"We are placating Erdogan, who is taking Turkey down the road to Islamic dictatorship, inevitably putting it in the ranks of the terrorists," Rohrabacher stated."
I agreee. And the same should be true toward our brave loyal Kurdish friends (allies) in Syria.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Remember the Armenian Christians (men, women, girls, boys) who were crucified by the thousands in those early (and soon forgotten) days at the opening of WWI? The Kurdish troops advanced into the Balkens and took their Ottoman orders to heart conducting mass genocide upon innocents.
I nominate you two to go over there yourselves, and don’t forget to bring your own money and weapons...thanks.
Yup, better to arm the resistance over there keeping terrorists on their toes vs. a scheming non busy terrorist
UNFORTUNATELY I think Mattis et al from the deep state inside the Trump administration are preparing to abandon the Kurds now that THEY have done the real grunt work in northeastern Syria against ISIS. Makes me sick and Dana is but one voice among a deafening silence on the issue in Washington D.C.
I too, agree - good for Dana. He was our congressman when we lived in CA and always did a good job. Hope he can rattle enough rockets to get someone’s attention on this. It’s disgusting to think we’d betray the Kurds. The obozo administration promised them all kinds of help that never materialized...Wasn’t it Tillerson who was reported to have said a week ago that we’d stop supporting them? That’s sickening!
Here is why Trump won’t do this. If we try to arm the Kurds more than we have and push a Kurdish State, it will cause Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran to unite and turn away from the US completely. Turkey will leave NATO over this. Iraq will expel all Americans over this. Kurdistan will lose any war. This is a classic example of neocon foreign policy that will backfire like the Iraq war, Libya war and Syria did.
Notice who is pushing the “we must support the Kurds.” It’s the same old neocons.
Simple fact of the matter is were it not for the Kurds ISIS would now control most of Syria rather than the defeated
and battered hulk they now are. Particularly when Obama was President.The Kurds, not the Turks, Russians, Iranians, Iraqi, Syrians or the Obama administration, stopped ISIS in their tracks at the outset and reversed their gains in Syria.
I don’t know if we should even be over there.
But if we support anyone, is should be the Kurds.
What’s your opinion on the recent (October 2019) happenings, namely Turkey invading Kurdish Syria?