Pentagon rebukes Trump proposal for more airstrikes

[TomCADem]

Source: Politico

Donald Trump's assertion Monday that more airstrikes are needed in Iraq and Syria to prevent terrorist attacks like the mass shooting in Orlando drew rebukes from the Pentagon and others across the political spectrum who have prosecuted the war on terrorism — including some who warned it could make matters worse.

"We have to really increase the bombings," the presumptive Republican presidential nominee told "Fox and Friends" after he was asked about the Islamic State's claim of credit for the attack by an American Muslim who pledged his allegiance to the group during the massacre that killed 49 people and wounded 53.

Trump also asserted that unnamed military leaders agree with him. "We have generals who think we can win this thing so fast and so strong but we have to be furious for a short period of time and we're not doing it," he said.

But the position that more airstrikes are the answer to the worst mass shooting in American history was not widely supported among those with direct experience


Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/donald-trump-defense-airstrikes-orlando-224289

[ailsagirl]

1. drumpf: "We have to increase the bombings"??? WTF???

But the position that more airstrikes are the answer to the worst mass shooting in American history was not widely supported among those with direct experience.

[63splitwindow]

2. Trump will tell ANY lie and rebuke ANY truth...

to win favor with the kneejerk dumbasses in this country----- you know, his "base".

[L. Coyote]

3. B-grade reality T-V actor attempts to discuss use of military force in part of world he saw on web.

Yeah, that might take more practice than his longest line, "You're fired."













https://twitter.com/GOPMeme

[Shrike47]

4. Demand he name at least 2 of those 'military leaders.'. He won't because they don't exist.

Sure, dropping bombs in the Near East will end domestic terrorism. Makes sense to me.

[dhill926]

5. goddamn idiot...

can he name even one name....thought so...

[jiminvegas]

6. I don't think there is a bomb you could drop on Iraq

That would stop someone in Florida. It would have to be a tremendous, huge bomb and it might cause the loss of some innocent lives.

[TomCADem]

8. But it appeals to the Ted Cruz carpet bomb crowd

Plus it helps Donald Trump sound tough. And, if you say it makes no sense, then you are just being politically correct.

[David__77]

7. Well...

I'm not inclined to agree with Trump. Let the Russians, Assad, the Kurds, and the Iraqi government and allied militias handle the issue in Syria and Iraq. Islamic State and other Sunni Islamist groups can be cleaned up soon enough.