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Trump’s Syrian Maneuver Works – President Erdogan Asks for Negotiations With Kurds in Syria
CONSERVATIVE TREEHOUSE ^ | 10/14/2019 | SUNDANCE

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 ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Russia; Syria; US: Indiana
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To: spokeshave
ratbags = ratings

Sorry...need more coveffe

Posting at 5am from Aegean island, Greece,

41 posted on 10/14/2019 6:53:22 PM PDT by spokeshave (If anything, Trump is guilty of attempting to obstruct injustice.)
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To: House Atreides

Lights out and they already screw one another. Lawrence of Arabia pointed that out... American troops in Turkey know about their bath house boys.


42 posted on 10/14/2019 6:53:51 PM PDT by Jumper
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To: bitt

Trump knows what he is doing ALWAYS..people who underestimate him end up with sh*t on their faces


43 posted on 10/14/2019 6:55:01 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Veto!

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.
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You would flush our last chance to keep the United States of America because some Kurds get killed?


44 posted on 10/14/2019 6:55:24 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Flick Lives

"Last I heard, I thought the Turks were bombing Kentucky."


Right.   (It was right after they hit that Wild Turkey Kentucky Bourbon pretty hard...)


       

45 posted on 10/14/2019 6:55:46 PM PDT by Songcraft
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To: spokeshave
ratbags

Obviously it should be ratings, but spellcheck just invented a word I never saw before. Sounds like a novel insult to use on the leftists.

46 posted on 10/14/2019 6:58:13 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Obscured by Clods)
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To: hardspunned

Lindsey Graham so dead wrong.
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He’s dead wrong about amnesty, too.
We really do have to replace Bush League Republicans.


47 posted on 10/14/2019 6:58:17 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Innovative

they made it to the 30 mile post and screamed uncle. They should have stopped at 20 then Trump wouldn’t be so pissed off, they are going to have to leave and now SDF guns are going back in trange of Turkey when they weren’t before


48 posted on 10/14/2019 6:58:44 PM PDT by dila813 (Voting for Trump to Punish Trumpets!me tking public being de)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

My vote is symbolic. I live in WA, a totally liberal state.

It’s my conscience I have to live with.


49 posted on 10/14/2019 6:59:12 PM PDT by Veto! (Political Correctness Offends Me)
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To: bitt
We have stupid FReepers who think Trump pulling out was nothing but bad for the terrorist, communist, Muslim Kurds.

It looks like Trump has done better for these terrible Kurds than they ever dreamed possible, short of losing US soldier lives, which these FReepers were happy to do to prove we loved the terrorist, communist, Muslim Kurds.

50 posted on 10/14/2019 7:03:04 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: bitt

51 posted on 10/14/2019 7:05:28 PM PDT by Ken H (2019 => The House of Representin')
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To: Veto!
Idiotic thinking from you.

The Kurds do not deserve any further special help from us.

It’s amazing how you are happy to throw soldiers’ lives at the problem, but skeptical about any non-military solution from Trump to the extent you won’t vote for him if any terrorist, communist Kurds are hurt.

You are a warmonger on behalf of non-US citizens.

52 posted on 10/14/2019 7:07:54 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: shelterguy; Veto!

They sound like “Veto!”


53 posted on 10/14/2019 7:08:58 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: ConservativeMind

I heard that Kurds were Christians and our allies. Your comment says they are far from it. You may be correct. How do you know this?


54 posted on 10/14/2019 7:13:03 PM PDT by Veto! (Political Correctness Offends Me)
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To: bitt

Bishop to G5
checkmate


55 posted on 10/14/2019 7:13:56 PM PDT by bunkerhill7
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To: Veto!

But. Kurds are Christians.

No, they aren’t. They are primarily Muslims.

Read a bit:

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/most-folks-who-have-never-been-to-iraq-think-of-the-kurds-as-some-noble-non-islamic-ally-well-theyre-a-bit-better-than-the-typical-islamic-but-not-a-hell-of-a-lot/

From Wikipedia:

“A majority of Kurds belong to the Shafi‘i school of Sunni Islam, but significant numbers practise Shia Islam and Alevism, while some are adherents of Yarsanism, Yazidism, Zoroastrianism and Christianity.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurds

Also from Wikipedia (“Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria“):

“Some of the criticism against the region has included opposition to conscription, and claims of authoritarianism, Kurdification, ban on critical journalists, the promotion of an anti-capitalist ideology, and influence from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (commonly known as PKK).”

“Most ethnic Kurdish and Arab people in Northern Syria adhere to Sunni Islam...”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rojava


56 posted on 10/14/2019 7:14:26 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: McGruff

LOL

Love him. What a great president! :)


57 posted on 10/14/2019 7:15:51 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: Veto!
I’m going to vote for someone else

Who needs “supporters” like you?

58 posted on 10/14/2019 7:19:08 PM PDT by M. Thatcher
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To: ConservativeMind

Thank you very much. I appreciate your taking my questions seriously. Some here just shot me in the foot. And I’ve been here since 1997, entirely serious and need answers because I don’t claim to know everything. .


59 posted on 10/14/2019 7:22:35 PM PDT by Veto! (Political Correctness Offends Me)
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To: Veto!

not sure what large loss by Kurds is reason not to vote for Trump, perhaps another dim that will get us into another needless war, or keep us in wars for another couple of decades, name a valid alternative, Kurds would shoot us in the back if it furthered their needs, we used them when we needed and they used us when they needed. Perhaps we should go everywhere in the world and save everyone who might be the enemy of my enemy at this moment. As a vet who has deployed too many times to the ME, they would knife us in the back when we no longer serve their purpose, and I dread the day having to do another ceremony for a fallen service member who died doing their duty. Sad thing is to “try” and solve an unsolvable situation, yes I am bitter


60 posted on 10/14/2019 7:23:35 PM PDT by blitz88
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