Trump said at a meeting in Greenville, North Carolina: “We are going to convey my top generals and give them a simple instruction”.
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Donald Trump made an unbelievable statement during the NBC hosted a “Commander-in-Chief Forum”.
Part of the problem that we’ve had is we go in, we defeat somebody, and then we don’t know what we’re doing after that. He said he has “no interest in Libya” if the United States doesn’t take the country’s oil and simultaneously advocated for USA troops leaving Iraq and US troops staying and taking Iraq’s oil.
Jeff Sessions defended his party’s nominee in an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper on “The Lead” when pressed about what happened to a “foolproof” plan to defeat ISIS that the candidate had spoken of in 2015. It was actually somewhat stable-I don’t think it could ever be very stable, it’s a war we never should have gone into in the first place. “And we are not putting ground troops into Syria”, she said. Now he will ask the people who know less about ISIS than Trump does to come up with the plan that has already existed for more than a year.
“Just from a military standpoint, all I see is you’re taking the oil of a sovereign nation, which is our ally, under this antiquated notion of to the victor go the spoils”.
“I’ve always said, shouldn’t be there, but if we’re gonna get out, take the oil”.
He said that one of the benefits had the USA taken the oil was that ISIS would not have been able to use it to “fuel themselves”. As he explained in April, “I have a great plan”. But I wanna be-I don’t want to.
During a speech before the American Legion last week, Hillary Clinton similarly favored lifting the sequester, saying that the cuts makes “no sense at all”. He argued that the United States has made some good advances against the group.
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The problem with that, of course, is that roughly five seconds ago Trump told us that he did not, in fact, have a plan. After a rambling answer about what he deemed the Obama administration’s failures in the Middle East, he pledged to “take the oil” to prevent groups like ISIS gaining control of the resource. If he wins, he doesn’t want to broadcast to the enemy exactly what his plan is.
