I just happened to see a short bit on MSNBC during which a military "expert" denounced the supposed plan to send 120,000 US troops to confront Iran as amateurish and ridiculous. That would be way too small a number of troops according to this screaming self-proclaimed expert.
News stories like this one are a principal reason why watching MSNBC is good for nothing. First, there is no plan to send 120,000 American troops to confront Iran or anyone else in the Middle East. There were reports yesterday that the Pentagon had drawn up contingency plans for sending up to that number of troops, but even these reports which relied completely on unnamed "knowledgeable sources" said that the plans had not even been presented to President Trump for review and that these documents had just been drawn up as part of a planning exercise. That means that the MSNBC "expert" was responding to something that isn't actually real. Second, the contingency plans have not been made public. There is no way that the MSNBC "expert" could validly judge the efficacy of these plans if he hasn't even seen them. Even assuming the guy actually knows something about the military (which I doubt), he needs to see what's in the plans if he's going to critique them. It's like a food critic saying that he's heard from a source that tonight at the White House they are serving chicken pot pies for dinner and then going on to give the opinion that they don't taste good. How would he know without tasting them or at least knowing what's in them?
It's bizarre that MSNBC would put this guy on TV just to give an opinion that once again President Trump has messed up -- especially since Trump is uninvolved with these plans. Indeed, it's so bizarre that I think it is funny.
News stories like this one are a principal reason why watching MSNBC is good for nothing. First, there is no plan to send 120,000 American troops to confront Iran or anyone else in the Middle East. There were reports yesterday that the Pentagon had drawn up contingency plans for sending up to that number of troops, but even these reports which relied completely on unnamed "knowledgeable sources" said that the plans had not even been presented to President Trump for review and that these documents had just been drawn up as part of a planning exercise. That means that the MSNBC "expert" was responding to something that isn't actually real. Second, the contingency plans have not been made public. There is no way that the MSNBC "expert" could validly judge the efficacy of these plans if he hasn't even seen them. Even assuming the guy actually knows something about the military (which I doubt), he needs to see what's in the plans if he's going to critique them. It's like a food critic saying that he's heard from a source that tonight at the White House they are serving chicken pot pies for dinner and then going on to give the opinion that they don't taste good. How would he know without tasting them or at least knowing what's in them?
It's bizarre that MSNBC would put this guy on TV just to give an opinion that once again President Trump has messed up -- especially since Trump is uninvolved with these plans. Indeed, it's so bizarre that I think it is funny.
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