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Turkish President Erdogan 'threw Trump's Syria letter in bin'
BBC World News ^ | Oct 16 ,2019 | BBC World News

Posted on 10/17/2019 3:18:53 AM PDT by LeoWindhorse

President Erdogan received the letter, thoroughly rejected it and put it in the bin.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Russia; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: erdogan; europeanunion; fileunderg; kurdistan; nato; pig; putinsbuttboys; receptayyiperdogan; rop; russia; syria; tds; trashcan; trumpletter; trumpnato; turkey; ukraine
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The U.S. needs to develop a weapon system that ( if we have not already) is space-based and individual human targetable. Some sort of particle beam or high-intensity laser. Something that will simply put a small hole in the top of the head of the target and fry their brain. Call it Global Opponent Destroyer. Don't announce it, just develop and deploy it where appropriate . We could use it to rid this planet of a lot of it's worst vermin.
1 posted on 10/17/2019 3:18:53 AM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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The U.S. needs to develop a weapon system that ( if we have not already) is space-based and individual human targetable. Some sort of particle beam or high-intensity laser. Something that will simply put a small hole in the top of the head of the target and fry their brain.

Maybe it could also pop a whole houseful of popcorn...


2 posted on 10/17/2019 3:25:21 AM PDT by Yo-Yo ( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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I’m serious. We need to be able to remotely cap the leadership of the bad guys. With a technology that NO ONE else has.


3 posted on 10/17/2019 3:27:08 AM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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Even if he didn’t literally toss it in the trash, he invaded Syria the same day. Pretty much the same message...


4 posted on 10/17/2019 3:28:15 AM PDT by ETCM
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To: LeoWindhorse

Call it Global Opponent Destroyer …
I would give it a different name, because having the acronym “GOD” is blasphemous.
5 posted on 10/17/2019 3:28:42 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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whatever ;^)


6 posted on 10/17/2019 3:30:42 AM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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In the bottom of that bin is also his economy.


7 posted on 10/17/2019 3:34:31 AM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant.)
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The good news is that Americans are learning what a tyrant Erdogan is , if only because they want to smear our President.
8 posted on 10/17/2019 3:37:13 AM PDT by Nateman (If the left is not screaming, you are doing it wrong. I)
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Invasions take some time to organize, if he went in the next day he had begun preparations long before.


9 posted on 10/17/2019 3:44:34 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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The good news is that Americans are learning what a tyrant Erdogan is , if only because they want to smear our President.

Do you really think anyone was under any illusions to the contrary prior to this?

10 posted on 10/17/2019 3:53:09 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: LeoWindhorse
This would work, but pukes like Leahy would spill the beans:
11 posted on 10/17/2019 3:56:04 AM PDT by Phil DiBasquette
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I think most Americans use to say ‘Erdogan who?’ before it became an opportunity to smear the President.


12 posted on 10/17/2019 3:57:18 AM PDT by Nateman (If the left is not screaming, you are doing it wrong. I)
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Yes, we all know you don’t order an invasion after lunch and execute it by dinner. Everyone knew the invasion was coming. My point was that the letter gave him no pause. He disregarded it. Kinda like tossing it in the trash, figuratively.


13 posted on 10/17/2019 4:00:36 AM PDT by ETCM
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I think most Americans use to say ‘Erdogan who?’ before it became an opportunity to smear the President.

He's been in the news for quite a while with that failed coup, his rigged elections, his jailing of that missionary, his tilt towards Muslim fundamentalism, and with the murder of Kashoggi on his turf. He's no surprise to anyone who has kept track of the news.

14 posted on 10/17/2019 4:15:20 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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Even if he didn’t literally toss it in the trash, he invaded Syria the same day. Pretty much the same message...

One way of looking at it, is Trump is a boorish fool, who should never have talked to another President that way, and who precipitated a war between Turkey and Syria.

Another way of looking at it, is Trump is a genius master of human psychology, and goaded Erdogan into an action which will ultimately destroy the Turkish Islamic State.

I'm leaning towards the latter.

15 posted on 10/17/2019 4:19:28 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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I saw nothing unusual about the letter. Cut all the BS that diplomats talk.


16 posted on 10/17/2019 4:26:29 AM PDT by Destroyer Sailor (Revenge is a dish best served cold.)
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did they expect him to frame it and hang it on the wall???

he read it, that's all that matters

17 posted on 10/17/2019 4:39:36 AM PDT by Chode (Send bachelors, and come heavily armed!)
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I know the world court says that it is illegal to target heads of state, but it has been said that Ronald Reagan told the Chinese leadership that we had the technology to know where every one of them was at any given time, and in case of conflict that they would be the first, and possibly the only ones targeted. China stayed relatively docile while Reagan was President. Then when pussified democrats got power, China started flexing their muscle again. They have not stopped yet, except that Trump is making them rethink their future actions. Interesting times, eh?


18 posted on 10/17/2019 4:54:34 AM PDT by noname (to all liberal/communists-were you born stupid or do you have to work at it to stay that way?)
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Or, as demonstrated in the letter, Trump knew Erdogan had already committed to invade and the letter Trump included a letter Trump received from the Kurdish general Mazloum, who must also already have been aware of what the Turks were planning and contained unprecedented concessions to the Turks, which has not been released. It was a last ditch effort by Trump and Mazloum to deter, not goad, Erdogan. It is unclear if the Kurd concessions were a result of US pressure to appease Erdogan or if the offer was an idea of the Kurds and Trump merely decided to back the Kurdish carrot with the threat of the stick.
Trump did not need to goad Turkey into invading, Turkey had already decided to do so... the Kurds clearly knew it was coming and decided to offer an olive branch before Trump wrote the letter.


19 posted on 10/17/2019 5:01:22 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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Man, the post office got that letter delivered fast. Trump must have sent it Priority Mail.


20 posted on 10/17/2019 5:22:14 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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