Looks like that Kurds are on their own.....>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Maybe.
I hope the Kurds hand the Turkish army and their air force a solid shit kicking.
But I suspect that Christians in Action might be in the air as we speak.
Since 1952 Turkey has been a NATO ally, perhaps something that no longer should be since they have become Muslim fundamentalist, with strong Sharia law, tantamount to a theocracy.
We’ll see. Fox News is reporting that Turkey will take custody of the prisoners we’re holding. That would be a good thing. Not sure if this includes the Euro Muslims that Trump has been trying to ship back.
The US has screwed over the Kurds a half dozen time just since in the past fifty years but the Kurds keep falling for the BS every time.
I trust the WH knows what it is doing and this is not the “ abandonment of noble allies” the media and neocons are playing it to be.
Not all Kurds are equal. Various militia have different agendas. Some are basically communist, some are just fine with their own goal of ethnic cleansing and terror as a political weapon.
I wouldn’t be at all disappointed if Turkey just snuffed all the ISIS vermin.
Have not they always been on their own. The United States i has been helping them but it cannot change the political reality of the Middle East. The United States cannot remain indefinitely.
It’s time to bring our forces home from the entire Middle East and Europe since we are basically oil independent. We can use our carriers to patrol the hot spots, however I would station much of our army on our borders for added security. AMERICA FIRST.
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The United States was supposed to be in Syria for 30 days, that was many years ago. We stayed and got deeper and deeper into battle with no aim in sight. When I arrived in Washington, ISIS was running rampant in the area. We quickly defeated 100% of the ISIS Caliphate,.....
....including capturing thousands of ISIS fighters, mostly from Europe. But Europe did not want them back, they said you keep them USA! I said “NO, we did you a great favor and now you want us to hold them in U.S. prisons at tremendous cost. They are yours for trials.” They.....
.....again said “NO,” thinking, as usual, that the U.S. is always the “sucker,” on NATO, on Trade, on everything. The Kurds fought with us, but were paid massive amounts of money and equipment to do so. They have been fighting Turkey for decades. I held off this fight for....
....almost 3 years, but it is time for us to get out of these ridiculous Endless Wars, many of them tribal, and bring our soldiers home. WE WILL FIGHT WHERE IT IS TO OUR BENEFIT, AND ONLY FIGHT TO WIN. Turkey, Europe, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Russia and the Kurds will now have to.....
...figure the situation out, and what they want to do with the captured ISIS fighters in their “neighborhood.” They all hate ISIS, have been enemies for years. We are 7000 miles away and will crush ISIS again if they come anywhere near us!
7:40 AM · Oct 7, 2019
Finally, with real foreign policy under a strong president, the United States is demonstrating strength, determination, resolve and agility in Syria and for the Kurds.
“having defeated the ISIS territorial ‘Caliphate”
Not true. They still have elements hunkered down in places no one - Syria, or the Kurds yet occupy.
Turkey is NOT entering Syria to finish off ISIS.
Turkey occupied Afrin in Northern Syria.
It became a haven for ISIS and Al Queda remnants retreating from Kurds and/or Assad. Turkey allowed them to eliminate the Kurds in Afrin province as much as they could - so Erdogan didn’t have lose his own troops doing it. Those ISIS and Al Queda remnannts in Afrin got their arms from Turkey.
Afrin later started receiving the ISIS refugees that gave up whole villages to Assad and/or the Kurds.
Afrin - with all its radical remnants - will be the spear coming out of Afrin to protect the Turkish assault.
That assault is directed at NO ONE but the Kurds.
Our retreat effectively eliminates any bargaining tool we have over any outcome in Syria.
The Kurds will be right to never ally with us again. They will now be squeezed between Assad, Erdogan and the Mullahs in Tehran, and on their own in those conflicts to come.
Is our departure necessary, for our own troops or our own interest? NO.
Had we told Erdogan we were not moving any of our forces out of Northern Syria and his forces clash with ours the price will be on him, not us.
Erdogan would have cancelled his offensive, and our special forces in Syria would not have been in greater danger, from Assad or Russia.
That makes this move unexplicable, other than the 2020 elections are coming up.
There will be so many other reasons I will still vote for Trump and no one else next year.
But this action will not be one of the reasons.