Posted on 10/10/2019 9:49:06 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Who is this “Daddy” she references? I have NEVER heard of James McCain. Did he do something I should remember?
Excuse me. John McCain. WHO is he?
As Rand Paul points out, the Turks want to repatriate 2 million Syrians. If they don’t return to Syria, Turkey will send them to Europe, and we know some of those refugees will come to the USA. I’ve also read this morning that the US has no troops at all in the regions that Turkey will be occupying to provide a zone for the returning Syrians.
So, any conflict they have in that zone with Kurds must not be Kurds who are co-located with Americans.
Once again, typical knee-jerk reactions from those who just want to find anything to criticize Trump for.
‘Remind me when Meghan and Joy served in the armed forces’..
Oh the irony!
Maybe the EU can step in ,na why waste money
Pick up an M4 or shutup.
Not “The Europeans”. Specifically the British and the French. No other European country was involved in the Middle east post world war one
Some people will not think about what continual deployment rotations does to our troops and families. They’ll say that that’s what they signed up for. But nobody expects 20 straight years of conflict. You wish someone would fight to win or get out.
Nor does this constant coverage get looked at for the forces it takes out of the available category. A brigade here, a division there, and suddenly a 10 division Army is really, with rotation handoffs, down to 6 or 8.
Clinton was president elect in 1992, and started his commitment to arms transference prior to 1993.
Despite President-elect Bill Clinton’s November 1992 pledge to “review our arms sales policy and take it up with the other major sellers of the world as part of a long-term effort to reduce the proliferation of weapons of destruction in the hands of people who might use them in very destructive ways,” his administration has pursued a business-as-usual policy on arms sales which has, if anything, resulted in more aggressive government support for U.S. weapons exporting firms than they received under the Reagan and Bush administrations. Advocates of limiting arms sales based on human rights and arms control considerations have scored occasional victories, but in general the Clinton administration’s approach to arms sales has been “whatever the market will bear.” The ups and downs of U.S. arms exports in the Clinton era have had more to do with the availability of cash-paying customers than any consistent pattern of concern about the consequences of U.S. sales. This has certainly been the case with respect to Turkey, where the shelving of specific deals like a proposed 1994 sale of cluster bombs and a 1996 offer of Cobra attack helicopters have been counterbalanced by a steady flow of U.S. weaponry totaling nearly $4.9 billion during the first six years of the Clinton administration. U.S. sales to Turkey during the Clinton era have been more than four times as large as the entire value of U.S. arms transfers to Turkey during the 34 years from 1950 to 1983.
Those who have expressed concern about a “shadow embargo” on U.S. weapons transfers to Turkey can rest easy: deliveries of U.S. weaponry under the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) and Direct Commercial Sales (DCS) programs - the two largest channels of U.S. arms exports, topped $1 billion for the first time ever in FY 1997 (see Table I, below). U.S. arms transfers to Turkey during the Clinton administration have averaged out to over $800 million per year, making Turkey one of the largest recipients of U.S. arms during the 1990s, ranking right below such favored clients as Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, Israel, and Egypt. And despite the fact that the Clinton administration’s term of office has coincided with one of the most intense periods of Turkey’s war against the PKK, the volume of U.S. weaponry supplied to Turkey has been increasing, not diminishing over this period. Of the $10.5 billion in U.S. weaponry supplied to Turkey since the civil war in the southeast began in 1984, 47% of the shipments (measured by value) have occurred during the Clinton administration. This large and uninterrupted flow of armaments to the Turkish armed forces speaks far more loudly than the occasional State Department protest or the even rarer instances in which a system is withheld or a deal is delayed due to human rights concerns. For a description of current “deals in the works” between U.S. arms makers and the Turkish armed forces.
So it didn’t mean anything that Bush was president in 1992. Clinton started his bid to upgrade Turkey with weapons prior to his swearing in and when he could, immediately armed Turkey with weapons in tremendous amounts that the Turks could use on the Kurds, and did, killing unknown thousands.
rwood
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