A few days ago some US personnel were shot in the back by Afghanistan allies...this has been going on for years!
They will never be our allies....like the Russians and the Turks our eternal enemies.
25-50 special ops troops nothing more.
And we have gotten what, for all the blood and treasure?
Repeated kicks in the nads.
If the WAPO staff is so worried about the destabilization the withdrawal of 25 troops will cause, let them volunteer to go over and fight alongside the Kurds as mercenaries. No one is stopping them.
Every U.S. President since GHWB, has turned their backs on the Kurds. And I don’t think Carter’s CIA, before Iran’s revolution was that nice to them either.
Is this how republicans virtue signal?
It’s 50 troops!!! How is that betraying the Kurds???
As long as you have money to give, anyone in that part of the world will be your friend or ally. There is no common history, culture or loyalty that binds us with any of them. The Kurds are no more our “friends” than the Saudis.
All these neocons who want to put troops in harms way should pick up a gun and go fight.
Trump’s got a point, the Kurds and the Turks have been killing each other for hundreds of years. Why should Americans be drawn into that battle? Every time there is a fight we have to get involved while we can’t even defend our own borders. Let the UN (sic) do something for a change and send their troops to keep the peace. We can always provide the Kurds with money, and military equipment to defend themselves but no troops.
Trump is going to turn the GOP into the anti war, anti FBI and anti CIA party. John Kerry should be rooting for Trumps election in 2020. What a hoot
The issue boils down to an unwritten agreement with Erdogan.
There are Kurds and there are Kurds. Some Kurds are the incessant enemies of Turky. When those Kurds are under control, the other kurds can prosper.
They have been fighting for 2000 years. Why should we?
If the Kurds can’t make it without 50 troops, that’s saying something.
There is only 1,000 troops in Syria. Get over yourselves. The Kurds & Turks have been fighting long before ISIS. We also control the airspace.
Now I just heard 50 - 100 on the TV
The Kurds have had decades to defend themselves. It ain’t our job.
It’s not like we had a few divisions and an airbase there. Our presence was minimal, and our people didn’t do much direct fighting.
What Trump is doing here is like breaking an addiction. Yes there will be pain but you just have to do it.
Oh but the Kurds!
Yeah we get that.
Oh but this! And oh but that!
Right, we get it.
Trump is steering us out of our rut to a more sensible place. There will be some bumpy ground along the way but it’s worth it.
And ironically one upside is that once we’ve gone through this reset, we’ll be a more reliable ally. We’ll be less capricious and more predictable once our foreign policy is based squarely on our self interest.
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In the fwiw department, some Kurds are PPK, other Kurds are YPK. Some Kurds are Christian, some Kurds are Muslim.
This conflict didn’t start in 1978 like some claim. This shit has been going on for over a hundred years. Even before the Balfour agreement.
And guess what? No one, to include the U.N. or anyone else is going to fix it...
The Turks and Syrians are responsible for what happens there, not us. Let them fix it.
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