I totally agree with President Trump’s decision. My reason: The ISIS caliphate destroyed the WW1 state borders between Syria and Iraq (maybe Jordan) and now that it is defeated there is a power vacuum as to how this territory is going to be divided up. The WW1 borders were imposed by European victors after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. I do not think that the USA stands to gain anything getting into a border war to redraw new maps. We have given the Kurds millions and trained their fighters. They still have our economic support and probably military should Turkey try to invade their homeland. The fight now is for the land inbetween Turkey, Iraq and the Kurds. They need to decide what that will be as only they can ultimately defend it. We have removed ISIS, now they need to settle this among themselves. The President has set parameters to protect the Kurds homeland. It is not in the USA’s interest to determine where the national borders should be. The Europeans did that and it caused the west to be involved in endless conflict. We should not fall into the same trap.
NATO membership does NOT confer upon Erdie a get-out-of-jail-free card in the event Turkey commits genocide.
The US will deal with the Turks in that event. And our so-called allies, too, if they try to stop the US.
Bush started the process of tearing Iraq apart and handing the South to Shia Iran. Obama/Clinton went whole hog and nearly finished the job with their "Arab Spring." But Putin stepped in b****-slapped the whole plan. The deep state, CIA wanted Trump to continue the stupidity, but he rightly is against it.
ISIS is a Saudis strategic tool. They don't have a proper Army that can go abroad and they only have oil as a modern strategic tool. So what else do they have? Their position as center of orthodox, Wahabbist Islam. They create Jihad groups to do their international dirty-work. They helped birth ISIS to take out Assad and check Iran and Hezbollah's power. Their opinion is - wants the job is done, they (and the their blue-eyed mercenaries in the USA) can clean up ISIS
The U.S. did not remove ISIS, Kurdish fighters with U.S. assistance did. You can’t defeat an enemy from the air unless you bomb everything that moves. That wasn’t an option. If President Trump had ordered to bomb everything that moved, he would have been removed from office with 80+ senators voting for his removal.
The U.S. used the Kurdish fighters to defeat ISIS and then threw (or has decided to throw) them to the lions (the Turks). That’s dishonest in the extreme. The U.S. has always known that the Turks hate the Kurds. If the U.S. has never wanted to guarantee the Syrian Kurds some sort of protection, it should not have used them.
Would you prefer if President Trump had sent U.S. ground troops (not only some special forces) against ISIS? Or would you prefer if the ISIS caliphate in Syria still existed?