{"id":20906,"date":"2017-04-09T02:47:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-09T02:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20906"},"modified":"2017-04-09T02:47:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-09T02:47:00","slug":"time-to-think-strategically-mr-potus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20906","title":{"rendered":"Time to think strategically, Mr. POTUS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Donald Trump needs to start crafting a strategic thought pattern as it regards Syria.<\/p>\n

In a major hurry.<\/p>\n

The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations has declared that Syrian dictator Bashar al Assad’s presence in power eliminates any “political solution” to the crisis and the bloodshed. So, what does Nikki Haley recommend to remove Assad?<\/p>\n

She isn’t saying, given that it’s not her call.<\/p>\n

That decision needs to come from the president of United States. Moreover, it needs to be made with a complete understanding of what will happen if we manage to implement “regime change” in Syria.<\/p>\n

This situation is getting more than a little scary. Sure, we launched some Tomahawk missiles at a military target in response to Syria’s use of chemical gas on civilians. The result of that strike is mixed … at best.<\/em><\/p>\n

What is the next course of action? What is the president planning and what will be the consequence? Will he consult with Congress, which Republican leaders used to demand of President Obama whenever he sought to take military action against the Islamic State or al-Qaeda? For that matter, where are the demands for congressional approval now that Trump is president?<\/p>\n

Do we go in with guns blazing?<\/a><\/p>\n

Trump used to think it was in our national interest to stay out<\/em> of Syria. Let the Russians handle ISIS, he once said. Let the Syrian government root out the terrorists, he added.<\/p>\n

No more.<\/p>\n

Now that we have entered the fight — even in this limited fashion — there needs to be some thought given to an “end game” if we\u00a0choose to escalate\u00a0this military intervention.<\/p>\n

Think strategically, Mr. President, if you are able.<\/p>\n\n

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Donald Trump needs to start crafting a strategic thought pattern as it regards Syria. In a major hurry. The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations has declared that Syrian dictator Bashar al Assad’s presence in power eliminates any “political solution” to the crisis and the bloodshed. So, what does Nikki Haley recommend to remove Assad? … Continue reading Time to think strategically, Mr. POTUS<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[556,1424,2348,2362],"class_list":["post-20906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","category-military-news","tag-bashar-al-assad","tag-donald-trump","tag-isis","tag-islamic-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20907,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20906\/revisions\/20907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}