Tuesday, December 19, 2017
Former White House Insider Sebastian Gorka, Explains What Trump Did to Devastate ISIS
“Our troops have been unleashed,” Sebastian Gorka, former deputy assistant to President Donald Trump and counterterrorism adviser, said Friday at The Heritage Foundation.
“I had a tier one operator, meaning a top of the top special operations guy on detail from the National Security Council … come up to me in maybe week five of the administration and say, ‘Sir, you have no idea, no idea how the morale amongst our forces have skyrocketed because we are no longer micromanaged … and we are allowed to do our job, and it is clear the president trusts us,” he said.
The contrast in strategy has made all the difference, Gorka said.
“We have been told by the last administration that ISIS is a generational threat … [that] our children, our grandchildren will be fighting ISIS jihadis decades from now,” Gorka said. “Well, I guess the Trump administration has defined generations to last just a few months.”
While President Barack Obama called ISIS a “J.V. team” in a January 2014 interview in The New Yorker, Gorka said Trump and his administration did what the Obama administration said would take years.
“There is no ISIS caliphate any longer,” Gorka said. “We have liberated Mosul, we have have taken back Raqqa, the operational headquarters of ISIS, and just three weeks ago, the last ISIS stronghold in Syria has fallen as well.”
Trump has been successful, Gorka said, by evaluating threats and responding to threats strategically.
Trump “looked at the threat we faced clearly as a war, not as some problem to be managed, but as a war, and not only that, he wants to win that war, and that is exactly what we have been doing as a nation,” Gorka said.
U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis has also been key in Trump’s successes in defeating terrorism.
“We have gone under Secretary Mattis from a strategy of attrition, he has said this openly, a strategy of attrition to a strategy of annihilation,” Gorka said.
Trump has also made gains on winning the war on terrorism by acknowledging that there is ...
Dershowitz Uses Sports Analogy to Explain How Trump Team Is 'Playing' Mueller
Trump told reporters on Sunday evening that he does not plan to fire Mueller, and that makes sense to Dershowitz, who explained the Trump strategy as "playing the refs."
Well, I learned about this from Red Auerbach, the great coach of the Boston Celtics who told me one day when we were sitting at a Celtics game that whenever he used to scream at an official and yell at the official, he'd always get the next call in his favor. Then I heard the same thing from a baseball player who said when he protested a ball or a strike he would get the next call.
I think that's the tactic that's being used here. You continuously attack Mueller. You bring up every possible issue, whether it be conflict of interest, hiring the wrong people, failing to get a warrant for the emails, using the dossier to get the national security warrant -- and Mueller, who's so concerned about his integrity and his reputation, may very well be inclined to lean over backwards to...
Clapper under fire for calling Trump a Russian asset: ‘He just accused the president of treason, essentially’
Former U.N. ambassador John Bolton responded by trashing Clapper’s over-the-top paranoia. “He just accused the president of treason essentially,” Bolton told Judge Jeanine Pirro. “He’s saying that he is an unwitting Russian agent. If he’s got evidence for that I would like to hear it!”
Bolton said this unsubstantiated narrative being pushed by liberal media has gotten out of control and is hurting the United States. And it’s time for...
In 1 Chart, What’s in the Final Tax Reform Bill
The conference report is a serious effort to reform a complex and badly broken system that provides significant tax relief to the vast majority of taxpaying Americans.
The 90 Miles Mystery Box: Episode #110
You have come across a mystery box. But what is inside?
It could be literally anything from the serene to the horrific,
from the beautiful to the repugnant,
from the mysterious to the familiar.
If you decide to open it, you could be disappointed,
you could be inspired, you could be appalled.
This is not for the faint of heart or the easily offended.
You have been warned.
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