Four-Star General Blasts Trump Over Threat To 'Wipe Out' Afghanistan

[babylonsister]

Four-Star General Blasts Trump Over Threat To ‘Wipe Out’ Afghanistan
Oliver Willis July 22, 2019


Retired four-star Gen. Barry McCaffrey slammed Trump on Monday for casually claiming he has a “plan” to end the war in Afghanistan that involved killing “millions” of people.

Trump discussed the bloody scenarios as he met with Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan at the White House.

“We could do a number the likes of which they’ve never seen before and win it very quickly,” Trump said. “I don’t want to do that because you’re talking about millions of people, and I don’t want to do that.”

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“Troubling listening to Trump Oval Office news conference with Pakistani PM,” McCaffrey responded. “He baldly states that we have analyzed and considered using nuclear weapons to kill millions of people in Afghanistan as a solution to the conflict. WHAT IS TRUMP THINKING?”

McCaffrey served over 30 years in the military and has been awarded three Purple Hearts, two Silver Stars, and two Distinguished Service Crosses.

He has repeatedly criticized Trump for poor decision-making on national security issues.

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https://www.nationalmemo.com/four-star-general-blasts-trump-over-threat-to-wipe-out-afghanistan/

[deminks]

1. 'Kill 'em all and let God sort 'em out' has become Amerikan foreign and domestic goober policy.

And you thought W's pre-emptive strike policy was bad.

[Wounded Bear]

14. That phrase has roots in Christian history...

When I began my studies of medieval history, I recall (at one point) coming across the original medieval version of the phrase in a thirteenth-century source by the German monk Caesarius of Heisterbach. In describing events that took place at the Battle of Béziers in 1209, a part of the broader so-called Albigensian Crusade, Caesarius cited a Catholic cleric named Arnaud Amaury as the originator of the phrase. At one point during the battle, when the crusaders were supposedly hard pressed to distinguish the Catholics from the Cathars at Béziers, Caesarius records Amaury as commanding Catholic forces to (translated from the original Latin) “Kill them all, God will know his own.”

https://apholt.com/2014/12/01/the-medieval-origins-of-a-modern-phrase-killem-all-let-god-sortem-out/

[KPN]

15. THIS. My spouse is fond of saying that religion is one of the few sources of all evil -- exactly

for the reason implied by this notion which is essentially God is on our side.

[Anon-C]

26. Good stuff, Maynard!

[Wounded Bear]

31. Who's Maynard?

[Anon-C]

32. Maynard!

[NewJeffCT]

2. Big mistake from McCaffrey

he asks "WHAT IS TRUMP THINKING?"

pretty sure Donny is NOT thinking. Not thinking at all. Just pulling BS out of his ass.

[malaise]

3. General Bone Spurs knows effin' nothing about

effin' anything

[Ohiogal]

4. Oh no, it's "troubling"!!!!

Them's fightin' words!!!!

UUGGHH

[Ilsa]

5. Trump states an unthinkable act of

barbarism, "the likes of which they've never seen before," as if the rest of the world doesn't already know that we and many other nations have nukes.

What an ugly, dispicable man.

[Tanuki]

19. And it's pretty obvious that he has actually floated this as an option

but has been talked out of it by his advisors. What kind of monster would even think of doing such a thing?

[Ilsa]

21. Joe Scar. reminded us this morning that in 2016 some

Military or national security experts were briefing IQ45, and in less than one hour, he asked three times, "If we have nukes, why can't we use them?"

[Moostache]

28. I am 100% certain that Trump WANTS to detonate a nuke...

He is the literal embodiment of Greg Stillson from Stephen King's "The Dead Zone"...a con-man president with a shady past and delusions of grandeur to go alongside a temperament better suited for a rabid dog and a preoccupation with launching nuclear weapons.

I can only hope that someone in the military chain of command is going to defy orders and stop it when he gives the order to launch, because it seems more likely as time goes on...

[durablend]

6. Angry tweet incoming any second

"FAILED LIBERAL GENERAL"

[brewens]

7. Exactly what I though when I saw the words "quickly" and "millions of people". That could

only mean nukes. No way we could win anything there quickly with troops and conventional weapons. It's been tried before and never worked there.

[Javaman]

8. the mad king...

[atreides1]

9. Another Stephen Miller solution?

Is it really that far fetched, that Miller would suggest the elimination of a country of followers of Islam...especially one that is as poor and unstable as Afghanistan?

Who in the Islamic world would miss the Taliban? Certainly not the Pakistanis...the areas on the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan have been a thorn in the side of the Pakistani government since 9/11!

I would guess that many of their former "allies" would prefer it...if the Taliban just disappeared and ceased to exist!

[KPN]

17. Of course not. How often have I heard conservatives say "we should just nuke them all"

over the years since 9/11? More than a few.

[Aristus]

10. When a soft, weak rich boy gets into a dick-measuring contest with a general,

I won't take any action in bets for his victory...

[Perseus]

11. One of his biggest flaws, he lacks an understanding of consequences

That is why this creature is so dangerous, he doesn't have the capacity to analyze, to figure out there actions have consequences.

[KPN]

20. I think he has an idea of potential consequences, he just doesn't think those consequences will

apply to him and his family personally. He doesn't give a fuck about most people, including most Americans, including whether most Americans survive the consequences. He sees it as just more for him, more "winning". In his mind, he's the greatest!

[B Stieg]

12. They showed tRump a MOAB...

and now he thinks he can get away with non-nuke annihilation...

(https://www.vox.com/world/2019/7/22/20704248/trump-afghanistan-10-days-war)

How does this not end badly?

[Hermit-The-Prog]

13. Li'l Donnie No-dick has always wanted to play with nukes

[gratuitous]

16. I can hear Trump filling out his Nobel Prize nomination form now

"I could have nuked 10 million so-called people, but I didn't. Peace Prize now! No collusion! No obstruction!"

[KentuckyWoman]

18. Retired General

There lies the trouble. Military command has lost too many leaders with their head in the right place.

Hopefully someone at the Pentagon can keep this maniac in check.

[KPN]

22. I don't trust the military one iota. I talked with an Air Force officer who I was

introduced to and spent several nights with while visiting an old friend a couple years ago. We eventually found our way to talking politics. I'll summarize by just saying it was scary.

[kacekwl]

23. I could kill millions of people on

5th ave. And still not lose any supporters.

[SWBTATTReg]

24. Just another of the many reasons not to re-elect this scumbag ... dangerous, ill informed, sick, ...

a pathological liar and rip off artist...

[Enoki33]

25. More confirmation of the very real monster we are dealing with.

[jayfish]

27. Meh.

The a usual suspect that no one gives two shits about. I would have been more surprised if McCaffrey said nothing.

ON EDIT: I didn't need Barry McCaffrey to tell me something I figured out as I listened to Trump fellate the Pakistani PM.

[Yavin4]

29. Where's Jaime Lannister when you need him? n/t

[moondust]

30. Whom is Dumpy trying to impress/intimidate?

The whole world?

Real leaders don't talk like this. Desperate little tyrants will grasp at anything to try to elevate themselves. "My bombs are bigger than your bombs, so there! And your mom wears combat boots!"