Legal Insurrection: WaPo’s Ignatius: Fighters in Syria cheer at mention of Trump name
“One Syrian Kurdish commander used a vulgar term, in Spanish it would be cojones, to describe what President Trump has got and why they like him.”
On a morning when you would have expected the Morning Joe panel to be all about Trump’s CNN wrestling tweet, a Washington Post editor/columnist painted an amazingly positive portrait of the president’s actions in Syria.
WaPo’s David Ignatius has just returned from a week in Syria. He was almost apologetic in prefacing his remarks: “I’m going to say something that in some ways is sympathetic to Trump.”
He then proceeded to say that he was told by top US commanders that “the most daring and decisive” attack in the battle of Raqqa would not have happened if it hadn’t been for President Trump’s decision to delegate authority to commanders in the field.
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WNU Editor: It is still too early to give credit to anyone in this war .... but the speed at which the Islamic State has collapsed in the past 2 months has surprised a lot of people .... this blogger included. If this collapse continues the credit should belong to US Secretary of Defense Mattis who pushed this strategy .... U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis: Military Using 'Annihilation Tactics' Against The Islamic State (May 29, 2017), and this strategy .... Pentagon Is Now Taking The Lead On Decisions That Were Once Made By The White House Under President Obama (April 15, 2017).
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