Donald Trump doesn’t disagree with sending special operations troops to Syria, but disagrees with how President Obama did it.
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“Well, I could agree with it, but I don’t agree with telling it to the world. I would send them in quietly,” the Republican presidential front-runner said in a telephone interview with CNN’s “New Day.” “Right now they have a target on their back. So I would agree with it much more [if it were done more quietly].”
Trump added that though he didn’t know “what purpose they’re being sent in for, but I would agree with it.”
“But I don’t like doing is sending them in so, I mean, with such fanfare,” Trump said. “Let them go in, go in quietly. Be unpredictable, but I just, from my standpoint, I find it very, very hard every time we do something we announce it for publicity reasons, and I think that’s very negative. I think it’s a bad thing.”
Obama announced earlier this week 250 special operation troops would be sent to Syria to help combat the Islamic State, but the president stopped short of calling them combat troops.
