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http://Trump Endorses Turkish Military Operation in Syria, Shifting U.S. Policy https://nyti.ms/2obcMSC
This is an American betrayal to the Kurds by the US of the highest caliber. The Pentagon was not in favor of this very ill conceived idea.
This is an American betrayal to the Kurds by the US of the highest caliber. The Pentagon was not in favor of this very ill conceived idea.
Posted from Trump
Office of the President (POTUS)
Syria
Turkey
Posted 5 y ago
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CPT Lawrence Cable
MSG Stan Hutchison - Not a fan of hanging out there anymore either. It's another place that there are no solutions that we would be willing to enforce and it is time to call it a game.
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MSG Stan Hutchison
CPT Lawrence Cable - I would support that if done properly. Not sure what that would be though.
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CPT Lawrence Cable
MSG Stan Hutchison - I think the best we could hope for in the region would be to leave with some form of relatively stable central government, but I think that would have to include the what is still called the Taliban in some fashion. I don't think we should abandon the area like we did when the Russians pulled out, but a big selling point for the Taliban is war against the Infidel. Keep the international aid mission in the area to improve the economy and infrastructure, let the Afghans take over the military and policing mission. I wouldn't even have a problem with continuing to provide training support, but we could do that with private contractors if we chose.
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Are you proposing we get into a shooting war with Turkey, a NATO ally, and intervene AGAIN in Syria, where no one really wants our help. The Kurds are about the only group in the Middle East that I have much sympathy, but they knew from the beginning that Turkey would not allow Turkish Kurdistan to secede. To look at the long term history of the Kurds, they tended to support which ever side was on top at that moment and haven't been known for their long term loyalty.
Having US troops on the ground with a shooting war going being Syria and Turkey is not a good idea and if Turkey does invade Syria, there is more than a chance that it will involve both Iran and Israel.
Having US troops on the ground with a shooting war going being Syria and Turkey is not a good idea and if Turkey does invade Syria, there is more than a chance that it will involve both Iran and Israel.
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SSG Robert Mark Odom
So what happened to America being the lead for protecting democracy in the world?
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CPT Lawrence Cable
SSG Robert Mark Odom - Are the Kurds anymore Democratic than the rest of the Middle East? I'm tired of being the World Police. We have been involved in some kind of conflict in the Middle East since 1979 and I don't see it getting any better. We need to look after America's best interest and quit getting people killed in some shithole where there isn't a solution, or at least one that we would contemplate, to the crisis. We would be a lot better off minding our own business and be an example to the world rather than trying to shove it down the throats of some third world tribesman that is barely in the twenty first century.
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This is a nightmare. I have been stationed in Turkey and seen first hand the treatment of the Kurds by the Turks.
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SSG Robert Mark Odom
Unfortunately if anything happens at all to the Kurds by the Turks America will be held fully responsible.
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SGT Wanda Shepherd
I was stationed in Izmir and not familiar with the history of the Kurds and Turks. I know the Turks attempted genocide of the Armenians which is largely forgotten about.
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