Message from @wͫ́í̯̭̭̆̾nͣͣŃT̥̥͕̈́.exͯ̈́̉e͋͆̐ͮ

2018-10-30 23:49:26 UTC

have to get better with our allies on the MIL side. feeding info to police off the battlefield, collaborating together, so we buy the time for diplomats to amass the larger effort,
hate filled enemy. under no illusion what theyre like. have to deal with that in a mil police matter.
our next generation, we will address with education and economic opportunity.
we HAVE to give people hope, and it cannot be uni-lateral anywhere in the world.
has to be multi lateral. inclusive. STEADFAST.
enabling MIL is going to have to be supporting state department.
start with afganistan. look at the countries around it.. started outside, worked inside.
had to put more troops in...
re align those troops to supporting the afgan security forces by training/advising/assisting
we created an army and pulled the training wheels off too early.

Deleted User

2018-10-30 23:50:25 UTC

only special forces had mentors with nato with them.
but spread out in penny packets aronud the country.
afgran forces we pulled all mentoring away from.
regional problem. re enforce, re align them so that more forces have our mentors with them with nato air support. the high ground is very tough ground to take if the enemy has got it.
NATO is no longer prohibited from supporting the Afghan are the ones doing the fighting... we can always own the high ground. PROTECTION OF THE PEOPLE! surrendered ground where few people lived, the afgans are doing the fighting... the taliban has been prevented from doing what they said they were going to do.
disrupt an election they were unable to disrupt.
RECONCILIATION.
working it. hes a force of nature hard at work on this. afgan led, afgan owned peace effort.
what is heartbreakingly difficult to understand.. is that progress and violence can be going on at the same time. I understand, we never thought this was going to be an easy job. but we are there bc if we want to protect ourselves from what happened on 9/11.. this is worth while.
when he put this forward,

Deleted User

2018-10-30 23:50:46 UTC

he
Challenges every assumption. every sentence. every decision. aspect.. very robust discussion in every sense of the word.
50 nations in the fight --> 39.. were back to 41, both arab muslim nations joined, 1000 more troops coming from our partner/ally nations have been added in addition to the 3000 we added when we reinforced the force there.
goal= reconciliation.(edited)
tragedy that has grown beyond my ability to articulate it.
refugee in camps. bosnia. asia. ...never seem em as traumatized as syria.
If it werent for Iranian REGIME giving full support to asad, he wouldve been long gone.
What have we learned along the way...

Deleted User

2018-10-30 23:51:11 UTC

one point I would make is, it has been a non state partner, 50/50 kurd and arab that has done the bulk of fighting in Syria. When we came into the office we reviewed situation, determined we HAD to change what was going on
changed tactics from Christian warfare... push out of place, push out of place... etc
we surrounded first.. then moved against it. every battle field were in over there is humanitarian field. this enemy is merciless and uses the innocents as shields. some of them were consequences of war, more than we EVER wanted to see happen , but it was part of the fight.