Connect the Dots 101

Let’s not chase the bouncy red ball through the playground.

Connect the dots. Trump has been humiliated by a week of bad press and slipping polls with the military.

So he yanks 2,000 troops out of Iraq.

Let’s look back for sec at stumbling out Syria, pelted with potatoes and curses by the Kurdish civilians we left to the tender mercies of Turkey and the Islamic State.

The Russians appreciated our granting them instant influence in the region. They also enjoyed occupying our abandoned camps and bases like Manjib.

“I see a big problem with it. And it shows just how unplanned and half-assed this “withdrawal” is,” said Marine veteran Anderson Bryant, who fought with the SDF as it liberated Manbij from ISIS fighters in 2016.

The gratitude has not extended to respecting the US or the deconfliction protocols put in place with the Russians in December. Four troops were injured last week when a Russian vehicle rammed an American convoy while a Russian helicopter buzzed them from 70 feet overhead.

“To deescalate the situation, the coalition patrol departed the area.”

Pulling troops from Iraq is just the latest iteration of the Vaccine-by-Election-Day scam.

If it’s a good idea now, why wasn’t it a good idea two weeks ago before his disdain for the war dead and wounded caused his poll numbers among that slice of the electorate to drop further?

The press needs to force a military rationale from Trump. How was the decision arrived at?

From a man who relies on late-nite infomercials and the Internet, QAnon and demon sperm quacks….the response should be entertaining. Or would be if the consequences of the decision were not so important.

One wonders what cute stunt President Trump will have had up his sleeve for 9/11?