Trump's Surprise Border Mission Is a Politically Motivated Waste of Money: Pentagon Sources

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-administration-mattis-migrant-caravan-border-troops-1198043 full article in link

 

"Speaking to Newsweek on condition of anonymity, as they are not authorized to speak to the media, the four U.S. military sources said..."

This is ridiculous. Come forward and stake your career on it or sod off.

 

Love, the people who want human trafficking to continue.

 

its not just career, they might go to jailed.

 

More anonymous sources. And from Newsweek, a far left fake news rag. Snooze.........

 

Better make it a good reason then.

Newsweek's reputation doesn't mean **** to me, produce the witness.

 

Desperation. Desperation everywhere.

 

oh yea, caravan happen many time before in much bigger scale, remember the stun trump did early this year separate kids from parents. so what make sending troop logical this time around and near mid-term? other than political motivation.

 

oh yea, caravan happen many time before in much bigger scale, remember the stun trump did early this year separate kids from parents. so what make sending troop logical this time around and near mid-term? other than political motivation.

 

Why. So Trump can just replace them with more of his corrupt stooges. Lets try to keep a few sane people in Washinton and the military.

 

I conjecture it is a political motivation.

But it also could have a practical use as well.

If the illegal alien caravan storms the border someone's got to stop them. May as well be the military.

 

Then why would anyone care what some anonymous, possibly fictional, uncorroborated quote says?

 

I can see this one leading to either troops openly disobeying an order or a war crimes tribunsl:

“Anybody throwing stones, rocks, like they did to Mexico and the Mexican military, Mexican police, where they badly hurt police and soldiers of Mexico, we will consider that a firearm,” Trump said. "We’re not going to put up with that. They want to throw rocks at our military, our military fights back. I told them to consider it a rifle.”

Can anyone imagine any sane President ordering troops to fire on unarmed people.

 

Says a lot about the effectivness of our military that they are going to need a couple of months to get ready to repel a few women and children. Or just maybe Trump has some alterior motive for sending them two months in advance.

 

caravan happen many time before in much bigger scale, remember the stun trump did early this year separate kids from parents. so what make sending troop logical this time around and near mid-term? other than political motivation. so how come trump didn't send troop 1st time when it happen early this year, how come now at mid-term.

 

Personally I think they'd be better off tracking illegal aliens with live satellite footage.

 

Bone Spurs will go to any lengths to try to enrage his base at his white nationalist rallies. It doesn't matter that he's using the military in a way that's totally inappropriate and immoral. It doesn't matter that his violent rhetoric just resulted in pipe bombs and the biggest act of violence against Jewish Americans in our history and it doesn't matter that those same murdered people are still being buried. He's a vile disgrace. Its not surprising that military leaders and actively serving honorable men and women won't be listening to this coward. An investigation should be opened to look at this in more detail. Its a total waste of taxpayer money and its exploitation of the power of the office he's infesting.

 

As I said a few posts ago, it is politically motivated. And it's working.

Immigration is a news cycle issue in the election week. Along with fresh wounds from the catastrophe that was the Kavanaugh blunder, and that Trump-Russia seems like a distant memory, the GOP is in a strong position to gain seats in the Senate and guarantee they'll be able to make judicial appointments.

 

They're not unarmed, clearly.

And yes, the perfect way to prevent someone who threatens to throw a rock at you is to tell them you'll throw lead back.

 

Actually Trump is the leader his supporters deserve. If being a racist hate monger didn't work with his base Trump would act differently. His entire life history shows his only real concern is himself.

 

He separated kids from parents who didn't want them, parents who sold them to human traffickers, and separated them from the adult pedophiles in adult jails.

Should we send kids to jail with the parents when their parents get arrested?

It's ok buddy, you guys tried. Even the most teary eyed person you're trying to convince eventually stops crying and engages their brain.

Well, not all of them, but most.

 

Just too stupid to bother with.

 

Like I said: desperation everywhere.

Your first sentence was right though.

Thank you President Trump for being so awesome.

I'd also like to thank Mr. Obama. If he hadn't been so bad at the job, we wouldn't have such a good comparison.

 

Reality is tough to wrestle.

 

Says someone who hides behind them.