Posted on Oct 25, 2019
White House weighing options that would keep 500 troops in Syria: report
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They can’t be serious. 500 troops and tanks to protect some other country’s oul fields? Yeah whoever The Hill is talking to at the White House needs to tell them to stop vaping the bad stuff.
White House weighing options that would keep 500 troops in Syria: report
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Syria
Kurds
Foreign Policy
Posted 6 y ago
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So we are sending the tanks to keep ISIS from taking the oil fields. The ISIS that Trump said he defeated 100% so there was no reason to stay in Syria. And then he mentions that the Kurds helped us take the oil fields from ISIS in the first place, the Kurds who are now fleeing for their lives after being convinced to dismantle their defensive positions along the border with Turkey because we told them we would handle Turkey so that they wouldn't attack the Kurds. Got it.
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MAJ James Woods
Yep. For some reason Trump thinks those oil fields belong to the US. If they belonged to ISIS and the Kurds took it from them then they belong to the Kurds. But then the Turks took it from the Kurds. Hmmm there must be a logical reason why Trump thinks any oil field in N Syria belongs to the US and should be guarded by US troops. Maybe that phone call transcript on the classified server may tell us.
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I think we've done the best we can to help countries in the Middle East. With the exception of protecting US interests in the region, I believe a gradual withdrawl in total may be in order. I happen to hold the equally unpopular opinion that we should have left Saddam Hussein alone because he was essentially controlling a hornets nest. Just my two cents.
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MAJ James Woods
Yep had it been a deliberate withdrawal with sufficient planning with the Kurds that didn’t leave them helpless I don’t think this would’ve faced so much scrutiny. The Kurdish allies that helped us fight, kill, capture and secure ISIS fighters and made sacrifices for US deserved better.
As for Saddam we should’ve deposed him during Desert Storm when we had the opportunity. Might’ve avoided further atrocities but I get it that our mission was liberation of Kuwait and not regime change in Iraq.
As for Saddam we should’ve deposed him during Desert Storm when we had the opportunity. Might’ve avoided further atrocities but I get it that our mission was liberation of Kuwait and not regime change in Iraq.
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