Posted on 10/07/2019 3:16:40 PM PDT by rintintin
Top Republicans in Congress -- including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell -- criticized President Donald Trump over his decision to remove US troops from northern Syria as Turkey plans a military offensive there. McConnell urged Trump to reverse his move, saying "a precipitous withdrawal of US forces from Syria would only benefit Russia, Iran, and the Assad regime."
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We’re going to disengage from a conflict in Syria by bombing a NATO ally?
I never forget that Syria was Obama’s war , an extension of the Drive -By looting of Libya
Reinstate the draft. That’ll put a stop to this BS.
What a great President!
Turkey is no ally and should NOT be in NATO
Local headline
“President Trump defends decision to abandon Kurdish allies in Syria”
Can’t makr this up.
Which was a result after the catastrophe they engineered thru out Tunisia & Egypt.
term limits are needed.
These leaders don’t care what the rest of the country wants; to be out of these entanglements. People in the hinterlands are tired to sending their finest men to die in a place that won’t change and for people that don’t respect the effort.
When I was a child, I remember the media and the democrats fighting tooth and nail to get us out of Vietnam. Now that want us to stay in Syria.
The Kurds have been our most loyal ally against ISIS, they've directly provided intelligence and physical troops against them. None have fought harder than the Kurds.
To abandon them now (and again .... ) would send a VERY BAD signal to Turkey, Russia, China and ISIS - who has not been completely destroyed. There are thousands of ISIS prisoners in jails that are guarded by the Kurds. If we walk away from the Kurds now, who would want those thousands of ISIS prisoners to simply walk free once Turkey invades that part of Syria? They'll re-constitute and the war we thought we won would start anew.
I don't like war, and I don't like our troops being all over the place as much as the next guy. I'm simply stating the facts here. No way in hell we should abandon the Kurds.
To those who'll no doubt call me a war monger for this stance, I ask you: why do we still have troops in Germany? France? Italy? Spain? Poland? Elsewhere? You support them being there, why?
https://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=WA19J13&f=WU19J05
Here’s the link for others.
I’ll use it later today and respond.
“Turkey is no ally and should NOT be in NATO”
Tell that to Tucker Carlson.
Yep.... Tucker is misinformed on this one though he is generally spot on with the other issues.
By saying that Trump’s decision will only benefit Assad, the turtle just subtly admitted he is against the Assad “regime” and wants him gone. Remember when they told us they weren’t going to try to overthrow Assad? Remember when they said the troops would only be there until ISIS was destroyed?
Turtle is a scum.
Good point
Dont mind aircover but they can pay for that too. Now the left wants more wars frigging hypocrites.
To me, it’s simply a return to the status quo BEFORE Obama put Americans in the middle of a civil war for NO GOOD REASON.
Trump shook up the box, changed the variables, got people talking about this long lingering problem.
How dare he abandoned those communist Kurds.
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