Syrian Kurds are close to declaring Independence

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carlos86 said:
A leak from inside the DoD:

“Trump rejects the careful process of decision making that has long guided commanders in chief. Disdain for the process might be the defining trait of his leadership. Of course, no process can guarantee good decisions—history makes that clear—but eschewing the tools available to a president is choosing ignorance. What Trump’s supporters call “the deep state” is, in the world of national security—hardly a bastion of progressive politics—a vast reservoir of knowledge and global experience that presidents ignore at their peril.”
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Another leak. Go figure. Sabotage by another Trump hating DIM. At what point do you guys realize that all of this stuff is just Political Warfare?
 
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Before everyone hates on Trump, let's look at what we are getting here.

Sure we are basically making enemies out of the long-oppressed Kurds, the best guerrilla tacticians in the region by a mile.

AND we are also letting ISIS out of their prisons and hidey holes.

But Turkish totalitarian goon, Erdogan, likely gave Trump some incredible flattery already with more shipments of buttering up our depressed POTUS to come in the near future.

I mean, isn't it worth it?
 
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carlos86 said:
A leak from inside the DoD:

“Trump rejects the careful process of decision making that has long guided commanders in chief. Disdain for the process might be the defining trait of his leadership. Of course, no process can guarantee good decisions—history makes that clear—but eschewing the tools available to a president is choosing ignorance. What Trump’s supporters call “the deep state” is, in the world of national security—hardly a bastion of progressive politics—a vast reservoir of knowledge and global experience that presidents ignore at their peril.”
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Exactly right. It was incredibly foolish and showed very poor judgment by Trump to have done this without the benefit of people who actually know what they are talking about helping to guide him.

His rush to find something else to talk about besides the Ukraine is leading to a real disaster for a lot of people, people who fought beside us and thought we were a dependable friend. This should sicken anyone who believes in the honor and integrity of our word as a nation.

That is on him and on those who defend him. He needs to go ASAP, before he does something even more impulsive.
 
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Rifleman said:
Before everyone hates on Trump, let's look at what we are getting here.

Sure we are basically making enemies out of the long-oppressed Kurds, the best guerrilla tacticians in the region by a mile.

AND we are also letting ISIS out of their prisons and hidey holes.

But Turkish totalitarian goon, Erdogan, likely gave Trump some incredible flattery already with more shipments of buttering up our depressed POTUS to come in the near future.

I mean, isn't it worth it?
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I think the Houthis and Hezbollah would challenge that notion.
 
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PeaceCorpsVol said:
Christian Kurds are going to get slaughtered, how will "the moral majority" respond when that happens?
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Some variation of the following:

1) They were Arab, therefore not real Christians.
2) They were not American, therefore not real Christians.
3) I read it on a retweet of a blog of a Fox article from Breitbart that there is a report from someone that they were all really ISIS so it's ok.
 
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This is not a black hat white hat scenario..follow the below Twitter feed from a former security analyst in that region
 
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#341
Our President - the giant tool subservient to Putin.

That's your idiot boy there, Trumpsters. ******* our allies the Kurds.


Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), a close Trump ally, noted that “It’ll be hard to protect America without allies over there, and the Kurds have been good allies.” The Turks were not entering Syria to fight the Islamic State, Graham said on Fox & Friends on Wednesday morning. “They’re going in to kill the Kurds.”

Speaking of Trump, Graham said, “I hope he’s right. I don’t think so. I know that every military person has told him don’t do this.”

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) said the withdrawal of U.S. forces from northern Syria was having “sickening and predictable consequences.”

“The U.S. is abandoning our ally the Kurds, who fought ISIS on the ground and helped protect the U.S. homeland,” she said in a statement. “This decision aids America’s adversaries, Russia, Iran, and Turkey, and paves the way for a resurgence of ISIS.”
 
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hog88 said:
Do you think a few hundred special forces and their support elements would have stopped the Turks?
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Stopped as in they wouldn’t have risked the retaliation that harm to US Forces would have engendered from a competent administration and never would have attacked in the first place? Absolutely.
 
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We aren't bringing all our troops home just 50..and that's 50 soldiers that will never have to come back in a flag drapped over a coffin
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