Discussion: Graham Breaks With Trump On Syria, Calls Move An 'Obama-Like Mistake'

system1 · December 19, 2018, 4:22pm

Graham Breaks With Trump On Syria, Calls Move An 'Obama-Like Mistake' Back to article

mcstubbins · December 19, 2018, 4:23pm

Even when he’s (mostly) right, Lindsey just can’t help being a dick.

becca656 · December 19, 2018, 4:24pm

More like a W mistake for going in there in the first place, but is Trump losing Graham?

erik_t · December 19, 2018, 4:27pm

Trump has never had Graham’s backing on foreign policy, I don’t think.

brooklyndweller · December 19, 2018, 4:28pm

Personally, I would doubt it. Whatever Rump has over Miss Lindsey, it’s pretty much air-tight. This message wasn’t really for the country at large; this was more to console the feral trumpers who could care less about something called “Kurds” when their Dear Leader has destroyed the Caliphate.

demosthenes59 · December 19, 2018, 4:33pm

President Obama wasn’t a Russian asset who meekly followed Putin’s orders to withdraw from Syria to increase Russian and Iranian influence. Trump is a dirty stinking traitor.

And, to add one essential point: STFU Miss Lindsey.

leeblzm · December 19, 2018, 4:34pm

Isn’t this the third time the US has screwed the Kurds?

epicurus · December 19, 2018, 4:36pm

You mean like the “Obama-like mistake” of sending troops there in the first place? FU, Linseed, you’re a lying toady, still trying to make nice with The Current Occupant. Let’s hope we rid the Senate of this despicable man the next time he’s up for re-election.

carolson · December 19, 2018, 4:39pm

This enrages me. Every single Democrat should use “Trump-like” mistake for the inevitable recession, re-de-regulation of financial and environmental laws, requiring tax returns, and every other norm the moron has blasted through, not to mention the caging of families. Who the hell does he think he is? God, I hate them.

irasdad · December 19, 2018, 4:39pm

“Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), a key GOP ally for President Trump in Congress, pilloried the President’s decision to pull U.S. troops from Syria in a statement on Wednesday, calling the resolution an ‘Obama-like mistake’…”

Lindsey Graham is what happens when passive-aggression becomes sentient.

sysprog · December 19, 2018, 4:40pm

He is SUCH a little peckerhead. Yes. It’s a mistake. It’s a TRUMP mistake not an ‘Obama-like’ mistake. For Christ’s sake.

zlohcuc · December 19, 2018, 4:43pm

Curiously ignores Trumps presidency which is a worldwide security mistake…

leftcoaster · December 19, 2018, 4:45pm

And what will Graham do other than clutch his pearls? Nothing absolutely nothing.

steviedee111 · December 19, 2018, 4:50pm

Bashar al Assad is Trump’s new best friend. I see a Damascus Tower in Trump’s future.

firsttimecaller · December 19, 2018, 4:53pm

Masterful reverse psychology, Lindsey.

cd · December 19, 2018, 4:53pm

GAWD if only tRUmp made Obama-like mistakes our country would be so much better off, I miss the glory days of predictable and stable government leadership

all this MAGA is making what’s left of my hair turn gray

emiliano4 · December 19, 2018, 4:56pm

If Graham actually saw himself as most Americans see him, he would probably be undergoing treatment.

But he may be already.

lizzymom · December 19, 2018, 4:59pm

Graham is sentient??

inversion · December 19, 2018, 5:00pm

“If these media reports are true, it will be an Obama-like mistake made by the Trump Administration."

inversion · December 19, 2018, 5:04pm

For the record

Iraq n Syria aren’t the same thing.
Graham was against the Iraqi withdrawal agreement.
‘44’ was for leaving a sizeable force in Iraq, but then Wikileaks shit stirred…