Commando dies in U.S. raid in Yemen, first military op OK'd by Trump

[NorthCarolinaLiberty]

... but you have two other posts criticising posters, ...more important then zippy's voting past.



I'm sure plenty of the posters on this forum who run around calling everyone cucks, commies, liberals, etc have some neocon votes in their past. Cheers.

Sure, people change, but Zip has never supported liberty. Just ask him why he is here. You'll never get a straight answer.

 

[MallsRGood]

If he had posted the same kind of thread about Obama taking action in Iraq 8 years ago no one would have minded.

...funny how that works.

#MuhTeemz

 

[Origanalist]

...funny how that works.

#MuhTeemz

Yay team red! we're going to do the war on terror right this time.

 

[Zippyjuan]

Yay team red! we're going to do the war on terror right this time.

 

[enhanced_deficit]

Obama isn't potus anymore. This was on Trump's watch and ok'd by Trump. You can't blame Obama here.

As long as he does not return Nobel Peace Price, statue of limitations on his responsibility for increased instability & bloodbath in mideast probably won't kick in so quickly.

He wasn't solely blamed here even if this mission had been planned under his watch and his policies helped create current mess afteraffects of which new administration will be handling and will be judged upon.
Or are you of the view that Obama solely is responsible all loss of life in Iraq , Afghanistan during last years starting with one day after Bush left?

 

[euphemia]

Nine days, people. The man has been president nine days.

 

[GunnyFreedom]

Are you sure this was the US military? We don't have "commandos" in any of our 5 branches. Maybe he is talking about the UK military? Or Indonesia or something like that?

 

[UWDude]

full-tilt red-faced neocon warmonger, splattering the blood of women and children across 4 countries in his first week.

Hyperbole. When he starts toppling governments, then Ill consider him a neocon.

 

[timosman]

lol triggered trumpies. The silly attempts to divert attention from the FACT that trump has come out of the gate as a full-tilt red-faced neocon warmonger, splattering the blood of women and children across 4 countries in his first week.

I guess as long as he keeps short brown people from crossing the border we're on track.

Anybody notice how the MSM is all about the immigration shenanigans and burying the war stories?

I nominate this post for an extra reward. Have your employer contact me if they need to verify my neg rep.

 

[ThePaleoLibertarian]

The idea that Trump would disengage from American dirty wars was always a fantasy. Indeed, no President could do it, including President Paul.

The real of realpolitik within libertarianism rears its head yet again.

 

[undergroundrr]

I nominate this post for an extra reward. Have your employer contact me if they need to verify my neg rep.

I cherish your -rep.

Welcome to the new RPF - don't dare call out Dear Orange Leader and his grasps for empire.

 

[XNavyNuke]

The idea that Trump would disengage from American dirty wars was always a fantasy. Indeed, no President could do it, including President Paul.

Those believing such a fantasy were not watching Trumps lips move. He has said from the beginning of his campaign that he was going to be more aggressive dealing with terrorists. I suppose it's possible some turnip brains might have thought he meant that he would make a deal to set-up businesses, hire all the terrorist in the sandbox, and make widgets.

As to the NYT reporter's assertion that "American forces have not conducted any special operations in Yemen since December 2014", I'm unimpressed by their inability to spend two minutes going through CENTCOM's press release page. But hey, they got their narrative to push and I assume their readership is too stoopid to know how to find information on their own.

XNN

 

[juleswin]

The idea that Trump would disengage from American dirty wars globalist economic alliance was always a fantasy. Indeed, no President could do it, including President Paul.

The real of realpolitik within libertarianism rears its head yet again.

If Trump can't disengage in a place as inconsequential as Yemen, how can we expect him to go against to economic battle with the globalists? He won by saying that we should follow an America first policy, we should stop regime change policies etc and you are coming to tell me that he cannot do those things which won him the election.

Next thing we would hear is that Trump cannot change the US immigration and refugee policy.

 

[XNavyNuke]

Local newspaper writes up Chief Owens.
http://www.pjstar.com/news/20170130/navy-seal-who-died-in-yemen-raid-was-from-peoria

XNN

 

[TheTexan]

The U.S. military said 14 militants died in the attack on a powerful al Qaeda branch that has been a frequent target of U.S. drone strikes. Medics at the scene, however, said around 30 people, including 10 women and children, were killed.

At least we got the terrorists tho

 

[anaconda]

Anti-war left is showing up in impressive numbers out of sudden.

It's 2006 all over again.

 

[undergroundrr]

Do you think the navy put this together in one week? It takes quite a bit longer to plan something like this. It was planned under your candidate Obama.

Turns out that was true but Obama admin decided not to act on it:

Trump's disastrous first military strike had previously been rejected by Obama
February 1, 2017

Saturday's Navy SEAL raid in Yemen — which resulted in the death of an 8-year-old American girl and a U.S. naval officer — had previously been rejected by former President Barack Obama, The Guardian reports. President Trump approved of the raid in his first military strike as commander-in-chief:

[Colonel John] Thomas said he did not know why the prior administration did not authorize the operation, but said the Obama administration had effectively exercised a "pocket veto" over it.

A former official said the operation had been reviewed several times, but the underlying intelligence was not judged strong enough to justify the risks, and the case was left to the incoming Trump administration to make its own judgment. [The Guardian]

Yemeni officials say at least 10 women and children were also killed, including the 8-year-old daughter of U.S.-born Anwar al-Awlaki, a senior leader of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula who was himself slain a 2011 drone strike. Read more about how things went wrong here. Jeva Lange

http://theweek.com/speedreads/67744...tary-strike-previously-been-rejected-by-obama

 

[Zippyjuan]

Turns out that was true but Obama admin decided not to act on it:



http://theweek.com/speedreads/67744...tary-strike-previously-been-rejected-by-obama

Trump less concerned about "collateral damages". That makes him more dangerous.

 

[NorthCarolinaLiberty]

Trump less concerned about "collateral damages". That makes him more dangerous.

You mean like Ron Paul being dangerous to your Jewish brethren?

 

[nikcers]

You mean like Ron Paul being dangerous to your Jewish brethren?

Donald Trump - "Ron Paul has Zero chance of getting elected. He Doesn't Even Think In Terms Of Israel"
Ron Paul says Iran should have nuclear weapons are can have nuclear weapons and doesn't even think in terms of Israel. http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-ron-paul-huntsman-today-2011-12