Posted on 10/14/2019 7:52:37 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
President Trump isnt 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 thats 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 Trumps 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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Currently it is at universally awesome level.
Well yes, thanks for asking a-hole.
Very happy Max.
Max since you are such a war monger, then go over there and fight.
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.
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As opposed to one of those cost-free wars in the Middle East?
Nope. Just another excuse for the hysteric Never Trumper to mindlessly whine.
What is the vital US Security interest involved in the US giving the Kurds a US backed military shield to hide behind while they continue their separatists attacks on the internationally recognized Governments of Iran, Iraq and Turkey?
So were just suppose to endlessly continue the Emperor of Earth polices of the last 4 US Presidents? We suppose to write a blank check payable in US blood and treasure to every oppressed group everywhere?
Frankly I prefer Trumps return to the pre Bush family traditional US policy. Bush the 1st made a massive mistake ending our Over the Horizon posture in the ME. By failing to decisively win Desert Storm in 1991 Bush locked us in a full body hug with the Middle East tar-baby ever since.
It is time the USA start figuring out how to pry ourselves off that mess. Like the Border Crisis Congresss complete lack of any responsible action over Obama/Clinton/Biden/McCains misguided adventure in Syria required the President to take action.
Now that we are a energy exporter, for the 1st time since the 1960s, our national security interest in protecting the flow of oil out of the ME is greatly reduced. It is time we start re-thinking all our national polices. However, Congress has shown they will not act unless forced to it by the Executive.
Oh really? SOLD OUT? It is a very good decision.
Furthermore..Back when Obastard was POTUS and this whole GD thing started I explained to my former friend who was the congressman from MICH 1 why we MUST NOT, get involved over in that area.
The biggest reason was that Russia has their ONLY warm water naval port there and that we would come face to face with the Russian navy in that region.
He couldnt see anything beyond his nose and eventually had a conservative rating under 40%. Ran as a constitutionalist to boot.
They are all lying Sons a B....
Monsieur Boot looks as if someone pee'd in his cornflakes this morning.
He doesn't look very happy, does he?
But to answer his question, I would say that Trump supporters, all 64+ million of them, are very happy with THEIR President!
Washington compost. What does anyone expect?
It’s basically a war over there, why in the world would America want to get pulled into that?
“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.”
Our book says—Do not kill..Do not bear false witness,Love thy neighbor
Their book—Lies are fine if promote Islam..Kill thy neighbor if he does not convert
In the meantime, each have huge armies. It's a friggin' civil war....and not our war. These are not the same Iraqi Kurds that we defended under Saddam.
This is a PR disaster. Could have been handled differently.
Isnt everything WaComPost produces a PR disaster??
That has to be what youre talking about.
If not, I see that youve been properly schooled, otherwise.
Not our fight.
If Max Boot wants to go help them carve out Kurdistan from Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Syria he’s more than welcome to do that.
Yeah, I’m happy.
It was, Max Boot is a liar.
And DEMONRATS (and their allies, like you, Mr. Boot) have forgotten about the Fall of Saigon in 1975, in which DEMONRATS in Congress voted to stab our allies the South Vietnamese in the back. Funny how times change, ain't it?
Ecstatic
Trump is getting 1000x more attacks for this than the kenyan did for leading the young Yazidi girls to their ISIS rape camps.
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