Defense One: Outgoing Syria Envoy Admits Hiding US Troop Numbers; Praises Trump’s Mideast RecordAsked about what Milley said re: 500-600 troops in Syria.
— Alex Ward (@AlexWardVox) November 13, 2020
Jeffrey: “That is exactly the range that I heard but you also have a small detachment - very small at at Tanf-but as far as I know everything would not have been much more than Milley said. Also troops went in and out.”
‘We were always playing shell games,’ says Amb. Jim Jeffrey, who also gives advice to President-elect Biden.
Four years after signing the now-infamous “Never Trump” letter condemning then-presidential candidate Donald Trump as a danger to America, retiring diplomat Jim Jeffrey is recommending that the incoming Biden administration stick with Trump’s foreign policy in the Middle East.
But even as he praises the president’s support of what he describes as a successful “realpolitik” approach to the region, he acknowledges that his team routinely misled senior leaders about troop levels in Syria.
“We were always playing shell games to not make clear to our leadership how many troops we had there,” Jeffrey said in an interview. The actual number of troops in northeast Syria is “a lot more than” the roughly two hundred troops Trump initially agreed to leave there in 2019.
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Update #1: Top US official admits lying to Trump on American troop levels in Syria (Task & Purpose)
Update #2: Trump’s anti-ISIS envoy admits he MISLED president about US troop numbers in Syria to keep them there (RT)
WNU Editor: Here is an easy prediction. What retiring diplomat Jim Jeffrey is admitting to is probably just the tip of the iceberg. We are probably going to hear even more stories in the coming months on how unelected bureaucrats sabotaged and/or disrupted President Trump's foreign policy initiatives. Especially in conflict zones like Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere. No wonder the U.S. finds itself in all of these forever wars. How can any President plan and successfully execute a strategy when their own foreign representatives and bureaucracy lie to them.
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I was never given a chance to dislike or hate Trump. He comes from New York City. There's a reason right there to dislike him. He's richer than me. In the 80's and 90's other celebrities loved him. He has a hyperbolic speaking style and a big ego.
If a Bush got the results that Trump did without Trump's hyperbolic speaking style, I would have (past tense) preferred a Bush.
But I never got a chance to dislike Trump. All sort of liars and thieves piled on from the word go and before the word go. Yet, Trump delivered. And Trump had a deal for you. Kanye found out. How many African Americans got out of prison because Trump had a deal?
Use to laugh about how backwards the Soviet Union was, They had Andropov a KGB agent as head of state. Putin also.
The Deep state ran Evan McMullin.
McMullin was an operations officer of the CIA from 2001 to 2010. He then worked for about a year and a half as an investment banker after receiving an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 2011.
Then the Deep State and CIA royally fucked over General Flynn for doing what Ben Rhodes just bragged about. The CIA fucked over Flynn so that no one would get into their knickers.
So who is laughing about Andropov and Putin running the USSR/Russia now?
Hyperbole and being positive is a better speaking style and agenda than listening to Moochelle or Barrack Obama run down America while laughing all the way to the bank.
"There was a moment in winter 2018 when President Trump issued a sudden and surprising order to pull all U.S. troops out of Syria. "
'This stunning revelation is contained in a story at Defense One, which reported Thursday that the diplomat Trump named as a special envoy overseeing the Syrian conflict, worked behind the scenes to undermine orders and “routinely misled senior leaders about troop levels in Syria.”
Eventually, Trump allowed about 200 troops to remain in Syria, but we learn now that his point man in Syria lied to his superiors, likely including Trump, about that as well. It may be yet another data point which led the president to clean house at the Pentagon in the past few days, including sacking Defense Secretary Mark Esper for what’s reported to be slow-rolling the removal of troops from Afghanistan.
Jim Jeffrey, who in 2016 signed the notorious Never Trump letter accusing Trump of being a “danger to America,” told Defense One that he eventually came to believe Trump’s dealings in the Middle East were terrific but admitted his team “misled” their superiors by “playing shell games to not make clear to our leadership how many troops we had there.” '
Maybe there was nothing sudden about it. Maybe Trump had been pushing the DoD, Mattis, and others for for a few months. Maybe he delayed, because of their excuses
"Dec. 14, 2018, 5:14 AM CST
By Associated Press
BEIRUT — U.S.-backed, Kurdish-led fighters captured the last town held by the Islamic State group on Friday, after days of intense battles in the militants' single remaining enclave in eastern Syria, activists said."
www.nbcnews.com/news/world/u-s-backed-fighters-syria-capture-last-town-held-isis-n947851
Maybe in fall of 2018 all that was needed is the Kurds keep receiving weapons, ammo, money and food and they would finish the fight without American soldiers? So Trump pushed and the Deep State pushed back. There was nothing sudden about Trump's orders.
He made public what he had been saying behind closed doors, because the Deep State would not listen otherwise.
As an aside:
Trump worked harder than Hell and caught a lot of flak for trying to pull out of Afghanistan and Syria. Does good whacked out, idiot liberal like Medea Benjamin give him credit?
Hell NO!
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