You betcha.
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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F Max Boot, Bill Krystal, George Will and all the other anti-Trump a$$holes who pose as conservatives but worship the state the same as Democrats. The only time I read their drivel is something like this and I know what it’s going to say before I read it. I hope they all go broke. shut up and go away.
So F*&k all you national socialistic news media who have taken those same lessons from the chief propagandist-Joe Goebbels.
Mad Max would rather have a radical Leftist Democrat as POTUS.
Absolutely it was. And the Soviets were still supplying the NVA.
Yes very. We should of NEVER been in Libya or Syria. There was NO vital US interest involved. Trump is cleaning up the messes 30 years of Globalist “Perpetual War” Lobby and the last 4 Presidents created.
I sure am happy.
This is a PR disaster. Could have been handled differently.
Interminably happy. Thanks for asking.
Yes, but, I decided that “fah q” works as well. :-)
Never met a Kurd. Never met a Syrian, for that matter. Never been to Syria, Kurdistan, wherever. Don’t care. Not my problem.
From the hysterics, I’m guessing Trump smartly dodged a trap.
It sure seems all of these never trumpet conservatives (let’s remember se cupp too) really just go to bed each night dreaming about how they can be a “reasonable” panelist on some filthy commie media platform.
Really Max? What is your plan to have made it an in & out operation? Yeah I didn't think so, it would have been exactly what the same here. You f'in moron. To answer your question, yes we are still happy. Now STFU idiot.
I’m happy. Not going to war with Turkey just strikes me as a pretty common sense decision.
Has Cindy Sheehan offered positive comment about Trump?
Remind me again why Obama (Nobel Peace Prize) attacked Libya, even after they had surrendered their nuclear and chemical weapons programs to the US, making them defenseless against a determined attack. Why there is any special calling for making war where there is no compelling need, from the US standpoint
You just can’t win with these dinks. A why even bother trying.
You betcha.
How so? Because people who hate Trump say it is? Who in Trump's MAGA coalition gives two sh*ts about the Kurds?
I think Trump strategy is to let the fire burn and maybe it will burn itself out.
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