Wapo: Under Trump, gains against ISIS have dramatically accelerated

[Matty]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/under-trump-gains-against-isis-have-dramatically-accelerated/2017/08/04/8ad29d40-7958-11e7-8f39-eeb7d3a2d304_story.html?utm_term=.4ec69cc4dc48

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[Dr. Arch]

The generals credit Obama not Trump

[Beet]

AMAZON WASHINGTON POST FAKE NE--- oh wait, hold the presses! this one's real.

[Adam Griffin]

ISIS didn't really cracking until last year anyway, plus the Syrian Civil War isn't what it used to be.

[AtorBoltox]

Trump has not altered Obamas strategy one jot

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

Any claims about Trump's awesomeness regarding ISIS possess about the same degree of truth as his bragging about the economy. He inherited situations heading in the right direction and hasn't had time to run them off the rails yet.

Watching the cultists explain how Trump has nothing to do with the economy or foreign policy when they go south on him will be amusing.

[TheSaint250]

The generals credit Obama not Trump

The entire article is literally about changes that the WH made giving generals power. Nothing in there about "Obama Admin's policies did this, not Trump Admin's."

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But I like how this is going.  It's good that more power is being delegated to the generals.  He trusts them.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

But I like how this is going.  It's good that more power is being delegated to the generals.  He trusts them.

More like he doesn't want to bothered with details.

[JA]

Donald Trump's campaign against Isis results in nearly as many civilian deaths as during Obama's entire administration

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And thus the next generation of Islamic extrists are being born among the ashes and rotting bodies of Syria and Iraq (and Yemen).

[Devout Centrist]

Gotta accentuate the positives somehow

[ProudModerate2]

But I like how this is going.  It's good that more power is being delegated to the generals.  He trusts them.

More like he doesn't want to bothered with details.

I don't understand why you say "he trusts them."
trump knows more than all the generals ... remember ? (His words, not mine.)
They are secondary, he knows best, he knows everything, he looks at the maps and he is the only one who decides on the grand strategy.
The generals know nothing.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

Donald Trump's campaign against Isis results in nearly as many civilian deaths as during Obama's entire administration

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And thus the next generation of Islamic extrists are being born among the ashes and rotting bodies of Syria and Iraq (and Yemen).

Excellent point. Trump is very fond of taking credit for things, and his cultists are fond of giving him credit for things.

We need to make certain that Trump gets proper credit for every westerner who dies at the hands of Islamic extremists for the next half century.

[TheSaint250]

But I like how this is going.  It's good that more power is being delegated to the generals.  He trusts them.

More like he doesn't want to bothered with details.

I don't understand why you say "he trusts them."
trump knows more than all the generals ... remember ? (His words, not mine.)
They are secondary, he knows best, he knows everything, he looks at the maps and he is the only one who decides on the grand strategy.
The generals know nothing.

That must be why he let them run the show now.

Anyway that comment was both said horribly by trump and horribly taken out of context. He was trying to make a point that we are sharing our strategies so openly that even a common citizen could know what the generals know. Of course he was exaggerating and of course it was a stupid comment.

As shown by this article, he is trusting he generals to eliminate ISIS, which is good.

[TheSaint250]

The generals credit Obama not Trump

The entire article is literally about changes that the WH made giving generals power. Nothing in there about "Obama Admin's policies did this, not Trump Admin's."

Isis were defeated in Mosul because of Barack Obama's training strategies, says Pentagon official

Copycat: Who Invented Trump’s ISIS Plan? Obama. Trump ordered up a whole new plan to beat ISIS. Instead he got a rough sketch that strongly resembles what was drawn up under Obama.

Trump's too lazy to come up with a plan for ISIS

So Obama delegated power to his generals as trump did? I don't believe so. I'm referring to this article.

[TheSaint250]

But I like how this is going.  It's good that more power is being delegated to the generals.  He trusts them.

More like he doesn't want to bothered with details.

I don't understand why you say "he trusts them."
trump knows more than all the generals ... remember ? (His words, not mine.)
They are secondary, he knows best, he knows everything, he looks at the maps and he is the only one who decides on the grand strategy.
The generals know nothing.

That must be why he let them run the show now.

Anyway that comment was both said horribly by trump and horribly taken out of context. He was trying to make a point that we are sharing our strategies so openly that even a common citizen could know what the generals know. Of course he was exaggerating and of course it was a stupid comment.

As shown by this article, he is trusting he generals to eliminate ISIS, which is good.

No he wasnt...Trump has so far said hes done more than any other president except FDR and that hes been more presidential than any other president than Lincoln and compares his verbal diarrhea speeches to that of Ronald Reagan.

He's a egomaniac who thinks hes the smartest person in the room and a con artist pulling the wool of the rubes in his base. He deserves credit for nothing other than managing to control himself around women.

The generals credit Obama not Trump

The entire article is literally about changes that the WH made giving generals power. Nothing in there about "Obama Admin's policies did this, not Trump Admin's."

Isis were defeated in Mosul because of Barack Obama's training strategies, says Pentagon official

Copycat: Who Invented Trump’s ISIS Plan? Obama. Trump ordered up a whole new plan to beat ISIS. Instead he got a rough sketch that strongly resembles what was drawn up under Obama.

