When I was watching Trump last night thinking, “He really is a dummy.” Trump had just finished claiming that his secret plan to defeat ISIS might get shelved if his new Generals came up with a better plan, or he might combine his secret plan with the Generals plan – the key being unpredictability. Then, before I could even say “What the F…?” he managed this complete nonsense.
“We used to say, to the victor go the spoils, and there was no victor there, believe me, there was no victor, but I always said, take the oil. One of the benefits we would have had if we took the oil was ISIS would not have been able to take oil and use that oil to fuel themselves.
I mean, is it me or is that just nutso? Here is RedState, not typically a font of clear thinking:
…if you are going to do something that is designed to spark a violent insurgency you could hardly have come up with anything better suited to the task than the forcible confiscation of the home country’s oil reserves.
There’s also the fact that you can’t just immediately extract all the oil from the ground in either Iraq or Libya. It’s a process that takes years and decades. So as long as an insurgency continued to exist, the risk that it would seize areas where oil is produced and extracted exists. The United States could not physically have just removed all the oil from the ground and left, not even if they wanted to.
As they used to say in the Dover in my youth, the guy is talking out his ass.
