כאפצעם האט געשריבן:4 אמעריקאנע סאלדאטן זענען געהארגעט געווארן אין אן אייסיס אטאקע אין נייזשיר.
עס האט פאסירט אינעם אפריקאנע לאנד נייזשיר נעבן מאלי ווי 50 אייסיס קעמפער זענען אנגעפאלן מיט א פלוצימע אטאקע אן אמערקאנער מאטארקאדע וואס האט געטראגן עטליכע צענדליג זעלנער אויף א רוטינע פאטראל, אומברענגענדיג 4 און ערענסט פארוואונדעט 2.
די אטאקע איז שוין אלט באלד 2 וואכן אבער איז הערשט יעצט אויפגעדעקט געווארן, עס הערשט א שטארקע טונקעלקייט וואס דא האט פאסירט און די אדמיניסטראציע איז גענצליך שטום, און מיט די ביסל אינפארמאציע וואס די מידיע קריגט דורך ליעקס איז נאך אלס א זייער אומקלארע בילד איבער די שרעקליכע מעשה.
דער פרעזידענט וואס אנטוישט נישט מיט זיין שלימזלות.. קוקט אויס ווי עס חזר'ט זיך איבער א פארטא ריקא רעספאנס סאמוטאכע.
ווי שלעכט קען שוין א פרעזידענט רעספאנדן צו אן אטאקע? אומגלויבליך:
קודם איז שוין באלד 2 וואכן און מ'הערט נישט קיין מוק פון דעם פרעזידענט איבער א טויטליכע אייסיס אטאקע קעגן אמעריקא, נישט קיין איין טוויט,דרשה, אדער פרעסע קאנפערענץ איבער די טויטליכסטע אטאקע אויף זיין זייגער.
אצינד 12 טעג נאכן אטאקע ווערנדיג אויפגעפאדערט ביי א פרעסע קאנפערנץ אויף זיין שטילקייט און פארוואס ער האט נאך אפילו זיך נישט פארבינדן מיט די געהארגעטע סאלדאטנס פאמיליעס האט ער פרובירט פארדרייען דעם שמועס טענה'דיג אז אבאמא און די פריערדיגע פרעזידענטן פלעגן נישט רופן די פאמיליעס פון געפאלענע סאלדאטן.. א פון ארבל ארויסגעשארצטער ליגענט אויף וואס די מידיע האטזעך שטייצעך ארויפגעזעצט מיט רויט שרייענדע קעפלעך און אטעם פארכאפענדע קאווערידזש..
ענדליך האט ער אנגערופן די פאמיליעס, איז זיין טרייסט ווערטער פאר א אלמנה געווען: ליסען, דיין מאן האט דאך געוויסט אויף וואס ער סיינט זיך ארויף..אבער איי געס ס'טוט עניוועי וויי.. א סטעיטמענט וואס האט באגאסן זאלץ צו די וואונדן און איר געמאכט אויסשיסן וויינען.
אבער אפילו יעצט, הערשט ווייטער א א טויט שטילקייט צום אמעריקאנעם פובליק, נישטא קיין טוויט, דרשה, גארנישט.
WP: Twelve days of silence, then a swipe at Obama: How Trump handled four dead soldiersOn Oct. 4, the day four U.S. Special Forces soldiers were gunned down at the border of Niger and Mali in the deadliest combat incident since President Trump took office, the commander in chief was lighting up Twitter with attacks on the “fake news” media.
The next day, when the remains of the first soldiers reached Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, Trump was assailing the “fake news” and warning the country of “the calm before the storm.” What storm, he never did say.
Over that weekend, as the identity of the fourth soldier was disclosed publicly and more details emerged about the incident, Trump was golfing and letting it rip on Twitter about Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), the NFL, North Korea, Puerto Rico and, again, alleged media bias.
But a president who revels in providing color commentary on the news said nothing about what happened in Niger for 12 straight days — until Monday in the Rose Garden of the White House, where he was asked by a reporter to explain his uncharacteristic silence.
In his answer,
Trump said in his defense that he had written personal letters to the soldiers’ family members, and he then tried to use the issue to gain a political advantage. Trump leveled false accusations at his predecessors, including former president Barack Obama, saying they never or rarely called family members of service members who were killed on their watch, when in fact they regularly did.