Trump's too lazy to come up with a plan for ISIS

So Obama delegated power to his generals as trump did? I don't believe so. I'm referring to this article.

This comment really dosent make sense. Trump delegates out of sheer laziness. He sends Pence to visit world leaders. He sends Nikki to the UN because he cant be bothered to make a call. He left his health bill solely to Reince Preibus. And instead of calling up the FBI about leaks...he rage tweets when a simple phone call could get him the answer he's looking for

There was just a report yesterday that Trump slammed and blamed the generals saying they were losing Afghanistan. Trump hasnt read a single briefing or attended a single meeting on Afghanistan because his attention span is so short. He dosent even read his bullet point one page memos anymore.

All Trump wants to do is golf, watch TV, and tweet. Just a month ago...all the Trump supporters on here were crowing about the upcoming NAFTA rewrite. Trump had a media event, he released a wish list about how to fix NAFTA and that was the end of it. NAFTA has not been renegotiated nor is anyone trying to.

The only thing thus far you could credit him for is Gorsuch...other than that, the tub of lard is obviously growing bored with the job and wants nothing to do with it other than to get his daily narcissistic supply from the public.

Ok. Not disagreeing. If you've read my recent posts I've said so much that he pretty much has done nothing. Unless he cleans up his act and takes more initiative I will be voting for his primary opponent in 2020.

Is it laziness that he is deferring to the generals? Probably. But am I upset that the generals are taking control? Of course not.

[Badger]

But I like how this is going.  It's good that more power is being delegated to the generals.  He trusts them.

More like he doesn't want to bothered with details.

I don't understand why you say "he trusts them."
trump knows more than all the generals ... remember ? (His words, not mine.)
They are secondary, he knows best, he knows everything, he looks at the maps and he is the only one who decides on the grand strategy.
The generals know nothing.

That must be why he let them run the show now.

Anyway that comment was both said horribly by trump and horribly taken out of context. He was trying to make a point that we are sharing our strategies so openly that even a common citizen could know what the generals know. Of course he was exaggerating and of course it was a stupid comment.

As shown by this article, he is trusting he generals to eliminate ISIS, which is good.

No he wasnt...Trump has so far said hes done more than any other president except FDR and that hes been more presidential than any other president than Lincoln and compares his verbal diarrhea speeches to that of Ronald Reagan.

He's a egomaniac who thinks hes the smartest person in the room and a con artist pulling the wool of the rubes in his base. He deserves credit for nothing other than managing to control himself around women.

The generals credit Obama not Trump

The entire article is literally about changes that the WH made giving generals power. Nothing in there about "Obama Admin's policies did this, not Trump Admin's."

Isis were defeated in Mosul because of Barack Obama's training strategies, says Pentagon official

Copycat: Who Invented Trump’s ISIS Plan? Obama. Trump ordered up a whole new plan to beat ISIS. Instead he got a rough sketch that strongly resembles what was drawn up under Obama.

Trump's too lazy to come up with a plan for ISIS

So Obama delegated power to his generals as trump did? I don't believe so. I'm referring to this article.

This comment really dosent make sense. Trump delegates out of sheer laziness. He sends Pence to visit world leaders. He sends Nikki to the UN because he cant be bothered to make a call. He left his health bill solely to Reince Preibus. And instead of calling up the FBI about leaks...he rage tweets when a simple phone call could get him the answer he's looking for

There was just a report yesterday that Trump slammed and blamed the generals saying they were losing Afghanistan. Trump hasnt read a single briefing or attended a single meeting on Afghanistan because his attention span is so short. He dosent even read his bullet point one page memos anymore.

All Trump wants to do is golf, watch TV, and tweet. Just a month ago...all the Trump supporters on here were crowing about the upcoming NAFTA rewrite. Trump had a media event, he released a wish list about how to fix NAFTA and that was the end of it. NAFTA has not been renegotiated nor is anyone trying to.

The only thing thus far you could credit him for is Gorsuch...other than that, the tub of lard is obviously growing bored with the job and wants nothing to do with it other than to get his daily narcissistic supply from the public.

Ok. Not disagreeing. If you've read my recent posts I've said so much that he pretty much has done nothing. Unless he cleans up his act and takes more initiative I will be voting for his primary opponent in 2020.

Is it laziness that he is deferring to the generals? Probably. But am I upset that the generals are taking control? Of course not.

Saint, it's crystal clear from every story about foreign policy decisions coming out of the White House,  as well as FROM TRUMP'S OWN MOUTH that he genuinely, sincerely believes he knows more than the generals and is more interested in telling them what he thinks should be done (despite having zero knowledge or experience) rather than listening and absorbing counsel.

This is from a TRUMP STATE DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN! Consider the source. What's he going to say? "President Trump has personally directed battlefield planning down to the platoon level for every step of this engagement"? (Well, actually they might, but they're not there QUITE yet).

C'mon man. Obama was smart enough to give the generals leeway to do what they needed. The best that can be realistically said of Trump is he hasn't cared enough to try fu#%ing things up by changing course.