Posted on 10/20/2019 2:22:33 PM PDT by bitt
The controversy over President Trump’s pullout on the Turkish–Syrian border will settle down quickly. It is another useful debunking of ancient shibboleths and decrepit truisms, like the long-impregnable encrustation of false wisdom that moving the U.S embassy in Israel to Jerusalem would unleash hell upon the whole Middle East.
There are about 35 million Kurds, approximately half of them in Turkey, where they make up about a fifth of Turkey’s population. A century ago almost all the Kurds had been in the Ottoman Empire, which the Allied powers broke up after World War I, a foolish decision that is on all fours with the destruction of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
The result was the creation of four patched-together artificial states that have all now disintegrated: Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Iraq, and Syria. They are not alike in other respects, of course. The Czechs and Slovenians (Yugoslavia) have flourished; the Slovaks and Croatians, and more recently the Serbs, have got by adequately well; and the rest of the remnants of Yugoslavia are struggling, but they are all living paradisiacal monuments to the foresight of western statesmen compared to the current fate of the populations of Syria and Iraq.
No American adult needs an update on what a debacle post-Saddam Iraq has become. The Iranians are the principal influence in the 60% of the population that is Shiite, precisely the opposite of what was intended when the United States invaded Iraq under President George W. Bush. The dispossessed Sunni 20% of Iraqis around Baghdad are being thoroughly misgoverned, even by Saddam’s standards, and the Kurds in the north, where most of the oil is, should be building a modern and autonomous Kurdistan that could attract and accommodate mistreated Kurds from Turkey, Iran, and Syria — an authentic Kurdish homeland.
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O.K.. and your point, at THIS POINT IN TIME is?
All of that is true.
So why is it not obviously clear to a whole planet that Obama was trying to install the Muslim Brotherhood in the entire Middle East, and create the caliphate.
Well, forty years on, they still don’t acknowledge the Caliphate Carter installed in Iran. Don’t expect them to jump on the truth of Obama’s efforts anytime soon.
Obama had those ‘death to Americans’ Terrorists in the White House for consultation purposes too. AND he installed them on certain government panels.
That guy was playing for several “other” teams.
One day, when the truth is spoken on the MSM channels, (not holding my breath) President Trump will be lauded as the greatest President in modern history. If Trump were treated the same way as the worst President in US history (obama) then things could be even better but since the activists who call themselves journalists won’t do that; we can still enjoy all the winning despite their nonsense.
Doing the job Anti-Americans and neocons won’t do. Making peace and getting our troops out of harms way while creating an economy with the lowest unemployment rate in the USA for 50 years. I’d say that’s a lot more than anyone else has done and he’s only had less than 3 years so far.
The only people not happy are the war machine people. No wars; no profits.
Of course all the TDS afflicted people hate it because it makes Trump look good.
Ping
Huh? How did you EVER get that from my comments? Wow. You sure know how to read what YOU want to read.
Bad idea. A major reason for our growing economy is the incredible growth in shale drilling. Shutting it all down and allowing it to become dormant in order to drain oil reserves from the Middle East (at much higher cost) makes zero sense.
You may be right.
I want welders and pipefitters employed in the USA, not Saudi Arabia.
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