The decision of President Donald Trump to give license to the Turkish Government to slaughter America’s Kurdish allies is a horrendous blunder, which will reverberate in history, and will, sadly, lead to ISIS attacks on Europe and the United States in the short and long run.
After having successfully neutralized ISIS, which formed in 2014, and with thousands of Kurdish troops in the Middle East sacrificing their lives in the effort, now we see our President abandoning them to slaughter, an action which will make it difficult for any nation or nationality group worldwide to ever trust America again.
Trump’s action also emboldens Vladimir Putin, as now Russia has more involvement in the Middle East than ever before, and it is assured that Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan are turning over in their graves at what Trump has done.
It also insures that Iran will have a greater role in the area, which Trump has been, previously motivated to prevent.
One would think that Israel should be very concerned, as Trump has made their security position much more difficult to insure.
Many Republicans in Congress have finally spoken up against this despicable action, more than any other issue that has arisen to alienate them, and it just further promotes the impeachment move against the President, which now seems much more assured to occur soon.
Syria confusion continues as Pompeo says Trump is ‘fully prepared’ to use military against Turkey.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/10/21/1894101/-Syria-confusion-continues-as-Pompeo-says-Trump-is-fully-prepared-to-use-military-against-Turkey
Not good. Canada Votes In Election That Could Be The End For Justin Trudeau
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/canada-votes-in-election-that-could-see-justin-trudeau-lose-power_n_5dadc3d0e4b0422422c91c62
Bernie or Biden or Elizabeth Warren or whatever Dem gets elected has a lot of s— to clean up.
Former Republican, that is the ultimate understatement! LOL 🙂
i asked this List this question last week, and got resounding silence: What, then, is Your alternative? Commit American and/or Israeli ground, naval, and air forces to protect the Kurds [and while we’re at it, execute another regime change in Syria like our massively successful ones in Iraq and Afghanistan]? Or what?
Obama got us involved in that little Charley Foxtrot, and now nobody knows how to get us out of it. Do they? Do You?
Crackpot Congress: The Hyper-Hypocrisy of the Syria Vote
by Maj. Danny Sjursen, USA (ret.)
We are through the looking glass, Alice. For years now I’ve lambasted the U.S. Congress for shirking it’s constitutionally mandated duty to actually declare and oversee America’s wars. Now, in a cruel joke of sorts, it has finally decided to do so, symbolically voting to condemn the president for pulling troops out of a Syrian war it never sanctioned in the first place. In a rare, bipartisan vote this past week, the House overwhelmingly approved H.J. Res. 77, “Opposing the decision to end certain United States efforts to prevent Turkish military operations against Syrian Kurdish forces in Northeast Syria.”
If ever proof was needed that Congress is inextricably linked to the military industrial complex and the forever warfare state, it’d have to be this bill. It demonstrates that the people’s representatives in Washington, normally asleep at the war-making wheel, will only weigh in to continue the nation’s endless wars. Their hypocrisy, it seems, knows no bounds. When a president (Obama, in this case) unilaterally sent American soldiers to combat in a new theater (Syria), Congress looked the other way. The same was true in Yemen, Libya, Iraq 3.0, and across West Africa. However, should a president (Trump) dare try end one of the plethora of endless wars, well that same Congress will assert itself in a New York minute. The lesson: true antiwar activists now know, once and for all, not to look to Capitol Hill for salvation…ever……. .
[Nor, obviously, is anything going to change about that Congress in 2020]
https://original.antiwar.com/Danny_Sjursen/2019/10/21/crackpot-congress-the-hyper-hypocrisy-of-the-syria-vote/
War is terrible but we don’t abandon our allies.