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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Enough of these Brooks Brothers suit wearing neocon “defense experts” sending American soldiers to their deaths and spending endless amounts of money from the national treasury!
Wapo can can my arse the worthless POS media outlet....
“...quite a few of those Kurds aligned with Syria are PPK and supported by Russia.”
PPK - 007’s trusty pistol.
PKK - Kurdistan Workers’ Party.
Max Boot is Jewish.
According to the media, only the Kurds are our allies.....LOL!
Let the NATO countries take over.......
It was. All Democrats are worthless lying filth.
Of course intelligent,rational people understand that as distasteful war is it is sometimes necessary. And an army without bullets isn't worth much.
OTOH many *irrational* people believe that war is *never* justified.
Hey Max, why don’t you march your sorry ass over and protect the Kurds - and take Mitt Romney, George Will, Ben Sasse, Jeff Flake, John Kasich and Bill Kristol since you’re all such foreign policy geniuses. We’ll call you bunch of pussies the Special Farces...
Max Boot should get a max boot up his a$$.
Give them some of the 1960’s Mattel toy M-16s.
Why wouldn't we be happy to see thousands and thousands of murderous moslem butchers murdering thousands and thousands of other murderous moslem butchers??
Max Boot never served in uniform.
Never put his life on the line.
Never stood a post.
Never risked his life for a fellow American, but is more than willing to have Americans lose their lives for his desires of complete hegemony over other nation states.
Never did jack squat except build degrees in foreign relations and pontificate on why we should be at war 24/7/365.
I was being sarcastic. I am thankful that several other posters straightened you out about your extremely nonsensical post, regarding POTUS.
Nah, I’m thinking they’d probably hurt themselves or just plain offend one another somehow pretending to be men...
Get lost NeverTrump quisling scumbag.
You’re wrong again.
Yes, Herr Boot, I AM happy now.
It was; the demonkkkRATs simply changed the historical narrative.
During Nam, China’s support of arms and materiel was crucial.
Morons at the post would have written the same story (orange man bad) whether Trump stayed or left.
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