I was kind of happy when McMaster replaced Flynn three weeks into the Trump administration. Now, I’m not so sure. McMaster wants between 10,000 and 50,000 US boots on the ground in Syria for regime change in Syria. There is no way in hell I would support this, no matter who is in charge. Some reports even have McMaster asking for 150,000 US ground troops in Syria, using the ISIS excuse instead of the regime change in Syria. McMaster is starting to remind me of John McCain and Lindsey Graham.
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The president wants to defeat ISIS, he wants to win, what he needs is a U.S.-led conventional coalition ground force that can take Raqqa and clean out the Euphrates River Valley of ISIS all the way to the Iraq border,” Keane said. “Handwringing about U.S. ground troops in Syria was a fetish of the Obama administration. Time to look honestly at a winning military strategy.”
White House and administration officials familiar with the current debate tell me there is no consensus on how many troops to send to Syria and Iraq. Two sources told me one plan would envision sending up to 50,000 troops. Blogger and conspiracy theorist Mike Cernovich wrote on April 9 that McMaster wanted 150,000 ground troops for Syria, but U.S. officials I spoke with said that number was wildly inflated and no such plan has been under consideration.
If any of these end off happening, I’m completely off the Trump Train. We don’t want another George W. Bush disaster. I will never support a Democrat, I’ll just vote third third party.