Pentagon reporter: I don't know any military commander who thinks Trump's plan is going to work

[DonViejo]

SARAH K. BURRIS
27 FEB 2017 AT 14:44 ET

On the heels of President Donald Trump’s declaration that the United States must “start winning wars again,” CNN’s Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr revealed military leaders have a different opinion.

“There are a lot of questions about what the president means,” Starr told Wolf Blitzer. “He said he was taking this from watching the military during his days back in high school and college in his words when perhaps it was a much more clear time for military victories.”

Trump was in high school in the early 1960’s, following World War II and the Korean War. After Trump turned 18, he was eligible to fight in the Vietnam War but received four draft deferments for bone spurs and one deferment for an unknown reason.

Starr said that those wars had “major tank battles” and “major air battles” that delivered “overwhelming firepower.” Starr said that those wars had “major tank battles” and “major air battles” that delivered “overwhelming firepower.”

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[Ilsa]

1. After 25 years of terrorism inflicted even in his home city,

45 still doesn't understand terrorism. He thinks this is a physical war and he's Gen. Patton. And this is why so many of us think he's so dangerous.

I hope the generals hold him in check.

[stevenleser]

2. Unfortunately, no one in the Nat Sec apparatus can hold him in check if he is determined.

He can start firing Generals if they aren't willing to carry out his orders.

That may be one of the first warnings we get, if three and four star Generals start getting fired.

[nclib]

3. Trump was probably watching military movies.

He wouldn't know the difference now.

[Achilleaze]

4. republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief thinks his high school gamesmanship

will conquer the freaking planet so he and his plutocrat oil pals can suck up all the freaking wealth in the world.

Real military commanders: unimpressed with the republican Draft-Dodgers lamebrain a-hole "ideas."

[BeyondGeography]

5. He just wants to march at the head of a big parade for himself

He's such a stupid boy.

[byronius]

6. 'Pew -pew -peww - kaspang! Up that hill, men! Pew-pew-pewwwww!'

The President defends Fort Pillow and Couch Cushionburg.

[snooper2]

7. How much does it pay to transcribe a TV interview for RipStory?

Do these people just do it for fun or is it like 2 cents a word

[Orsino]

8. It's not even a plan. More a set of slogans.

Trump isn't a plan guy.

[AndyTiedye]

9. It Means He is Going to Start More Wars

[Nitram]

10. Trump has a plan?

Other than "buy more ships and planes and bomb them back to the Stone Age."

[4bucksagallon]

11. I can't count the number of times after I returned from Vietnam my draft dodging colleagues at work

would come up to me and remind me how we would be winning the war if only the politicians would just get out of the way and let our military kill everything that was beyond the city gates. I had to tell them that the war was more about rice, rubber trees, oil and a way to keep Russia and China busy supplying the North and destroying Cambodia and Laos with bombing campaigns. While enriching our non combatant allies in the area chiefly Thailand and the Philippines... BTW Trumps 5th deferment was for Anorchia I am almost positive.

[Cha]

12. KICK