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DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
Wed Sep 7, 2016, 07:32 AM Sep 2016

Trump lays out plan how to defeat ISIS "quickly", "effectively" and with "total victory".

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/donald-trump-isil-isis-227807

Previously, 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 America’s 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???
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Trump lays out plan how to defeat ISIS "quickly", "effectively" and with "total victory". (Original Post) DetlefK Sep 2016 OP
I have run out of adjectives... chillfactor Sep 2016 #1
Well said! sarae Sep 2016 #26
Me three. It is just....ugh. AgadorSparticus Sep 2016 #32
He wants to nuke somebody. n/t neeksgeek Sep 2016 #2
He is readying his finger sellitman Sep 2016 #3
The man is such a fool. I don't understand the mind set of people voting for him. Vinca Sep 2016 #4
They are reading between the racist lines- that he will cut social services bettyellen Sep 2016 #18
Dipshit donnie has a great plan to defeat isis but won't say. Maybe because it was totally stupid? duncang Sep 2016 #5
Donald J Trump, Genius C_U_L8R Sep 2016 #6
But...but..he said he understood ISIS BETTER than the generals!!!! Maeve Sep 2016 #7
And if they don't, he'll fire all the top generals? randome Sep 2016 #8
require all twitter accounts be tied to a bank account, 10ct a tweet & even trump would be gone. Sunlei Sep 2016 #9
reminds me so much of Nixon's "Ihave a plan to end Vietnam" rurallib Sep 2016 #10
We ran the Nixon "secret plan" bit simultaneously. VOX Sep 2016 #12
while most people point to the so-called "Reagan Revolution" as the start of America downhill rurallib Sep 2016 #23
McCain had a secret plan to catch bin Laden NewJeffCT Sep 2016 #15
Trump's "secret plan" to snuff ISIS is just like Nixon's "secret plan" of 1968: VOX Sep 2016 #11
Nixon's 'secret plan' to get out of Viwtnam was . . . to KingCharlemagne Sep 2016 #28
But, he said “I know more about ISIS than the generals do, believe me.'' grossproffit Sep 2016 #13
This kind of quote reminds me of somebody... neeksgeek Sep 2016 #21
All indications are that he will govern exactly as his forbear did, by KingCharlemagne Sep 2016 #29
I thought his plan was to nuke ISiS cells in Europe world wide wally Sep 2016 #14
Enroll the Generals in Trump University so they can plan their retirement gigs bucolic_frolic Sep 2016 #16
Orange fuckwit. geardaddy Sep 2016 #17
He should open up Trump U in Iraq and Syria. nt BootinUp Sep 2016 #19
Ah ha. I get it now. jmowreader Sep 2016 #30
All he has Jamaal510 Sep 2016 #20
Pure huckster. cheapdate Sep 2016 #22
Here's the plan central scrutinizer Sep 2016 #24
Are you going to be the one to cut up the dead horse in the Oval Office? jmowreader Sep 2016 #31
Do-able if one uses nukes to turn the region into a radioactive wasteland Kaleva Sep 2016 #25
What a joke Drumpf is BYJ439 Sep 2016 #27

Vinca

(50,273 posts)
4. The man is such a fool. I don't understand the mind set of people voting for him.
Wed Sep 7, 2016, 07:58 AM
Sep 2016

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)
18. They are reading between the racist lines- that he will cut social services
Wed Sep 7, 2016, 09:57 AM
Sep 2016

which they think means screwing over POC

duncang

(1,907 posts)
5. Dipshit donnie has a great plan to defeat isis but won't say. Maybe because it was totally stupid?
Wed Sep 7, 2016, 08:12 AM
Sep 2016

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)
6. Donald J Trump, Genius
Wed Sep 7, 2016, 08:16 AM
Sep 2016

Wonder how he'll catch that pesky roadrunner.
Hey Donnie, wanna buy some Acme stock?

 

randome

(34,845 posts)
8. And if they don't, he'll fire all the top generals?
Wed Sep 7, 2016, 08:41 AM
Sep 2016

[hr][font color="blue"][center]"If you're bored then you're boring." -Harvey Danger[/center][/font][hr]

rurallib

(62,416 posts)
10. reminds me so much of Nixon's "Ihave a plan to end Vietnam"
Wed Sep 7, 2016, 09:31 AM
Sep 2016

which of course he had no fucking clue on and even committed treason to undermine the Paris peace talks.

VOX

(22,976 posts)
12. We ran the Nixon "secret plan" bit simultaneously.
Wed Sep 7, 2016, 09:35 AM
Sep 2016

Thank you for agreeing with me before the fact! And vice versa!

Cheers--

rurallib

(62,416 posts)
23. while most people point to the so-called "Reagan Revolution" as the start of America downhill
Wed Sep 7, 2016, 01:11 PM
Sep 2016

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.

VOX

(22,976 posts)
11. Trump's "secret plan" to snuff ISIS is just like Nixon's "secret plan" of 1968:
Wed Sep 7, 2016, 09:31 AM
Sep 2016

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.

<snip>

 

KingCharlemagne

(7,908 posts)
28. Nixon's 'secret plan' to get out of Viwtnam was . . . to
Wed Sep 7, 2016, 08:43 PM
Sep 2016

expand the war into to Cambodia and Laos.

neeksgeek

(1,214 posts)
21. This kind of quote reminds me of somebody...
Wed Sep 7, 2016, 12:56 PM
Sep 2016

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)
29. All indications are that he will govern exactly as his forbear did, by
Wed Sep 7, 2016, 08:48 PM
Sep 2016

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.

bucolic_frolic

(43,173 posts)
16. Enroll the Generals in Trump University so they can plan their retirement gigs
Wed Sep 7, 2016, 09:53 AM
Sep 2016

Then offer a correspondence course for foreigners

It will drive them all looney

jmowreader

(50,557 posts)
30. Ah ha. I get it now.
Wed Sep 7, 2016, 09:27 PM
Sep 2016

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?

 

BYJ439

(27 posts)
27. What a joke Drumpf is
Wed Sep 7, 2016, 08:19 PM
Sep 2016

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.

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