Posted on 10/24/2019 10:29:45 PM PDT by MacNaughton
The U.S. foreign policy establishment has gone into meltdown mode since President Trump announced last week a withdrawal of several dozen troops from a corridor in northern Syria. American forces had been there since 2014, joined with a Kurdish splinter group to fight the notorious Sunni Arab terrorist organization, the Islamic State (ISIS).
Trump made his decision after a phone call with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, but it was a long time coming. The Turks have been critical of U.S. support for an armed Kurdish organization they have considered the countrys most serious national security threat for five years. Trumps move then should be seen in the context of his efforts to undo Obama administration policies, particularly its initiative to tilt away from traditional U.S. allies, like Turkey, and toward the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The bipartisan anti-Trump din (amplified by prominent GOP lawmakers) denouncing the withdrawal has obscured not only Obamas disastrous 2014 decision to team with a terrorist organization at war with a NATO member but also basic facts about the ongoing conflict, the region, and the significant actors. The following ten questions are designed to illuminate the central issues for U.S. policy.
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Another excellent commentary .
10/15/2019, Victor Davis Hanson, "Kurdish, Syrian, and Turkish Ironies"
I don’t give a rats hind leg for Syria or the Kurds or any of these 7th. century barbarians and their sectarian blood feuds. I’m tired of seeing our young men and women dying and being maimed for life fighting endless wars in some Mid East craphole.
Same here.
There's something vaguely familiar about that face and that schnoz, although the guy below seems to have his eyebrows plucked:
Thanks for posting. I don’t think we were all completely aware of the good kurd, bad kurd. In fact.. it’s really the same problem with every ME association.
Great job by the prez.. i admit my knee jerk reaction was an automatic vietnam era response.
This is clearly not that.
Me too.
It's a start, and why would I care?
President Trump has a revolutionary idea about wars.
If we get into one, we should win, and we should know what winning means before we start.
My solution for the mooselimb problem is the final soution, which is brutal, but is the only way to stop radical mooselimbs.
Every thinking person knows this is correct, but few want to express those ideas; want proof, read the koran.
For over 1400 years, the mooselimbs have been on a jihad against "the infidel and will not stop until they are successful and rule the world or are wiped out.
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