commando Posted December 20, 2018 Share Posted December 20, 2018 13 minutes ago, LumberJackSker said: Except for israel the kurds are probably the most pro america group of people in the middle east and trump is going to sit back and watch as an Islamist slaughters them. i am old enough to remember when tin horn dictators like edgoron didn't tell the united states to get the f#&% out of their way. our past presidents told them to go to hell if they tried that s#!t....trump says...ok.... Link to comment
Moiraine Posted December 21, 2018 Share Posted December 21, 2018 2 hours ago, LumberJackSker said: Except for israel the kurds are probably the most pro america group of people in the middle east and trump is going to sit back and watch as an Islamist slaughters them. All the people in that region are the same to him - not White. 2 Link to comment
Danny Bateman Posted December 21, 2018 Share Posted December 21, 2018 This quote about Mattis was pretty amazing. 1 Link to comment
Moiraine Posted December 21, 2018 Share Posted December 21, 2018 Stephen Miller: Quote Are we supposed to stay in Syria for generation after generation spilling American blood? I know every life is important, but 3 U.S. soldiers have died there. Also, Trump should stop pretending he cares about Israel. Link to comment
Danny Bateman Posted December 21, 2018 Share Posted December 21, 2018 Miller is ignorant, nativist little vermin. What a creep. I love how all these Trump people give really give a sh#t about the thousands upon thousands of civilians who have been wantonly slaughtered by Putin and Assad in Syria. Or the Kurds who've had our backs over there. Creepy little weirdos like Miller don't understand protecting them or returning favors to those who are owed them. Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted January 6, 2019 Author Share Posted January 6, 2019 Wait.....I thought we beat ISIS. Link to comment
commando Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 20 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said: Wait.....I thought we beat ISIS. does this turn back the clock on the mattis resignation? he resigned because he disagreed with the syrian pullout....now we aren't leaving? Link to comment
jsneb83 Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 1 hour ago, commando said: does this turn back the clock on the mattis resignation? he resigned because he disagreed with the syrian pullout....now we aren't leaving? Maybe this was his way of getting rid of him Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted January 11, 2019 Author Share Posted January 11, 2019 He's has such an amazingly talented foreign policy mind. Link to comment
LumberJackSker Posted January 11, 2019 Share Posted January 11, 2019 5 hours ago, BigRedBuster said: He's has such an amazingly talented foreign policy mind. Eventually something is going to happen again in the middle east and we will need the kurds help whether its in syria, iraq or iran. How many times can we abandon them and still expect them to help. Desert storm, allowing iraq to use its iran backed militias to attack them and now allowing the turks to probably slaughter them. The next time something happens they may not be there. Link to comment
Danny Bateman Posted January 12, 2019 Share Posted January 12, 2019 6 hours ago, LumberJackSker said: Eventually something is going to happen again in the middle east and we will need the kurds help whether its in syria, iraq or iran. How many times can we abandon them and still expect them to help. Desert storm, allowing iraq to use its iran backed militias to attack them and now allowing the turks to probably slaughter them. The next time something happens they may not be there. I was thinking about this today. It doesn't only look bad to the Kurds, although it sucks that they aided us and now we're going to bail on them (again). The rest of the world is watching that and probably wondering if sticking your neck out for the U.S. around the world is worth it. This is the erosion of U.S. soft power in real time. Nobody is going to want to help this erratic, unpredictable administration out around the globe. Let alone all the conflicting messages and incoherent mess this apparent withdrawal has produced. It not only looks like we're bailing on an ally, it looks like the people running our government aren't on the same page. Link to comment
LumberJackSker Posted January 12, 2019 Share Posted January 12, 2019 41 minutes ago, Clifford Franklin said: I was thinking about this today. It doesn't only look bad to the Kurds, although it sucks that they aided us and now we're going to bail on them (again). The rest of the world is watching that and probably wondering if sticking your neck out for the U.S. around the world is worth it. This is the erosion of U.S. soft power in real time. Nobody is going to want to help this erratic, unpredictable administration out around the globe. Let alone all the conflicting messages and incoherent mess this apparent withdrawal has produced. It not only looks like we're bailing on an ally, it looks like the people running our government aren't on the same page. Putin/Russia won in syria. A few years ago assad looked like he would get over thrown but russia, iran and Hezbollah stuck with him and the us and the west did almost nothing even when he used chemical weapons against civilians. Obama's red line debacle and now trump doing the old cut and run has done a lot of damage. Russia now looks like a more reliable ally than the US. Link to comment
StPaulHusker Posted January 14, 2019 Share Posted January 14, 2019 The president has said that he will economically devastate Turkey if they do anything to the Kurds. Which is a direct threat to a NATO ally. But at this point, he doesn't really care. Link to comment
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