Trump pulling troops out of the middle east. No matter your political affiliation, surely thats a positive move?

Personally, I think we should pull our troops and our [b]money[/b], from any country that has citizenry shouting, "Death To America".

Common sense would say so but it's Trump. No matter what he does it will be criticized.

I don't think so, really, at least the way its being done, with the protest of the Secretary of Defense and with no signs of actual contemplation of the consequences for the U.S. and her allies.

Trump might well be making the right move, but I've never been convinced that he's smarter than the generals or that his gut level feelings are a substitute for an actual studied analysis of a situation with actual factual briefings by professionals who've made their careers out of this kind of thing. This doesn't even look like a scenario where he considered their advice and looked at things and then came to his own decision. It smells more like he just got petulant and said "f-ck it, I need to do something now, and this looks good."

As a retired military soldier ( 27 years of service and 10 major surgeries because of it ) that had to go and sit around the world including the middle east where we are hated because we try to install governments friendly to our Government. It just has not worked. I backed fighting ISIS in there back yard 100%, But there has to be a point where the people of the lands we are stationed in stand up and fight for themselves!

In the initial removal of the Talban in Afghanistan we did it with a few groups of special forces very successfully! The Afghan leaders and citizens welcomed and loved us, and warned us not to be become the invader and to maintain our liberator assistor role! Then We invaded the country because of these Washington D.C. advisors said we need to install an American friendly government. That is when we became the invaders we were warned not to become, and became hated further in the middle east and ruined our Afghanistan friendly assistor role.

Syria was a knee jerk reaction to the world's as well as the UN's so what are you going to say and do about this type situation. If Russia did not stand behind the Syrian dictator we would of invaded the country too, and gotten bogged down for countless years trying to install an a pro American Government there too. We are involved militarily in several small African countries now too trying the same dang thing.

When is there enough American blood and money spent to realize we can not make the world like us by force? !!! They have to stand up and fight for what they want their countries to be as it's own citizens; then we cantry and make friends from that point forward. If they want to fight train and arm them that is all~!

No. While it can be argued that we never needed a presence in the Middle East, the fact is we're there now. We have guaranteed support to our allies and we have created a defense against those who would do harm.

In leaving suddenly, we create a vacuum. We've done this over and over in the world, and each time it has been a spectacular failure. In the space of that vacuum, the most powerful and ruthless forces will gain control. We will end up back over there fighting those forces, just as we have for decades.

well yes and no. Yes in the fact that the troops can come home and see familys, etc. but no in the fact that it might not actually be good depending in the situation. i dont watch the news alot becuase its always the same bull that the media wants to tell us. but iknow the US has done this oarticarular maneuever a few times and then the next president comes and office and sends troops back in.

If pulling half the troops from Afghanistan triples the danger to those remaining, I could not see that as a positive move.

Sometimes it's prudent to admit things didn't go your way and bail. Spinning it as a victory is a bit much though.

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