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?
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.
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.
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
Cool. I supported, as most people here, the Bush doctrine of regime change and encouraging the growth of democracy in Muslim countries.
It did not turn out well. It was a costly mistake.
I’m not an isolationist, and I think we should honor our commitments, but are we supposed to open fire on the Turks? Technically they are our allies.
Getting involved in a land war in Asia is one of the two major blunders.
Very happy here!
So we have Turkey and the Kurds and the Russians and the Syrian rebels and the Syrian government and NATO and a prison filled with ISIS. And we are supposed to leave those 50 guys there. While everyone hates each other.
The CIA and weapon dealers love this war. And the US can only prolong it. We can’t stop it. We can’t make these people like each other. We need to let it play out. The CIA has to stop screwing with other countries. And the US weapon dealers need to stop providing weapons to every tribe they find. (By the way the US gives the tribes money to buy the weapons from our weapons makers).
To hell with ‘War, Inc.” Americans are done with profiteering pols and their slimey families profiting off their children dying and getting maimed in endless, pointless, overseas meat grinders.
I hope the Middle East fights amongst themselves until there is nobody left to fight.
Let’s see, we have a treaty with NATO and no treaty with Kurds. Turkey is not attacking the Iraqi Kurds. Some idiot said we should provide air cover. From where? Our airbase in Turkey?
For 8 years of Bush the DemocRATS screamed about getting us out of wars. 8 years of Obama and he promised to get us out of wars, but never did. He kept his base happy though.
Now Trump wants to finally bring our boys home, and the world is butt hurt.
What the hell do they want?
Never should have been there in the first place.
They are Muslims.
It would have only been a matter of time before they turned on us.................................
To answer the question - yes.
I will be even happier when all our troops (and support) is out of the Middle East.
The Middle East is ruled by tribalism. Every individual belongs to a group and there is no mixing of the groups.
Add to that how quickly they are offended and are willingly to kill over those offenses, it is a no win situation for anyone to get involved.
The only way to bring “peace” to the middle east is by use of overwhelming military force and pretty much kill any male between the age of 14 and 65. If you are not willing to do that then stay out and let them go ahead and fight it out. Sooner or later they will all be dead or a strongman will rule over all of them.
The Kurds are not always nice people but I have more sympathy for them than most anyone else in the region. I would like to see them get a homeland. I have a hard time believing that anything that the Turks, Iranians, Iraqis, and Syrians oppose can be a bad thing. However, it is not our fight. If the Turks attempt another Armenian genocide, this time on the Kurds, then maybe, but not just when they are warring factions.
Notice how no one is mentioning that quite a few of those Kurds aligned with Syria are PPK and supported by Russia.
After all, how much does any government appreciate our efforts? Britain? France? Viet Nam? China? Korea?
Max Boot is really ignorant.
Nope. Not that happy yet. Not enough Democreeps ib jail...yet.