9:42:09 AM (No. 541314)
Malcolm should google the phrase, ''There will be wars and rumors of wars.''
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
hershey 9/15/2020 9:44:17 AM (No. 541317)
Anything this worthless basement dweller says is 'stretching' fact...unless he finally 'fesses up and says he is a bottom feeding lowlife lying liberal baby killing gun grabbing lunatic
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
MDConservative 9/15/2020 10:03:11 AM (No. 541341)
The question is whether it will matter to the electorate in November. The likely answer is no. The public still can't find Iraq or Afghanistan on a map, and after decades of involvement long ago lost interest. Why any surprise?
Originally we were to defeat Saddam, wrest his "weapons of mass destruction" and leave. We were to "get bin Laden", put a boot up some butts and leave. It didn't work out that way, and one is left to speculate why. Bush43 begat Obama, who begat Trump. Early on "surges" became the order of the day among "conservatives". And to what end? Two decades...
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 9/15/2020 10:29:52 AM (No. 541386)
It matters; promises made, promises kept.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
earlybird 9/15/2020 10:58:26 AM (No. 541429)
Poor Andrew. Might as well be in the basement with Biden.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 9/15/2020 11:23:10 AM (No. 541455)
It would matter to me and I'm sure to the soldiers and families. It would be another success story for President Trump. I don't believe Trump would be wrong to end the Afghanistan conflict and let the Taliban and tribes do what they've been doing, killing one another for centuries. We should not spill on more drop of American blood or have another soldier maimed.
It's a new era and much can be settled with special ops and drones. Technology is the future of warfare and the President knows that. Malcomb is a dumb buffoon, idiot clown.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
TulsaTowner 9/15/2020 11:45:31 AM (No. 541477)
President Trump is doing it because it is the right thing to do. What a novel concept.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
HotRod 9/15/2020 12:01:30 PM (No. 541490)
Dear Andrew: Must EVERYTHING be viewed through a political lens? Like a man once said: Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar....
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
TulsaTowner 9/15/2020 12:34:15 PM (No. 541526)
Gotta choose your battles ----
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
TulsaTowner 9/15/2020 12:36:08 PM (No. 541530)
Sorry, wrong thread. Don't know how I did that!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
JoElla Bee 9/15/2020 1:12:40 PM (No. 541580)
Just had to shake my head at the cynicism of that headline and everything it completely ignores.
Yes, fellow posters, it matters to WTP , and to the troops, their families and loved ones, AND it obviously matters to the POTUS on a personal level as well.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Penny Spencer 9/15/2020 2:29:28 PM (No. 541653)
Malcolm seems to take the cynical view that the military vote is unimportant. Last time I looked, the military was part of "the electorate." And those who have been deployed there certainly can find Iraq and Afghanistan on the map. .
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Anecdotal, but it matters to my father-in-law. Voted democrat because W got us involved in Iraq. Voting for Trump this time around.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
DVC 9/15/2020 6:52:03 PM (No. 541936)
Malcolm in on my "never waste your time with this fool" list.
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