Posted on 10/12/2019 6:30:36 PM PDT by Hojczyk
President Trump has answered these critics. The Kurds were engaged in a contractual relationship fighting the Islamic State (ISIS). They were well paid and equipped for their fighting, much like any mercenary group. Further, they were given three years to consolidate eastern Syria to feed their long-held desire to form an independent Kurdistan with other Kurds in Turkey, Iraq, and Iran. They failed.
The Kurds’ problem, and by association that of the U.S., is that regional powers like Turkey and to a lesser extent Iran and Syria have long held the Kurds in disdain. In fact, Turkey considers the Syrian Kurds to be allies of the Kurdistan Workers' Party or (PKK), which are Turkish Kurds and terrorists fighting for independence for the last 35 years.
Basically, the Kurds hijacked our fight with ISIS to feed their regional civil war to earn independence.
President Trump is aware of that agenda and is also trying to constrain American hawks who want to use our military willy-nilly across the world. Remember that Trump frequently said during his 2016 campaign that he wants to escape from endless wars and bring our fighters home.
Yes, much of the region is locked in tribal wars and they don’t want democracy. Further, and in part because of those tribal wars, we do not need to stay there another day, much less a century. Rather, let the regional players handle these problems and leave the larger security challenges like China and Russia to the United States.
Why must America get involved in every conflict around the world that is, unless you believe as some of the Trump critics do, that we are indeed the world’s policeman and like former American leaders, believe in promoting democracy at the pointy end of the bayonet?
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
You areg oing to get flamed, LOL!
The United States was supposed to be in Syria for 30 days, that was many years ago. We stayed and got deeper and deeper into battle with no aim in sight. When I arrived in Washington, ISIS was running rampant in the area. We quickly defeated 100% of the ISIS Caliphate,.....
....including capturing thousands of ISIS fighters, mostly from Europe. But Europe did not want them back, they said you keep them USA! I said “NO, we did you a great favor and now you want us to hold them in U.S. prisons at tremendous cost. They are yours for trials.” They.....
.....again said “NO,” thinking, as usual, that the U.S. is always the “sucker,” on NATO, on Trade, on everything. The Kurds fought with us, but were paid massive amounts of money and equipment to do so. They have been fighting Turkey for decades. I held off this fight for....
....almost 3 years, but it is time for us to get out of these ridiculous Endless Wars, many of them tribal, and bring our soldiers home. WE WILL FIGHT WHERE IT IS TO OUR BENEFIT, AND ONLY FIGHT TO WIN. Turkey, Europe, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Russia and the Kurds will now have to.....
...figure the situation out, and what they want to do with the captured ISIS fighters in their “neighborhood.” They all hate ISIS, have been enemies for years. We are 7000 miles away and will crush ISIS again if they come anywhere near us!
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
7:40 AM · Oct 7, 2019
The factual circumstances and history of the region wrt the Kurds is laid out here in a succinct manner.
We, the USA, contracted with the Kurds to fight ISIS with our assistance. They were PAID to assist in this. Paid very well. They accepted the contract.
Mission accomplished. Thanks guys. See ya!
Unless you want to take on Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria to carve out Kurdistan for them , we have no reason to be there.
We used to get paid for being the world’s policeman ( low cost o borrowing, trade deals, eic.).
But now it’s different.
Let Euope pay whomever they want to protect their ME oil, if they won’t pay us.
Great article, thanks for the post.
Somebody ping Peggy Noonan. In the immortal words of Canadian rocker, Randy Bachman, she needs educatin’. Go to school.
“Kurd first” brigade will go ballistic.
Kurd is one of the symbols of political correctness, just like Obama, Kneeling Kaepernick , LGBTQ.
Good article. Someone posted most of this the other day in a reply. Very insightful.
I’m in agreement with what LTC (ret) Maginnis has written.
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.....”Basically, the Kurds hijacked our fight with ISIS to feed their regional civil war to earn independence”.....
Well let’s say they were hoping for a larger payback in enlarging and retaining any land they acquired in the conflict which was all the warring parties ideal were Syria to be carved up as was considered along the way.
We’ve supported their desire for their own country for decades as it would be in our interest were that to happen....for whatever reasons none of the Arab states are interested in helping them achieve that. But they allow them to basically govern their own people to a point.
.....”Basically, the Kurds hijacked our fight with ISIS to feed their regional civil war to earn independence”.....
Well let’s say they were hoping for a larger payback in enlarging and retaining any land they acquired in the conflict which was all the warring parties ideal were Syria to be carved up as was considered along the way.
We’ve supported their desire for their own country for decades as it would be in our interest were that to happen....for whatever reasons none of the Arab states are interested in helping them achieve that. But they allow them to basically govern their own people to a point.
Bkmk Kurds
And even if you did carve out a Kurdistan, if they can’t establish one themselves then they won’t be able to defend it either.
I agree with the author
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