Why is Trump rooting against U.S. troops in Mosul?

[DonViejo]

By Josh Rogin October 24 at 1:28 PM

For months, Donald Trump has been promising to be tough on the Islamic State and has criticized the Obama administration for not taking the fight to the terrorists. Now that the battle of Mosul is underway, Trump has become a cheerleader for the failure of the mission while promoting a conspiracy theory that it’s all about him.

On Sunday, Trump tweeted that the ongoing Iraqi-led offensive against the Islamic State’s stronghold in Mosul was failing:

Donald J. Trump ✔
@realDonaldTrump

The attack on 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!

7:40 PM - 23 Oct 2016
15,043 Retweets 38,053 likes

Monday morning, in an interview with Pat Robertson on “The 700 Club,” Trump doubled down on his prediction that the U.S. and allied coalition in Mosul will fail. He repeated his claim that tens of thousands of Iraqi, Kurdish and allied forces should have done a “sneak attack,” on Mosul, which is obviously impossible given the size of the mission and the nature of the battlefield there.

“You see what’s going on. You see how badly that fight is going,” Trump said. “If you want to go into Mosul, you don’t tell people for four months. Now they are having a hard time and they are really dug in, and the people that we wanted, the leaders of ISIS, are gone.”

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[moonscape]

1. Because it's more important that Trump be right, than that human lives be saved/spared. n/t

[procon]

2. At a rally today, he was babbling nonsense and damned lies about Mosul.

He was making up a complete fabrication that had little resemblance to the actual news reports. He was deliberately trying to make US troops, our leaders, our government, and all their allies in the fight, look like incompetent losers. He was paint ICIS as some sort of genius army that always won.

He wants to be the CIC, but he doesn't respect the military, he doesn't value the efforts of our allies, and he sure doesn't like our military and civilian leaders.

[wishstar]

3. At debate he claimed the military action was being taken to help Hillary in campaign

He had been claiming nothing was being done against Isis so he doesn't like this military offensive as it threatens his narrative and to his demented brain it make sense to hope the effort fails so he can say Obama and Hillary are failures and he is the only one that can succeed there.

[underpants]

4. So,Trojan horse or were they supposed to tip toe across the desert?

He has absolutely no idea what he's talking about.