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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The MUZZYS are supposedly a religion made up of various clans,tribes and factions. They cannot agree among themselves and there is some 1400 tears of constant conflict including amongst themselves. Ol King Saud called for the HASHEMITE SCUM to leave his country...Hashemite scum is royal family of JORDAN today.
This is a major reason why they have never been able to for a nation of their own. We are best to cut our losses and leave.
I think that the left wants us to attack Egypt again. The coup attempt Obama financed ultimately failed.
Perhaps if their extradition request on Obama is still active we could go ahead and ship him to them.
MODRATELY
COMEY, HILLARY, LYNCH, RICE, OBAMA, WALKING FREE. F ON RULE OF LAW
WITHHOLDING MY CONCLUSION ON THE WLL TILL MORE PROGRESS. C-
SANCTUARY CITIES CREATING MORE US VICTIMS D-
And people will not vote for changing something that works!
After all, how much does any government appreciate our efforts? Britain? France? Viet Nam? China? Korea?
They want you to start chanting "Orange Man Bad" robotically.
Notice how there is a group of people coming out to protect this war. They never mentioned it before. But now this war, that few people knew about, is so important. Its the vast military complex that makes more money off the government during war time than all three of our car makers put together. The whining you hear from Mr. Boots and others both democrat and republican, is simply the PR firms and lobbyists of the weapons makers, screaming that their business is being cut back. And for what? A wall that Trump voters were promised. What! How dare Trump stop feeding weapons to the middle east war tribes and spend our tax dollars on a wall that the American people actually want.
Max Boot is really ignorant.
correction: two schiffs
Nope. Not that happy yet. Not enough Democreeps ib jail...yet.
Yes, I AM happy WaPo idiots.
You are only journalists - poor ones who love lying and have no morality.
You are at the bottom of the slime heap and Trump, travelling at light speed, would take years to descent to your level.
We absolutely, positively loathe you and will welcome the reintroduction of the guillotine following CW-II which you are causing.
Secure our borders, then we can talk about the Syria, Turkey, and Iraq shiff stain.
EU wants us there to protect their oil pipes. They can do it themselves but they refuse.
Kurds want us there to stop a 1500 year war they had with their navigators. Aww... none of our business.
The deep state wants to protect Israel against Islam. Again send in their EU troops. they refused.
Come you masters of war
You that build the big guns
You that build the death planes
You that build all the bombs
You that hide behind walls
You that hide behind desks
I just want you to know
I can see through your masks
You that never done nothin’
But build to destroy
You play with my world
Like it’s your little toy
You put a gun in my hand
And you hide from my eyes
And you turn and run farther
When the fast bullets fly
Like Judas of old
You lie and deceive
A world war can be won
You want me to believe
But I see through your eyes
And I see through your brain
Like I see through the water
That runs down my drain
You fasten all the triggers
For the others to fire
Then you sit back and watch
When the death count gets higher
You hide in your mansion
While the young people’s blood
Flows out of their bodies
And is buried in the mud
You’ve thrown the worst fear
That can ever be hurled
Fear to bring children
Into the world
For threatening my baby
Unborn and unnamed
You ain’t worth the blood
That runs in your veins
How much do I know
To talk out of turn
You might say that I’m young
You might say I’m unlearned
But there’s one thing I know
Though I’m younger than you
That even Jesus would never
Forgive what you do
Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good?
Will it buy you forgiveness
Do you think that it could?
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul
And I hope that you die
And your death will come soon
I’ll follow your casket
By the pale afternoon
And I’ll watch while you’re lowered
Down to your deathbed
And I’ll stand over your grave
‘Til I’m sure that you’re dead
Bob Dylan, Spring 1963
If Congress wants to execute a war, declare it.
“As I understand..the Syrian Kurds are PKK. “
Exactly. There are no “good guys” in that war.
Dittos
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IIRC Ford pled Congress to give support to the South Vietnamese. This dims said no. The north won without much effort after that.
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