We face a harsh new reality.

[struth]

The people of Syria are the terrorists?

The people of Syria killed our soldiers?? You can’t be that dumb…wait, maybe I shouldn’t of said that

 

[Concerned American]

Trump ramping up the issue in Syria where we have no business being to start with is indeed an issue.

Ironic, you didn't have an issue when your favorite vegetable put them there. LOL, ISIS kills two American service members in Syria and somehow you equate it with Trump because he SAID the US will retaliate. WTF, did you think the US would do. You're an ignorant partisan moron. BTW, WTF would YOU do, turn a blind eye to the deaths of Americans like Biden did in Afghanistan?

 

[struth]

You are the Democrat supporter. We have covered this many times.

We have, and I’m used to your deflection, we know defending Dems comes naturally to you

We just saw that yesterday

 

[SassyIrishLass]

ISIS in Syria is currently finding out what FAFO means.

Watch them bawl. Plenty of vids out there showing American retaliation

 

[Concerned American]

The people of Syria are the terrorists?

ISIS, educate yourself Poindexter.

 

[Concerned American]

You are the Democrat supporter. We have covered this many times.

Your phony deflections are as disingenuous as everything else you post---

 

[struth]

ISIS, educate yourself Poindexter.

pknopp can’t help it, his natural reaction is to defend Dems and attack those that get in his party’s way. If that means calling all the people of Syria, terrorist, he will do it

 

[SassyIrishLass]

ISIS, educate yourself Poindexter.

Leftist word salad never works

 

[pknopp]

The Taliban are a creation of the Islamic Fundamentalist faction within the Pakistan ISI;
...
The Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) (Urdu: انٹر سروسز انٹیلی جنس) is the military intelligence agency of Pakistan. It is responsible for gathering, processing, and analyzing information from around the world that is deemed relevant to Pakistan's national security. The main objective of the ISI is to integrate the Pakistan Armed Forces during wartime with real-time intelligence and support. The ISI reports to its agency executive and is primarily focused on providing intelligence to the Government of Pakistan and the Pakistan Armed Forces. It is part of the Pakistan Intelligence Community.
...
Relatively unknown outside of Pakistan since its inception, the agency gained global recognition and fame in the 1980s when it backed the Afghan mujahideen against the Soviet Union during the Soviet–Afghan War in the former Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. Over the course of the conflict, the ISI worked in close coordination with the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States and the Secret Intelligence Service of the United Kingdom to run Operation Cyclone, a program to train and fund the mujahideen in Afghanistan with support from China, Saudi Arabia, and other Muslim nations.

Following the dissolution of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan in 1992, the ISI provided strategic support and intelligence to the Taliban against the Northern Alliance during the Afghan Civil War in the 1990s.The ISI has strong links with jihadist groups, particularly in Afghanistan and Kashmir. Its special warfare unit is the Covert Action Division. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), in their first ever open acknowledgement in 2011 in US Court, said that the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) sponsors and oversees the insurgency in Kashmir by arming separatist militant groups.
...

Inter-Services Intelligence - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

So basically, put bluntly, to get rid of the Taliban requires making war on Pakistan and clearing out about half of their ISI.

For a start.

Things get more messy and complicated if and/or when that first goal/objective is achieved.

War with the entire world........smart......

 

[Independent thinker]

As recently as a decade ago, it would not have been hard to unite a broad majority of Republicans and Democrats around a shared idea of what America's military power should be for.

Defense of the homeland. Deterrence of would-be aggressors. Cooperation with treaty allies and protection of kindred democracies confronting common foes. Humanitarian aid and relief. The security of the global commons: sea lanes, air corridors, undersea cables, digital networks. Upholding the laws of war.

In sum, the ability to prevent war wherever possible and win it whenever necessary — all for the sake of a safer, more open, rules-based world.

The Trump administration brings a starkly different mind-set to the issue. Out with the Department of Defense; back to the Department of War. Well-established rules of engagement have yielded to blowing up small boats on the high seas. In place of standing with Ukraine’s embattled democracy against Russia’s invasion, the administration has adopted a course of moral equivalence between the two sides while seeking profits from the war through arms sales and mineral deals.

Opinion | A Free World Needs a Strong America

Preventing a world where dictators can attack at will requires a military that has the right tools, the right tactics and the right culture.

www.nytimes.com

Before launching in to the usual personal attacks, dismissive deflections, whataboutisms, and disparagements of the source, I ask a question of those who disagree with the content of the editorial. What, IYO, did the authors get wrong?

I don't want to limit the scope of the discussion to the regime's activities in the Caribbean, but is this not true?

Well-established rules of engagement have yielded to blowing up small boats on the high seas.

So the harsh new reality is someone's opinion?

 

[pknopp]

Your phony deflections are as disingenuous as everything else you post---

You Democrats wont own up to anything.

 

[Concerned American]

@pknopp can’t help it, his natural reaction is to defend Dems and attack those that get in his party’s way.

But he doesn't have the balls to admit that he is a democrat. Typical democrat = LIAR.

 

[22lcidw]

Coast Guard releases video of cocaine seizure in Pacific, showing shots fired at alleged drug boat

The Coast Guard said it has seized more than 150,000 pounds of cocaine in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, including a record-breaking bust earlier this month.

www.cbsnews.com

We catch very little of what is sent here.

 

[Concerned American]

War with the entire world........smart......

We already know what the democrats have set in motion--Hopefully, conservatives will stop it in spite of your desire.

 

[Concerned American]

You Democrats wont own up to anything.

If I advocated for what you do, I wouldn't admit to being a democrat either. DON'T LOOK HERE--NOTHING TO SEE, LOOK OVER THERE. Moron.

 

[pknopp]

We catch very little of what is sent here.

The administration admitted it wasn't even being sent here.

 

[struth]

But he doesn't have the balls to admit that he is a democrat. Typical democrat = LIAR.

Well he’s not, the Dems died in 2001. The demafasict took over the party, and he’s a loyal follower of the party

He’s been so programmed that defending them just comes as second nature

 

[pknopp]

If I advocated for what you do, I wouldn't admit to being a democrat either. DON'T LOOK HERE--NOTHING TO SEE, LOOK OVER THERE. Moron.

You are advocating getting more American's killed. And for what?

 

[struth]

The administration admitted it wasn't even being sent here.

The admin had never said all the narcoterrorist we’ve been able to take out weren’t coming here

They did acknowledge some was flowing to the larger market

 

[Concerned American]

You are advocating getting more American's killed. And for what?

Please link to that. You're LYING, AGAIN. You're favored democrats are the party responsible for EVERY American who is in danger in the world today. Take the blinders off, moron.