Posted on 12/25/2018 1:52:00 AM PST by familyop
ANKARA: France will not gain in any way by retaining forces to protect a Kurdish militia in Syria, Turkey's foreign minister said on Tuesday, after Paris announced it would maintain a presence despite an imminent US withdrawal. Washington's decision to pull out 2,000 of his ground forces from Syria has stunned most allies including France but was greeted with approval by Turkey, which will now have a freer rein to target Kurdish fighters from the US-backed People's Protection Units (YPG)...Critics say thousands of Daesh members are still in Syria and could pose a threat with some analysts concerned the withdrawal could lead to a resurgence of Daesh.
“Who even knew the French were operating in Syria before last week?”
First that I heard about it too. I wonder if it’s even true, and if true, under what authority are they operating - I know that we have no right to be there.
I appreciate the Kurds over the years as much as anyone. The benefit of their large gonads gets wiped out when you need to put 5,000 trip wire troops in the field so 100 of them can bivouac and fight.
OK, so what is your vision?
The Middle East is occupied by hundreds of millions of Arabs, Persians, and Turks. They practice an alien faith and have social and governmental structures which are foreign to us.
Do you think they can become liberal democrats if we only allow the sons of deplorables to continue to lose arms, legs, and their lives, indefinitely? Do you think they will become like us if we conquer the region with a non-existent 80-100 division army and rule as colonizers for 100 years?
What, exactly, do you think should be done?
Thank you for your service.
+1
If you need a bunch of Arabs sorted out, there's no one better than Johnny Turk.
And with a Caliph back in the Topkapi Palace, a couple of boomers in the Arabian Sea can have his GPS coordinates dialed in 24/7/365.
It's all good. Ottoman restoration is the answer.
The Turks want to rout the Kurds that we have been allied with. I would stay there.
Do Freepers know that about 70% of the Turks in Germany are actually ethnic Kurds? From the less civilized Eastern Turkey.
This was a mistake allowing Turkey to occupy part of Syria. Assad could have cleaned up what’s left of ISIS. And the Kurds would still be alive.
Like I said about the recent Saudi affair...It’s none of our business!!
I enjoyed your post! Merry Christmas!
Our men who are there are instructors and advisors. Men like that don’t like to leave faithful and loyal assets behind. It stays with them.
They won’t be leaving immediately or all at once anyway. As for their real purpose there, it should be obvious to all who’ve studied enough or been trained to give battle focused instruction. There’s much more to it than I.S., and the U.S. certainly has an important interest (not oil).
The more television zombies and drug zombies refuse to believe that any nation other than the U.S.A. would start a world war, the sooner it will happen again.
Daesh in Syria is a threat to who?
Assad. Russia. Iran.
Are we going to fight ISIS to help Assad Russia and Iran?
If not WTH are we there?
Questions Trump asked Bolton, and got no answer.
Regardless of what the Kurds think they were promised, that ain't gonna happen, they need to face realpolitik and make terms for some degree of autonomy and protection from Turk invasion, under Syrian and Iraqi sovereignty.
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