Trump is still free to give indirect aid to the Kurds. There just won’t be “boots on the ground”.
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Because the Kurds aligned themselves with the illegal Invaders of my Gov’t, the minority Kurds should be given control of a large part of a Country of 23 million. And that large swath of land should have a lot of the illegally invaded Country”s ol and water resources, too?
I have said for years, the Kurds are stupid to trust the US.
Well, they are not only stupid, but delusional.
How many children of the Post Editorial Board are over there fighting? Asking for a friend.
The United States was supposed to be in Syria for 30 days, that was many years ago. We stayed and got deeper and deeper into battle with no aim in sight. When I arrived in Washington, ISIS was running rampant in the area. We quickly defeated 100% of the ISIS Caliphate,.....
....including capturing thousands of ISIS fighters, mostly from Europe. But Europe did not want them back, they said you keep them USA! I said NO, we did you a great favor and now you want us to hold them in U.S. prisons at tremendous cost. They are yours for trials. They.....
.....again said NO, thinking, as usual, that the U.S. is always the sucker, on NATO, on Trade, on everything. The Kurds fought with us, but were paid massive amounts of money and equipment to do so. They have been fighting Turkey for decades. I held off this fight for....
....almost 3 years, but it is time for us to get out of these ridiculous Endless Wars, many of them tribal, and bring our soldiers home. WE WILL FIGHT WHERE IT IS TO OUR BENEFIT, AND ONLY FIGHT TO WIN. Turkey, Europe, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Russia and the Kurds will now have to.....
...figure the situation out, and what they want to do with the captured ISIS fighters in their neighborhood. They all hate ISIS, have been enemies for years. We are 7000 miles away and will crush ISIS again if they come anywhere near us!
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
7:40 AM · Oct 7, 2019
When there are no good actors in the region, what’s the alternative.
We will no longer be the world's baby sitter.
After twenty years, if you still haven't learned to defend yourself, you deserve subservience.
WE did it the hard way once upon a time and true education IS actually learning something and not just parroting back the answers.
If we didnt have troops there now, would we have a good reason to send them?
I dont think so, and if not, then we should leave.
The reality is President Trump moved about 25 american special ops troops back and out of the way of an attack.
Most of the people trying to make political hay out of this have no clue what they are talking about and have never been to Turkey or anywhere near the Kurds.
OMG, we can't betray the Kurds even though half of them are outright Communists, a quarter of them are loyal to Iran, and the remaining quarter are in it for the $200 and three cartons of cigarettes they're paid every month.
When the Turks start gassing them bomb the Turks. Otherwise let the Turks, Iranians, Syrians, Iraqis, and Kurds finish this fight they've been having off and on, with the parties shifting who they're allied with from time to time, for at least the past thousand or so years.
Were talking 25 troops
As long as the area remains Islamic you are going to have plenty of endless warfare. The best thing the world could do is seal off the Islamic lands and stop trading with them . Let the Jihadi’s earn their Virgins by killing each other for being in the wrong sect.
Phasing out- yes. Abandoning the Kurds? Bad. Very bad. Even worse yo turn them
Over yo the tender mercies of the Turkish madman Erdogan. Hes very dangerous and nuts. He will try yo murder as many Kurds as he can. I think we need to make sure the Kurds have a defensible position - we shouldnt just set them up for the slaughter
We are in a very slow moving world war against Islam which could last a century or more. The more the jihadis take power and land overseas, the more they see the US as weak and ready for harvest and the more we will see the rise of Omars and Talibs here in the states until they achieve they victory they crave in years, decades or longer. All because people were “tired” of seeing US troops fighting overseas for years.
And so the US became just another failed Islamic state. War never changes it just moves at different speeds at different times. Islam never surrenders or grows tired.
Without the US, the whole lot of them would be dead a decade ago. Now Isis is gone. It’s up to the region to keep them gone. Back to the old status quo of never-ending eye-for-an-eye stone age tribal warfare for everybody. And anybody in congress whose heart bleeds over Trump wanting an end to US troop deaths, needs to suit up and go take their place.
OR...congress could finally pass an act authorizing war and we can have a draft instead of depleting our best and finest from flyover country.
Once again, it’s put up or shut up, Congress. The world is ending in 11-3/5 years anyway, right?
The left want a burning tire around Trumps neck and he wont have it.
If all these remnants of the prehistoric ages want to do is breed more sons to be slaughtered in their turf wars, let them slip into extinction. President Trump knows their routine and we will not be a part of their insanity.
For history minded fellow Freepers, the history of this area was seriously disrupted by the Sykes-Picot Treaty between France and Great Britain after WWI. The carving up of the Ottoman Empire created Jordan, Iraq, Syria and parts of Iran. Minimal attention was paid to historical boundaries, religious differences, tribal politics. As a result, the area has been in turmoil ever since and will probably never know an enduring peace.
We never should have gone in there and I celebrate that the President has the fortitude to get us out. If Russia wants to go in fine, it will be Afghanistan all over again for them.
Trump could find that abandoning one’s allies works both ways.