As a concerned conservative, I am conservatively concerned that we are refusing to allow the tail to wag the dog in this obvious setup.
Ask those ex-military friends of yours why the hell the U.S. was in Syria in the first place.
“We must always have the backs of our allies”
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So they can screw us and consume our blood and treasure.
The EU could stop Erdie in his tracks, but they won’t.
If our so-called allies are aiding and abetting genocide, we have no biz getting involved in a military conflict.
There are better ways,economic ways, of dealing both with the EU and Turkey.
P.S. — No offense, but the introduction of the term “career soldiers” into our lexicon is a big reason why this country is in the sh!tter right now. If you read the Constitution, you see that this country was never intended to have a permanent standing army.
Watching the neocons squealing, Do I see a Romney/Haley ticket in the future.
This is one where I have to disagree with the president. The Kurds did more of the fighting than anyone else to defeat ISIS in that area, and we should keep the small number of troops in place to show that we continue to support them.
Bunch of liars
Which set it up so that the 2nd rate, 3rd tear back benchers can come in and act as the clean up clue
That’s right the clean up clue
They have sacrificed absolutely nothing over the last 20 years
It is beyond high time that they step up and do some of this dirty work themselves
It’s not as if we didn’t come in and clean the place up
Now, we’re just asking that they put a fresh coat of paint on it
Oh boo hoo
Great move by Trump....but terrible timing for it, just as he needs Senate allies to fight Pelosi and Schifty.
Flimsey Grahamnesty and Nikki Haley are not Trump allies, they are Bush League Republicans, still hell bent on turning the USA into North Mexico.
Saudi owned Legislators throw tantrum.
Northern Syria has become an autonomous democracy with Kurds, Christians, and Muslims all participating in the government. Once Turkey invades there will be a slaughter of both the Kurds and the Christians - both are strong allies of the US. While I support Trump on most things, this is not a good decision.
There are no effetive European allies except for maybe poland.
France Belgium, netherlands, Germany Spain etc are no AINO.....allies in name only
If Turkey gets kicked out of NATO, I don’t see a problem.
Remember that France on more than one occasion has not been a willing NATO member.
This is why all the military equipment we sell to marginally loyal allies should be equipped with a hidden remote disable device. It doesn’t have to be much, just a bit of code in the processors that permanently corrupts the operating system.
He got blasted by Fed Powell. Waiting for the retaliation tweet
from cnbc:
Fed Chair Powell has delivered a speech in which he quotes from a plaque emphasizing the central bank’s independence from politics: “The management of the central bank must be absolutely free from the dangers of control by politics and by private interests, singly or combined.”
The Turks have been killing Kurds (vise versa) for over a hundred years.
Just sayin
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>>but this doesn’t look good.<<
Looks awesome to me. Anyone who doesn’t like it can go join the Kurds and fight.
Syria, when we had no reason to be there in the first place?
The sort of "looks bad" you have in mind can't be worse than looking stupid for still being there.
The Kurds do have one choice no one talks about - make their peace with Assad. That way, the Russian-run Syrian air defense network will extend over Kurdish territory. The Israelis are competent enough to run rings around the Russians. The Turks are not. They will pay a massive price if they have to invade Syrian Kurdistan without air cover.