Posted on Oct 12, 2019
'This is just chaos': Retired Marine general condemns Trump's decision to stand down as Turkey...
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Allen said Kurdish forces, on whom the US relied heavily in the fight against ISIS, would face significant losses against the Turkish military. About 11,000 members of the Kurdish-majority Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) died fighting ISIS, according to some estimates, and thousands of ISIS fighters are held in prisons and camps guarded by Kurdish forces.
Turkey claims the Kurdish People's Protection Units, or YPG, and the SDF are threats with links to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), a Turkey-based group that Ankara, Turkey's capital, and the US, among others, have designated as a terrorist organization.
"Once you push into an area like this, once you start using indirect fire, once you start drawing a lot of blood from an organization that has just been fighting now for a couple of years against the most abhorrent terrorist organization on the planet, the Islamic State, these people were bucking down to begin the process of the stabilization of that entire region," Allen said.
Turkey claims the Kurdish People's Protection Units, or YPG, and the SDF are threats with links to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), a Turkey-based group that Ankara, Turkey's capital, and the US, among others, have designated as a terrorist organization.
"Once you push into an area like this, once you start using indirect fire, once you start drawing a lot of blood from an organization that has just been fighting now for a couple of years against the most abhorrent terrorist organization on the planet, the Islamic State, these people were bucking down to begin the process of the stabilization of that entire region," Allen said.
'This is just chaos': Retired Marine general condemns Trump's decision to stand down as Turkey...
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Many Presidents have gone into office having promised to get us out of one engagement or another. Most of them have learned that it turns out it is not that easy and have to forget that promise in the interest of national security. In this case, this President either hasn't learned or doesn't care. This is not the first time the Kurds have been abandoned by western governments. They were even promised their own country, Kurdistan. Never happened. In this case, we truly can't be trusted
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