2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumTrump lays out plan how to defeat ISIS "quickly", "effectively" and with "total victory".
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/donald-trump-isil-isis-227807Previously, Trump has maintained he has a plan to defeat ISIL (also referred to as ISIS) that he did not want to discuss to avoid tipping his hand to Americas enemies.
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"...but there is a method of defeating them quickly and effectively and having total victory.
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At an April rally in Connecticut, Trump said of his strategy for defeating ISIL, "I have a great plan. It's going to be great. They ask, 'What is it?' Well, I'd rather not say. I'd rather be unpredictable."
I know, you are wondering, what is Trump's plan to defeat ISIS? He finally released it.
I am also going to convene my top generals and give them a simple instruction: They will have 30 days to submit to the Oval Office a plan for defeating ISIS,
I know, right? That's absolutely brillant. Trump's plan is to command other people to come up with a plan.
We are so stupid!
Why has nobody ever thought of that???
And why has the Pentagon never before tried to come up with a plan how to defeat ISIS???
chillfactor
(7,576 posts)to describe the idiocy of t-rump.
sarae
(3,284 posts)me, too.
AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)neeksgeek
(1,214 posts)sellitman
(11,606 posts)His plan is to press a button.
Vinca
(50,273 posts)And what's with veterans? He was promising them ponies yesterday, but at the same time telling them he'd pay off the national debt and cut taxes. Don't these people know if it sounds to good to be true it's probably bullshit?
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)which they think means screwing over POC
duncang
(1,907 posts)Then Dipshit donnie wants convene with top generals then ignores advice since he knows more then them. And use the "bad" advice as the reason it didn't work along with blaming Hillary, Obama, Bush, and everyone else for his failures. He did the same thing on some of his bankruptcies.
C_U_L8R
(45,002 posts)Wonder how he'll catch that pesky roadrunner.
Hey Donnie, wanna buy some Acme stock?
Maeve
(42,282 posts)randome
(34,845 posts)[hr][font color="blue"][center]"If you're bored then you're boring." -Harvey Danger[/center][/font][hr]
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)rurallib
(62,416 posts)which of course he had no fucking clue on and even committed treason to undermine the Paris peace talks.
VOX
(22,976 posts)Thank you for agreeing with me before the fact! And vice versa!
Cheers--
rurallib
(62,416 posts)to me it all goes back to Nixon.
- Johnson should have outed his traitorous ass
- The senate should have gone ahead with the impeachment to show the system would work
- and then that fucking Ford should have let the SOB be taken to court.
Plus of course the southern strategy and the Powell memo. All this laid the groundwork for the Ronnie.
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)then, Obama got elected and actually got bin Laden.
VOX
(22,976 posts)Namely, there was/is NO secret plan. Even Donnie's abnormal-psych-heavy-gauge lies are mere ripoffs.
When reading the linked article, just mentally morph the word "communists" to "Muslims," and "Viet Cong" to ISIS. There, now, you see? Same old same old.
http://m.csmonitor.com/1997/1209/120997.opin.column.1.html
Nixon's 'Secret Plan' That Never Was
By Godfrey Sperling / December 9, 1997
As more and more of the Nixon tapes are brought to light - underscoring what a suspicious, vengeful, plotting turn of mind the man possessed - I'm reminded of presidential candidate Richard Nixon's "secret plan" to get the United States out of the Vietnam War if elected in 1968.
Nixon's 'Secret Plan' That Never Was
By Godfrey Sperling / December 9, 1997
As more and more of the Nixon tapes are brought to light - underscoring what a suspicious, vengeful, plotting turn of mind the man possessed - I'm reminded of presidential candidate Richard Nixon's "secret plan" to get the United States out of the Vietnam War if elected in 1968.
It was at a private session with a half-dozen surprised and skeptical editors in the spring of his campaign that Nixon unveiled his get-out-of-the-war plan. Among these Midwest editors were those who had watched Mr. Nixon closely during the cold-war years. They viewed him as a basically hard-line communist-hater who, as president, could be counted on to take a "you can't trust the communists" line.
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KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)expand the war into to Cambodia and Laos.
grossproffit
(5,591 posts)neeksgeek
(1,214 posts)Who was it... Oh yeah. That guy in Germany about 75 years ago. (Trying hard not to invoke Godwin's Law... failing miserably).
Google "Hitler ignored generals" and read a few links. He made so many mistakes during WWII, apparently because he thought he knew more than his generals. I suspect Trump would closely resemble him, at least in this regard.
KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)Pitting rival bureaucracies against one another in a Spenglerian survival of tge fittest. It will be fun to stick around and watch . . . provided you are a white (Christian) rightwing male.
world wide wally
(21,744 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,173 posts)Then offer a correspondence course for foreigners
It will drive them all looney
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)BootinUp
(47,154 posts)jmowreader
(50,557 posts)You want to make ISIS pay so much for Trump U courses they can't afford food and they starve to death. That plan does have some advantages - but don't you think it'd take too long?
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)to do is watch TV, and he'll be set to command the troops and take ISIS on.
cheapdate
(3,811 posts)central scrutinizer
(11,649 posts)[link:https://m.
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(50,557 posts)Kaleva
(36,307 posts)BYJ439
(27 posts)His plans have absolutely no direction or substance. It's all just a bunch of empty slogans and fake promises. God help us if he wins.