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Donald Trump rejected plan to defeat Isis because it was too similar to Obama's

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AcademicSaucer

Member
Plan to eradicate militant group was supposed to have been agreed by February

Donald Trump rejected the US military’s plan for tackling Isis because he thought it was too similar to Barack Obama’s, reports suggest.

Despite the terrorist group having been all but driven out of Iraq and under threat of losing its strongholds in Syria, the White House is said to have asked officials to come up with new proposals in order to show that Mr Trump is different to his predecessor.

In May, the US President said he would hold a press conference in two weeks to lay out his Isis plan. Two weeks later, he said the announcement would be in a further two weeks.

Now over six weeks later, reports suggest the delay is in part because Mr Trump is determined to differentiate himself from Mr Obama and wants to make certain the two plans are different enough.

The main change implemented by the Republican to date involved delegating responsibility for authorising air strikes and special forces missions.

Whereas Mr Obama had been directly involved in signing off operations, Mr Trump has handed much of the responsibility to his Defence Secretary, Jim Mattis. Mr Mattis has, in turn, given more authority to military commanders.

Mr Trump has also ramped up operations against Isis and its affiliates in Afghanistan, Yemen and Somalia.
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source: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...a-iraq-raqqa-mosul-us-president-a7826701.html
 
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Hubbl3

Unconfirmed Member
"Bring me your best idea!"

*presents President Obama's plan*

"Bring me your 2nd best idea!"
 
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bremon

Member
"What's that? Obama has two functional feet? I'll show them I'm different, I'll shoot mine". A high school class president has more rational trains of thought.
 
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FrankCanada97

Roughly the size of a baaaaaarge
If it came down to Trump or Mattis, I would like to think that Mattis would be the one to make better military decisions.
 
Wulfric

Wulfric

Member
I try to avoid memes for issues of this seriousness but... smh.

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SolarPowered

Member
One of these days one of these Trump threads is literally going to cause me to go into a full on seizure. I can't even imagine how the experts who have to deal with Donald feel.
 
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norm9

Member
I get it, if it was coming to work with the same shirt as some other dude. This is a little differernt though.
 
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Speevy

Banned
Obama should have created a bunch of reverse psychology executive orders to get this nitwit to do the right thing.
 
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geomon

Member
I'm still waiting for this motherfucker's plan that he said he had during the election. He knows more than all the generals right? What the fuck is he waiting for?
 
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Balphon

Member
The headline doesn't really make sense since the Trump WH has largely just followed the strategy the Obama WH was using in the last years of that administration. And the reason they need a new strategy now is because the old one has been working so well that they're literally running out of people to kill. Thus, a different strategy is needed mostly because the old one is obsoleting itself.

EDIT: Though the hilarity in the fact that Trump's main contribution has been to delegate authority to "the generals" he often claimed to have superior knowledge of ISIS over can't be overstated.
 
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jayu26

Member
Hey Trump, you know what else Obama liked? He liked to destroy environment, he thought no one should have healthcare/insurance and he was secretly Putin's best friend.
 
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Babymario26

Member
Guys remember he had his own super secret amazing plan he didnt want to get leaked during the election. "Believe me" he said.

lmao trump please get out
 
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PingPongvonLaserstein

Member
Since I refuse to believe that Trump actually has the discipline (or capacity) to have familiarized himself with the previous administration's military strategies, I can only wonder who the asshole is who's feeding him this information. It's totally Bannon, isn't it.
 
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DarkJediKnight

Member
Babymario26 said:
Guys remember he had his own super secret amazing plan he didnt want to get leaked during the election. "Believe me" he said.

lmao trump please get out
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Yea, and then he revealed that his plan involved getting the best generals together to come up with a plan.

How is this moron successful is beyond me. Nothing short of stupidity comes out of his mouth. He has to go down as the dumbest president ever.
 
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JHoNNy1OoO

Member
Trump should also stop breathing air since Obama liked to breath it. Stop drinking water and eating food while he's at it as well.

I expected Trump to be a POS but he is far exceeding even my expectations.
 
Link

Link

The Autumn Wind
I still can't believe that this dumbass is our president. God, this country is full of stupid motherfuckers.
 
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Galactic Barret

Member
Could this be the reason why Zainab Ahmad was hired?
Link said:
I still can't believe that this dumbass is our president. God, this country is full of stupid motherfuckers.
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Indeed. Its a shame. Even worse that they have a President to aspire to and can freely shun any critical thinking to be just like him.
 
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