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Pause for five days. but if we don t get what we want, we ll resume fighting. that is not a ceasefire, that s simply a cave in on our part and it s a sellout. and i think we should be careful because we have there s others in the works. on your list because it didn t happen yesterday, could potentially be afghanistan, a very similar thing. it s coming. or essentiallily we go around the world and we have serial sellouts of people who have been our partners. the president is caving in. the weakness ais shocking. the president has shown himself to be extraordinarily weak in his dealings with north korea and kim jong-un. the president has betrayed the kurds. the president this week has empowered isis. the president has empowered iran. the president has stabbed israel in the back. this really is the way he lived his life in ....
Be the sad aspect of what s going on in the world. in 11 days, 11 days in october, this october, the president of the united states has made the united states of america irrelevant in the most volatile, dangerous region in the world. he has. admiral, let s move to that part of the story yesterday. the president of the united states, again, not even getting played, just trying to find any fig leaf he can to hide the fact that he s betrayed our closest allies on the battlefield. he s empowered iran, he s empowered putin, he s empowered assad. he has undercut the kurds. he is the man who has reinvented isis. precisely. and, you know, a way to think of this as i watched that press ....
A chance to retreat, as they see it, they re now going to negotiate with the syrian government of bashar al assad as well as the russians backed by the iranians to fill that void. so if you have a president who s saying he s trying to weaken the hands of the iranians across the region, he has just empowered the central government in damascus backed by iran to reclaim territory that it had lost. now, keep in mind all the factual errors that the president talked about over the course of his speech yesterday saying that, you know, president obama lost 500,000 lives, that these, you know, talks have been going on for years between the turks and the kurds trying to make it sound like he was the one that brokered this amazing deal that had been in the works for years that avoided the casualty of millions of lives. those are factual incorrect statements. and on top of that, when you look at the giro politics oeopo turkey s in retreat, sire ayria ....
Palestinians and so forth. you have iran, syria, russia consolidating gains in syria. united states has walked away from one of its principal partners in the region. terrorists will come back. all this is happening and a part of the world that still matters, energy, proliferation, terrorism, the like. and we ve talked about it here before, you can t compartmentalize it. we may see this as a square on the chessboard, but the rest of the chessboard is looking at it. the whole world is watching and everybody s taking notes and drawing conclusions and essentially saying if the americans can do it there, they can do it here. so every american ally in the world has a folder and they re all saying do we need to rebalance our security portfolio? do we need to defer to our powerful neighbors? do we need to think maybe one day about getting nuclear weapons or doing something? and every american foe is thinking about, hey, if these americans are so allergic to using military force, if they re so ....
Here. this was not a huge deployment of troops. when i commanded the missing in afghanistan, supreme allied commander, we had 150,000 troops there. in iraq at peak we had 185,000 troops. this was 2,000 to 3,000 special forces and it s a mistake like the butch boy pulling his finger out of the dike to let that region just fall into chaos giving iran an open sweep of turf that goes from baghdad through damascus to the mediterranean sea all for pulling out 2,000 troops. i get it on middle east fatigue in the country, but this was leverage. this was a small investment that leveraged tens of thousands of allies, partners, and friends. this is penny wise, pound foolish but worst of all is that strategic knock-on effect. last comment. i ve been thinking a lot about character lately as ownership posed to leadership. ....