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Posted on 10/14/2019 7:52:37 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
President Trump isn’t the first American leader to turn his back on foreign friends who were counting on U.S. assistance: President Dwight D. Eisenhower did it in Hungary in 1956; President John F. Kennedy in Cuba in 1961; and President Gerald Ford in South Vietnam in 1975. But no previous chief executive has ever sold out the United States’ allies as nonchalantly and unnecessarily as Trump has done with the Syrian Kurds.
At least with Eisenhower, Kennedy and Ford, there was a good reason they failed to come to the aid of freedom fighters: Doing so would have embroiled the United States in costly conflicts. Trump and his apologists would like to pretend that’s also the case today — that Trump pulled U.S. troops out of northern Syria to avoid a war with Turkey. But there is scant chance that Turkish troops would have invaded northern Syria if U.S. troops were standing in the way. That is why President Recep Tayyip Erdogan asked Trump to move the U.S. forces — and Trump, for reasons that remain mysterious, obliged. (Trump himself admitted in 2015 that “I have a little conflict of interest” because of two Trump Towers in Istanbul.)
The consequences of the American pullout are proving to be every bit as catastrophic as most observers — and Trump’s own aides — had feared. On “Face the Nation” on Sunday, Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper said that ever since coming to office about two months ago, he had been urging the Turks not to invade Syria. “We cited all the reasons that are now playing out,” he said. “The biggest being the likely release of ISIS fighters from these camps and prisons, not just that we see a humanitarian crisis emerging.”
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Which ally were we supposed to attack?
Eff you, Max Boot.
Yup. Next question.
And when Christians were being slaughtered or sent out to the desert, where were this reports?
All choices are bad.
Get out.
I am thrilled. Syria is 100% Obama’s mess. 100%. He was an idiot to support the radical Islamic uprising in Syria to try to take out Assad. Pure idiocy.
Yep, I am thrilled not to be the world’s policeman. I’m not advocating to become isolationist, but to be more judicial in our endless/countless wars. I am sick of them. Let Russia fix Syria. They are Russia’s ally. We are not.
Eff all warmonger idiots.
USA goes to war = bad.
USA stays out of war = bad
Hey Washington Post, our beloved Constitution gives to CONGRESS the power to declare war.
Tell your Democrap allies to declare war or get off the pot.
I thought it was a Democrat-controlled Congress that betrayed the Vietnamese, not President Ford.
I am very happy, glad to see you neo con trash crying in your soup every day. Endless wars that your pussy ass or elite children never have to fight and die in. Go eff yourself.
Why are we so concerned with the border of Syria when none of you liberal and neo con trash don’t care about American borders?
Screw off
And yes, again, I am very happy. I love winning
Well, since there's no wall and no National Roundup and Deportation Force, I wouldn't exactly say I was "happy".
But, since the President continues to countersignal and work against neocon traitors like Max Boot, William Kristol, and others too numerous to name, I am reasonably content.
Fighting foreign wars on behalf of other nations while damaging our own nation and wasting precious young lives in the bargain?
Never again.
“Are you happy now, Trump supporters?”
Yeah?
We done here?
And when Christians were being slaughtered or sent out to the desert, where were this reports?
Too busy writing articles of how awesome Obama is
But no previous chief executive has ever sold out the United States’ allies
But the Muslim SELLING Out AMERICA and Giving Iran Nukes was just fine and dandy?
I’m good, thanks for asking. There has never been any American interests at stake in Syria. Never should have been there in the first place. It is of no strategic interest to the US. The Kurds are just another mooselimb faction, none of which are on our side. If we get involved with one, they are just using us while it is convenient.
Funny thing...no examples of how obamaturned his back on allies. Egypt comes to mind. Israel, Taiwan, and the breaking of the Libya arrangement. These unbiased journalists are cherry picking to make their morality point.
Yes Max RINO Boot. Your opinions and drivel are worthless!
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