2020 Democrats commend troops, not Trump, for Syria raid

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Democratic presidential candidates are heaping praise on U.S. military forces who pulled off the weekend raid that left Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi dead.

"This victory was not due to Donald Trump's leadership," former Vice-President Joe Biden said Monday. "It happened despite his ineptitude."

Nearly one year before Election Day, the raid is a reminder of how developments overseas can quickly influence the presidential campaign. Trump is eager to turn al-Baghdadi's death into a defining moment of his administration, one that could remind waffling Republicans why they support him. And Democrats, who have largely been focused issues such as health care and combating rising college debt, must now decry Trump's foreign policy without appearing to disparage U.S. forces.

Biden happily reveled in one of the Democrats' favourite slogans that year: "Bin Laden is dead. GM is alive." And it was Trump who was among the Republicans discouraging too much credit going to the commander in chief.So far, foreign policy hasn't been a leading issue in the Democratic presidential primary, which has instead focused on top domestic issues and a broader philosophical debate over whether the party is moving too far to the left.

Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana, who served in Afghanistan, was somewhat more conciliatory, saying "credit should go to all involved" while adding that "those who were at the tip of the spear deserve the most credit."

 

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Didn't pay enough to spotter and wrong type of spotter per spook agreements, also no offer in US.

Well, of course they can't let the President of the United States of America take credit for anything.

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