This man. This fool. This idiot. Trump is going back and forth with Iran. He makes at least one post a day where he blathers, boasts, and does nothing. Our servicepeople are tired. At the very least, they need to be changed out with other ships so they can go home for a while after sitting too long in a blockade with no end in sight, because Trump and his people talk, talk, talk. There’s no action. With gratitude for Raw Story:
President Donald Trump’s new comments on the timeline and exit strategy for the Iran war in his explosive interview with NBC’s Kristen Welker are the exact last thing the soldiers fighting for America wanted to hear, retired Army Lieutenant General Mark Hertling told MS NOW’s Alicia Menendez on Monday. He weighed in during a discussion that also included Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA), himself a retired Marine veteran. So far, Moulton argued, Trump’s only objective that he has achieved is that “we’re not talking about Jeffrey Epstein.”
We are talking about Epstein. But we’re small, so it doesn’t mean much. Back on topic, yes, the timeline isn’t much. Trump is trying to force Iran to the negotiation table, and “It Is Not Working.” After all the boasting and threats, he didn’t follow through, so Iran can take their own sweet time negotiating. In the meantime, he is also showing our troops that his word isn’t worth one copper penny. They know it. They want to go home, and instead, they’re just sitting out in the ocean because we are blocking Iran’s blockade. We are also lobbing bombs at them now and then just “because”.
She then turned to Hertling. “In the past, when presidents have taken us into a war, they have, at a minimum, communicated. They have sold that war to the American people. That is not what this president is doing.” She continued that in Trump’s interview with Welker, he “failed to answer the questions every soldier eventually asks: What are we trying to achieve? How will we know when we have achieved it? And when are we done? Without answers to those questions? Deployments begin to feel indefinite.” “If you are a servicemember right now, in day 100 of this war, what are you thinking? How is morale?” she asked.
Morale is probably pretty low. They have no idea when they are going home, and they don’t deserve that, not at all. We could not have had a worse president for a war. His message to the troops and us is nonsense. His message to the world is boasting and bragging when he doesn’t do anything. Anything in greater detail would need to come from our Denis since I only know the military from the outside.
Hertling said that when Welker asked Trump if he’d return our troops home, he said even though it “cost us very little” to keep them there forever, he’d only keep them “until such time as we have a completion.” “From a soldier’s perspective, that is cringeworthy,” said Hertling. “I’ve experienced this in Iraq when we were extended for a three-month tour beyond our 12 months in 2004, and it was very difficult to tell not only our soldiers who were expecting to go home. And in fact, a third of our soldiers were already home, and we had to bring them back when we were extended. This is the same kind of thing our troops will be expecting when they hear these remarks, he said.
And ultimately, he added, there’s not going to be any “completion” in Iran except perhaps “a draw.” “He believes that the military can solve all problems,” said Hertling. “And unfortunately, if that’s all you’re using, it becomes a hammer. But every problem isn’t a nail.”
BOOM. There it is. Every problem isn’t a nail. We’ve hammered Iran, but now it’s not needed, especially after all his threats. Now the hammer is just sitting and waiting. We don’t have much left for Iran except sitting in the ocean. That means there are a lot of people sitting around with nothing to do, I would guess. If I’m wrong, please correct me. I mean it. When will Trump (and Hegseth) bring our people home?
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