Posted on 10/09/2019 9:15:37 PM PDT by Meatspace
President Trump on Wednesday criticized the Kurds, saying they didn't help the United States during World War II and that they were only fighting for their land in Syria during the battle against ISIS.
“The Kurds are fighting for their land,” Trump told reporters at the White House during an event in the Roosevelt Room.
“And as somebody wrote in a very, very powerful article today, they didn’t help us in the second World War, they didn’t help us with Normandy as an example. They mentioned names of different battles. But they’re there to help us with their land and that’s a different thing.”
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No, you will never fight any battles, because you are a coward.
Ive been over there.
I have a spine.
You are a whiny little Loser who wants other people to go get you things you haven’t earned.
Get your butt over there and fight, if you want fighting to be done. Quit whining for someone else to do what you are too cowardly to do.
In the real world people don’t join the police to fight crime and people don’t join the fire department to fight fires.
Only a coward like you craps his panties every thread ridiculously insisting a civilian must go fight.
Btw coward panty crapper, Kerry was in the military too.
There was no fighting there, till now.
But I understand, your cowardice negates reality.
Every thread.
OMG you are Mister Ed for real...
What military unit did you serve in?
As a matter of fact, my position has always been that ground wars should only be fought after a declaration of war by congress, and the rules of engagement should always be what we employed in the second world war or the first gulf war. Punitive wars fought largely with air power and artillery are more appropriate responses in many cases, and no rebuilding is owed.
You want limited war with goofball rules of engagement, then don’t demand someone else go do that for you. Get you chicken shit couch potato ass over to the middle east and show us how it’s done.
There was no fighting there coward.
But facts don’t matter to a screaming coward making stuff up:
- You want limited war with goofball rules of engagement,
I am not demanding anyone do something for me that they didn’t already freely sign-up for, idiot panty crapper.
I served three tours, starting with 3rd Bn 4th Marine regiment in the early eighties. I was with a Tow company attached to second tanks during the First Gulf War.
The rules of engagement in the First Gulf War made some sense until the nonsense at the end. All the crap that went on in other places from the time I first enlisted until then? Not so much.
The rules of engagement of the First Gulf War is what gave us the Second Gulf War. Meaning not taking Saddam out.
But I see what you are about... your effort was noble but anyone serving now is a fool.
I spent 15 of my early adulthood as an ironworker in NYC.
Next time you cross a river build your own damn bridge.
15 years.
The left and its FBI CIA buddies are looking to get Trump embroiled in quicksand for the 2020 election, he sees it and will not have it. Let they kill each other and when the smoke clears we will deal with the victor
Ever since I can remember, anytime we do something in the Middle East, Afghanistan to Lebanon/Syria the Kurds come out on the bottom. GHWB really screwed them over when he quit warring on Iraq. The Kurds have a long history of ignoring borders. They are an example of what happens to open border minded countries.
No.
I have an obligation to stop fools from putting troops into wars with stupid rules of engagement.
An appropriate analogy for you would be if some bureaucratic agency mandated building bridges without using welding equipment, but the people who build the bridges would be personally liable if the bridges fail.
Obviously thats an imperfect analogy, since the bridge builders would not be dead. And since the bridge isn’t being built in the middle east or in Asia or in central america.
It has nothing to do with nobility and everything to do with having the methodology be actually capable of achieving something both worthwhile and desirable while also minimizing the cost in American lives.
They joined up with the Ottoman empire before that. When that was broken up, they were promised a country of their own by treaty but three years later, that got canceled by another treaty. Those treaties were drawn up by the UK and France. We had nothing to do with it. I don’t see how or why we’re helping them defend their land when they don’t have a land to defend. They’re spread out on a mountain range that spans four countries. The kurds started out as NW Iranians and spread North through the mountain range. It’s akin to defending the borders of the Appalachian people.
‘We need to focus on:
1) homeless veterans in our own country.
2) military families coping with the death or disabilities of their loved ones.
3) military men and women at risk of suicide. (The rates are off the chain.)”
ABSOLUTELY!!!!
It’s time we deal with our own problems first. Hmmm, isn’t that what the Left used to say...at least until Trump got elected.
The whole thing is a CIA boondoggle. We “sell them arms”. By that I mean we buy arms and give the arms to the Kurds. And we give them money. And in doing so they shoot the people we want shot. Of course those people would get shot anyway. Because the Kurds hate every government in the region. But the Kurds are for the Kurds. They fight the governments we support and the governments we don’t. We should stop adding guns to the middle east. Peace will happen when somebody thinks its in their best interest. Right now its in the best interest of the Kurds to keep receiving arms from us.
The average attention span of the MSM is about 5 to 7 days. By next Thursday this issue will fade away and another will send them into a frenzy.
- I have an obligation to stop fools from putting troops into wars with stupid rules of engagement.
You fought so I have the right to share my opinion on this forum, fool. So how about you put your big-boy pants on and stop shrieking like a Liberal.
I am not putting troops in wars. There was no fighting there.
Ironworking is a dangerous occupation.
So is policing and fire fighting.
I never knew anyone freely signing up with the US military to fight wars at home.
Great... Is there any coincidence that Syria... has pipelines and is how close to Ukraine?
At first I thought we should always stay, fight win. I am reading more about these Kurds and their deals with the highest bidder. They are not for democracy, so he made the right call. I do find it difficult to know every non Muslim in Syria is in serious trouble with turkey coming in to repopulate them with “refugees”.
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