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What Happened in Niger?
What we know and don't know about the deadly Niger attack
Washington (CNN)Defense Secretary James Mattis said on Thursday that the "US military does not leave its troops behind" but did not provide additional details into why the body of Sgt. La David Johnson was recovered nearly 48 hours after his 12-member team was ambushed by 50 ISIS fighters in Niger.
"The US military does not leave its troops behind and I would just ask that you not question the actions of the troops who were caught in the firefight and question whether or not they did everything they could in order to bring everyone out at once," he told reporters.
Three senior US officials told CNN on Wednesday that Mattis wants answers regarding the ambush in Niger two weeks ago.
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: What Happened in Niger?
Not only did is take an extraordinarily long time for Trump to say anything about the 4 fallen soldiers (meanwhile he gleefully tweets about the NFL and all other BS), but we are now finding out that there is still to be a precise account of exactly what happened. Something appears to be totally not quite right about what he are hearning/not hearing.
"Do not confuse motion and progress, A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress"