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Donald Trump Says He'll Teach Military Expert 'a Couple of Things'
Donald Trump Says He'll Teach Military Expert 'a Couple of Things' About Mosul
Donald Trump went on the offensive against a military expert and former dean of the Army War College, Jeff McCausland, who said the Republican nominee’s comments this weekend about the battle to reclaim Mosul in Iraq show he doesn’t have a firm grasp of military strategy.
“You can tell your military expert that I’ll sit down and I’ll teach him a couple of things,” Trump told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos in an exclusive interview.
On Sunday, Trump tweeted that the ongoing offensive against the ISIS stronghold of Mosul is turning out to be a “total disaster.”
“We gave them months of notice. U.S. is looking so dumb. VOTE TRUMP and WIN AGAIN!” he tweeted.
Trump doubled down on his assertion that the element of surprise is an important military strategy.
“I’ve been hearing about Mosul now for three months. ‘We’re going to attack. We’re going to attack.’ Meaning Iraq’s going to attack but with us. OK? We’re going to attack. Why do they have to talk about it?” he asked Stephanopoulos.
“Element of surprise. One of the reasons they wanted Mosul, they wanted to get ISIS leaders who they thought were, you know, in Mosul. Those people have all left. As soon as they heard they’re going to be attacked, they left,” Trump added. “The resistance is much greater now because they knew about the attack. Why can’t they win first and talk later?”
But according to The New York Times, some military experts disagree with Trump’s claims that the element of surprise is crucial to win the fight against ISIS.
“What this shows is Trump doesn’t know a damn thing about military strategy,” McCausland told the Times.
McCausland replied to Trump's comments to Stephanopoulos in a lengthy statement today, saying, “I can’t wait to sit down with Mr. Trump and hear what he has to teach me about military strategy. I’m happy to compare my record of over 45 years working in national security affairs with his any time.
"When it comes to the question of the Mosul offensive, Mr. Trump doesn’t understand that 99.9 percent of the troops involved are Iraqi," McCausland continued. "I reassert my statement to The New York Times: Mr. Trump doesn’t know a damn thing about military strategy.”
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
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Re: Donald Trump Says He'll Teach Military Expert 'a Couple of Things'
From an individual whose sideline is groping females I'll stick with the generals.
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Re: Donald Trump Says He'll Teach Military Expert 'a Couple of Things'
The dumbass things that come out of his mouth are never ending.
"Do not confuse motion and progress, A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress"
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Re: Donald Trump Says He'll Teach Military Expert 'a Couple of Things'
The arrogance and stupidity that emanates from Drumpf is seemingly a bottomless pit.
The only thing that Donald the draft dodger could possibly teach McCausland is how to fabricate imagined bone spurs in your heel (although he can't remember to this day which heel it was) and use that as an excuse to manufacture a 4F draft status and avoid military service. Although Drumpf's egotistical nature would probably write this off to his superior negotiating skills. What a doofus !
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Re: Donald Trump Says He'll Teach Military Expert 'a Couple of Things'
He should just go there and lead from the front.
That will make everyone much happier.
If you make yourself miserable trying to make others happy that means everyone is miserable.
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