Posted on 10/08/2019 10:01:33 AM PDT by xzins
I read about the staging of the departure in some article this morning.
There are about 1000 troops there. The first extraction is about 150 people. Wish I could remember the link, but I cannot.
Wait, wait...
Nope. Still don’t care.
“But Rand is OK letting the Turks move into Syria and massacre Kurds?”
Not our problem.
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If you're that upset it then contact your congress critter and demand that he/she/it declare war on Turkey. Or Syria. Or certain Kurds but not others. Do you even know?
Bet you won't.
It’s ironic, considering that a large number of Kurds assisted the Turks in slaughtering the Armenians.
The US has too many problems in our own country and, frankly, many Americans are beyond sick and tired of being the world’s policeman.
We have been helping the Kurds in Syria for 6 years. With our help, they have gained military and political control of a significant and contiguous portion of the country and have mostly made peace with Assad. Sure, they helped us fight ISIS - ON THEIR SOIL. They were the CLEAR benefactors of OUR support. How long do they expect us to stay? Decades? If Assad is willing to cede land to Turkey without a fight, are we now supposed to defend Syrian soil?
The Kurds should have realized when Trump began talking about quickly defeating ISIS and pulling our troops out of Syria, that their negotiating position was near it’s zenith. It was time to make deals and alliances. Having failed to act, they again look to us. Finally, we are saying ‘NO’.
The Opinion-For-Hire, Neocon Cavuto was all upset at Rand Paul during this interview.
Faux News has become the Paul Ryan News Channel.
and throw in being nation builders while you are at it.
I second this.
Like father Like Son.
BTW That is not a good thing in this case.
I have to agree with Rand. These are not our people...this is not our fight.
“Beware of foreign entanglements, “ our First President warned us!
Cavuto needs to retire...soon.
Rand has a point. Trump did the right thing.
Rand Paul, like his father, are neo-Isolationists who don’t know that there is a real, hostile and growing existential threat named Red China to the very existence of America.
Tucker Carlson is unfortunately joining this elite club of No-Nothings. Waiting or Mitt Romney to join the Surrender Monkeys of isolationism.
As Yogi Berra once said, “This is deja vu (1930’s) all over again”.
Should we keep 2 million combat troops ready to deploy anywhere in the world to “fight them there or fight them here?” Trump is beating China over the head with tariffs. They’ll come to their senses when they’re about to collapse.
Yep. Time to bring the troops home.
We are going to watch the slide of Syria into an orgy of genocidal violence. This violence will cross the border into Turkey because it will be between the Kurds who were our allies and who did the heavy lifting against Isis and Turkey our nominal NATO ally who did nothing for us over the last thirty years of fighting in the middle east. If there is going to be a war we should:
Reject Erdogen’s Turkey as an Islamic dictatorship similar to Iran and fully back the Kurds.
Result: Kurdistan becomes a sovereign state eating 1/3 of Turkey 1/3 of Syria and 1/3 of Iraq with a port on the Mediterranean and sharing a border with Iran. Iran with the same relationship the Kurds had with Turkey. Iran can handle a dysfunctional Iraq but how would they do with a unified much larger Kurdistan? That would be a win-win for the United States.
Key point to remember if you leave with the job half done you will have to go back and do it again. We only have one real true ally in the middle east (other than Israel)Kurdistan, make them into the dominant power in the middle east and we can leave behind a lasting peace.
So Rand is pro caliphate just like his father?
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