As anger swelled, Trump continued to attempt to bolster his broader claim Tuesday by invoking the death of Marine 1st Lt. Robert Kelly, the son of White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly who was killed in 2010 while serving in Afghanistan.
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White House has not explained why Trump took so long to comment publicly about the Niger ambush, but officials said Tuesday that he was regularly briefed on the incident during that period. They declined to provide details.
In his call with Sgt. La David T. Johnson’s widow, Myeshia Johnson, Trump told her, “He knew what was signing up for, but I guess it hurts anyway,” according to the account of Rep. Frederica S. Wilson (D-Fla.), who was riding in a limousine with Johnson when the president called and heard the conversation on speakerphone.
Wilson recalled in an interview with The Washington Post that
Johnson broke down in tears. “He made her cry,” Wilson said. The congresswoman said she wanted to take the phone and “curse him out,” but that the Army sergeant holding the phone would not let her speak to the president.
The White House neither confirmed nor denied Wilson’s account. “The President’s conversations with the families of American heroes who have made the ultimate sacrifice are private,” a White House official said in a statement.
Leon Panetta, who served as defense secretary and White House chief of staff under Democratic presidents, said Trump should have more quickly conveyed the “deepest regrets of the country for the families that lost their loved ones.” He put some of the responsibility for Trump’s slow response on his staff.
“Somebody screwed up here, okay?” Panetta said. “You don’t let that amount of time pass when our men and women in uniform have been killed.”
Trump did not serve in the military — he sought and received several draft deferments during the Vietnam War — and has drawn pointed criticism in the past for his comments about military heroes.
Peter Wehner, an adviser and
speechwriter in President George W. Bush’s White House, said communicating empathy and compassion has been for Trump like speaking “a foreign language.”
“Part of being a president is at moments being pastor in chief, dispensing grace and understanding and giving voice to sorrow, tragedy and loss,” Wehner said. “But he’s a person who’s missing an empathy gene.”
Steve Schmidt, a Republican strategist and former adviser to Bush and McCain, said he was surprised by Trump’s 12-day silence on the Niger attack.
“There is no issue too small for him to comment on,” Schmidt said. “He tweets at all hours of the morning and night on every conceivable subject. He has time to insult, to degrade, to demean always. But once again, you see this moral obtusity in the performance of his duties as commander in chieff.”
Inside the West Wing, Trump’s advisers have been furious with what they consider unfair criticism of their boss’s comments leveled by former Obama staffers. Privately, they have accused the media of assuming the worst in Trump — jumping to a conclusion that he does not respect military members because he waited so long to comment on the four killed Green Berets. One top aide argued that a “tone and veil of hate” has defined the coverage.
This month’s deadly operation in Niger was unusual and highly sensitive, and the military has not yet disclosed many details. It was something of a surprise that the Special Forces unit came under fire — and the remains of one of the fallen soldiers, Johnson, 25, were not recovered until two days afterward.
Marine Lt. Gen. Frank McKenzie, the director of the Pentagon’s Joint Staff, told reporters Oct. 12 that the ambush marked the first time in at least six months that the U.S. military had faced enemy fire in the region.
The general said the Pentagon believes there is some connection to an affiliate of the Islamic State terrorist group in the attack.
U.S. Africa Command first disclosed late Oct. 4 that U.S. troops had come under fire in Niger. The command confirmed the following morning that three U.S. soldiers — Staff Sgts. Bryan C. Black, 35; Jeremiah W. Johnson, 39; and Wright — were killed.
On Oct. 6, the Pentagon disclosed that U.S. troops also had recovered the remains of Johnson. The military did not explain how Johnson was separated from other U.S. forces in the mission, a development that rarely occurs in a military that prides itself on never leaving service members behind on the battlefield.
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis told reporters Oct. 11 that he “completely rejected” any notion that the rescue effort for the unit was slow, and he promised that the military will examine the operation
Bonnie Carroll, who founded the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors, said she has had good experiences with several presidents when it comes to mourning the loss of fallen service members.
“While there is no one way to acknowledge the death,” she said in a statement, “
what is important for the family is that the president acknowledges the life and service of their loved one, and expresses gratitude on behalf of the nation.”
