R.I.P. Scout26
“We were always playing shell games to not make clear to our leadership how many troops we had there,” Jeffrey said in an interview. The actual number of troops in northeast Syria is “a lot more than” the roughly two hundred troops Trump initially agreed to leave there in 2019.
Nameless bureaucrats who disagreed with Trump’s directive decided simply to undermine it, first by convincing him to leave behind a residual force and then by misleading “senior officials” about the actual number of U.S. troops left in the region, according to outgoing Ambassador Jim Jeffrey, the U.S. special envoy for Syria.“What Syria withdrawal?” he told Defense One. “There was never a Syria withdrawal.”
But there's no such thing as "deep state." The media told me it's a myth.
Someone needs a court martial. to be
If SSG Fitzer would have lied about resource usage on that level, to the commander-in-chief, SSG Fitzer would have been put out with a BCD, at a minimum. More likely, would be busting rocks at leavenworth.
Why are we discussing UCMJ in relation to a State Department employee?
You’re right! An FSO lying to the cinc totally happens in a vacuum, and none of the generals or combatant commanders are involved, I’m sure
I didn't mean to imply it happened in a vacuum, I was genuinely asking how UCMJ got into this conversation, because I hadn't seen mention of military personnel in the original article. Court Marshal had been mentioned upthread of you. BTW, Good to see you again.
