Posted on 10/07/2019 8:02:08 AM PDT by RummyChick
Donald Trump issued a stern defense on Monday of his decision to withdraw American forces from parts of northern Syria, a move that will make way for a Turkish invasion in the region and likely doom the Kurdish fighters who the U.S. has been aiding for years.
Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan announced the launch of his long-planned offensive on Monday. Trump justified his decision in a five-part 247-word tweetstorm, framing it as part of a larger policy of pulling U.S. troops out of 'ridiculous Endless Wars' and insisting that the ISIS caliphate is now '100%' defeated.
'WE WILL FIGHT WHERE IT IS TO OUR BENEFIT, AND ONLY FIGHT TO WIN, the U.S. president wrote in allcaps.
He fumed at European allies' refusal to accept the repatriation of their citizens who U.S. forces have captured as fighters for the ISIS terror army.
And he appeared unmoved by international concerns that a power vacuum will favor an ISIS resurgence and a Kurdish slaughter.
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‘WE WILL FIGHT WHERE IT IS TO OUR BENEFIT, AND ONLY FIGHT TO WIN,...
And leave Kurds screwed every single time we’re done using them :)
***And he appeared unmoved by international concerns that a power vacuum will favor an ISIS resurgence and a Kurdish slaughter.***
Uhn, huh...
Nothing stopping you crom exercising your morality and sending your young men to die in aid to your moral imperative, which is always contrived anyway and more than a bit uttered with equivocation and qualification
Because you just have to have it both ways.
You have been driving down the middle of the road for over a century and there is eventually going to be a pretty serious and deadly wreck...
A 20 year war is not long enough for Linda.
There is NO “new” Flimsey Grahamnesty.
He is still the same McCainiac that wants us involved in every war everywhere and he still wants to give the Democrats a permanent majority with amnesty for illegal aliens.
Let’s hope he gets US out of Afghanistan soon too.
Opium is old school, PRC fentenal is new school and Trump is working on that with none of our military wastefully in harms way:-)
And one helluva lot richer than they ever dreamed possible as well as better armed.
What, exactly, do we have to show for all of that? Oh, wait. I know. Dead, injured, maimed, disfigured, and traumatized to the point of suicide troops.
But, hey, as long as you feel warm and fuzzy, that’s all I care about.
We have no business being in Syria. No more Middle East wars!!!
Get ready for China, stop chasing squirrels.
I’m glad I’m an American and not a Kurd.
The President is absolutely correct. And whoever ordered the troops out of the protection ring in Syria.... ARE THE SAME people who GHWBush listened to!
The Turks (who are Sunni muzzies, and NOT loyal Nato members, flirting with the russkies, and the lunacy of Erdogan... who garners and lifts his sagging internal numbers in turkey by moving on the “bugaboo” Kurds... the Kurds who did MOST Of the removing of the ISIS Syrian “rebels” (ie. the SAME ISIS army the US/McCain/Clinton/obamaumao CREATED with their Benghazi gun running operation.. to the “moderate rebels” WHO WERE AND ARE alQaeda/ISIS (never forget obamamaumao always called the ISIL... the L for the “Levant”— the old word for..Turkey!”).
So now we have the Bolton leftovers, Graham (who is implicated in some fashion with his mil-industrial pals of perpetual war and arms shipments— implicated and held hostage until McCain died— with the Benghazi shipments. Flippity Floppety Linda Graham— now firing off against trump, and also on the FISA warrant Deep State crap he MUST be exposable on— he’s up for re-election too) all to these clowns trying to perpetuate the Middle East wars— not letting the Saudis come down hard on Turkey and HELP the Kurds. Oh no— we have to be there 18 years like Afghanistan, perpetuating the British “hand-off” of utter failure.. to the US.
Just a view— what say y’all? We are getting closer to the IG FISA report FWIW— and the intel people have gotten a look for “redaction” to Protect their own a@@es, and are ramping up to hysterical levels... the media siren SONGS of propaganda against Trump on every level-— as the Ukraine comes out clearly (under Poroshenko.. the Russian former puppet Pres and his lackeys) as the “CUTOUT” for the Dossier creation, the MONEY laundering (to Biden, especially to Clinton— and likely the laundry where the missing State Department BILLIONS, unaccounted for—went. Went to Ukraine for “kicking back” to the Clinton Foundation and any other political op they needed, including the a@@ clowns at see eye eh and the Muzzie convert chief there— John Brennan. Evil personified, and operating inside the US!!).
The neocons want us everywhere forever.
The hell with the troops, damn the torpedoes.
Linnie and the other girly men can go buy themselves bigger Tonka Trucks. This CIC is done sacrificing our troops on the altar of their gender chaos.
No one knows what is going on here. What does, “The US will remove it’s troops from the immediate area”.
What is “the immediate area”. Will they still maintain a nearby presence, ready to re engage if it becomes necessary. Will we still be supplying the Kurd’s with weapons? What about advisers?
I always believed the Kurd’s are ferocious fighters and can well take care of themselves.
Yep, no more of these endless police actions. If there has to be military force applied, use it with extreme prejudice. ie. bring real war.
I’d love to see Linda’s stock portfolio. I bet most of it is in the military industrial complex.
It’s gonna be great when the dems start screaming bloody ass murder about President Trump’s *premature withdrawal * from war.
If any watched closely the war in Syria ...the area in Syria was taken over by the Kurds....it was NOT theirs to begin with.... They were just hoping they could claim it.
If any watched closely the war in Syria ...the area in Syria was taken over by the Kurds....it was NOT theirs to begin with.... They were just hoping they could claim it.
I completely agree with mostly disengaging from the ME and especially from Afghanistan. But. You don’t make promises to, and use, an entire people group and then walk away and let them get slaughtered. Especially by the Turks.
I’m fine with leaving. As long as the Turks understand that if they engage in their national pastime (genocide) we will destroy the bulk of their military capability.
As far as ‘getting ready for China’. We do not now, and never will have, the ability to take on China directly. With the help of the rest of Asia, AND RUSSIA, we can, at best, contain them.
Trump didn’t start “using them” and is there a good way to end it?
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