Posted on 10/14/2019 5:59:43 PM PDT by bitt
President Trump has played this out perfectly. By isolating Turkish President Recep Erdogan, and effectively leaving him naked to an alliance of his enemies, Erdogan is now urgently asking for the U.S. to mediate peace negotiations with Kurdish forces.
This request happens immediately after President Trump signed an executive order [See Here] triggering the sanction authority of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. Erdogan called the White House requesting an urgent phone call with President Trump.
After President Trump talked to Kurdish General Mazloum Kobani Abdi, the commander of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, President Trump then discussed the options available to President Erdogan. As a result of that conversation, Erdogan requested the U.S. mediate negotiations. Vice-President Mike Pence announces he will be traveling to the region with National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien to lead that effort. WATCH:
(Excerpt) Read more at theconservativetreehouse.com ...
This all sounds promising, but I still want to see what Putin gets out of all this.
“Trump is savvy, AND if this mess doesn’t get straightened out without terrible loss of Kurdish lives, I’m going to vote for someone else. Or not vote.”
You like to be led around by the nose.
Stable Genius completes the mission in 48 hours, warmongers saddened.
This makes zero sense. Zero, none, nada.
If you hit these tyrants with sanctions (food, fuel and machinery)they will come around fast to prevent a civil war.
We do not have to have our young people die for these 7th century barbarians.
A small number of Kurds are Christians some are pagan but vast majority are Muslim. Be even then most of the Kurds in Syria are secular and communist. The whole thing is a big mess and US troops don’t need to be there.
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"I have written approaching 6,000 columns since 1973," he said. "And if power is properly defined as the ability to achieve intended effects, I've got no power that I can see. The country resolutely refuses to do what I tell it to do!"
-- G. Will is sad.
Why all this concern? The world is full of places like Northern Syria and the Kurds are one of many groups trying to find their place in the world. The world is a mess and always has been, the United States getting involved most usually over the long does not change that. Deciding on your vote for president based on events happening in North Syria makes me wonder if you really know what is going on and when you bought into the neoconservative BS.
Oh please, Syria was a CIA/Clinton/Obama operation. Your vote won’t be missed.
The Obama Whitehouse created ISIS and destabilised Syria.
It looks like President Trump may be detaching the US from that insane, murderous policy.
a stable genius
Not Tired of WInning
Nukes were relocated out of there 2 1/2 years ago. Trump has always known that you cannot trust Turkey.
Yes: IIRC they were moved after the (possibly fake) coup attemp? Or maybe I have that wrong.
“WTF is the matter with you people?”
That is what we are saying about you.
The most widely practiced Kurdish religion is Islam.
Negotiations are always better when you’ve got credibility. When Trump talks, people listen.
Is it possible that some of the CIA protection was lost with the pullout of the troops?
No need to state this, it's evident.
IMPOSSIBLE! The corrupt media was hyping the “Trump Disaster” and his bad decision he was rethinking. Gayle King was almost weeping as she feigned her outrage.
And now they hang their heads in shame...because “Conservative Treehouse” readers far and wide know they were wrong./s
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