Liberal Forum

Trump admin stages NFL protest while ignoring 4 dead Special Forces soldiers in Niger

Shortly after the initial reports came out that there was a serious incident in Africa involving the elite Green Berets, the Pentagon, unable to control the information flow of the incident, seemed to have panicked and went to the age-old tactic of blaming the troops on the ground in order to distance themselves and more than likely their careers from a possible political and public backlash as to why U.S. Special Forces were not only in Africa but dying in firefights with terrorists as well.

The Pentagon immediately cited the Green Beret teams ‘risk assessment’ paperwork as showing “inconsistencies” and potentially falsified reporting of the actual risk level from armed terrorist groups within the region.

For those that have spent their formative years within the armed services have seen these types of careerist “cover your ***” moves by ranking officers during any incident that may affect their collective career advancement goal of attaining that general’s star.

And the Pentagon seems to be quite comfortable being the drivers of the bus this Green Beret team is about to be thrown under.

The White House is also adding to the Pentagon’s information vacuum as well, with President Donald Trump and his administration having also failed completely to even acknowledge the fact that four American Special Forces soldiers were killed in Niger, Africa.

Even after reports from senior level military officials were saying that the Trump administration’s go to boogeyman, The Islamic State, had a hand in the deaths of these soldiers.

Still nothing.