Trump says troop sacrifice meaningless
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Are you saying the President shouldn't be called out , especially when he does things in a haphazard manner ?
tsin-tao will call trump out every new moon, to make it seem like he's impartial and calls out "both sides" while "us leftists" never do.
first of all, what kind of a fake ass born again Christian are you? jesus fucking christ, watch your potty mouth. secondly, if the truth would have hurt, you and your ilk would have been bleeding anally right now.
I assure you, Obama, Clinton, whoever was in office on this one, I would say the same thing. Abandoning the people who did your dirty work is a huge mistake, to get 50 or 100 people out makes no sense. The addition of admitting he has a conflict of interest in Turkey, looks really bad, don't think it has anything to do with it, but looks really bad.
Kurdistan
was erased
from the world's maps
after World War I
when the Allied Powers
carved up the Middle East
and denied the Kurds a nation-state.
More than twenty million Kurds live in parts of Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Syria.
Throughout the 20th century
their struggles for political and cultural autonomy
were opposed by the region's countries
and the Kurds were often used as pawns in regional politics.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/saddam/kurds/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backstabbing_for_Beginners
The Kurds' plight most recently captured the world's attention in 1991 following the end of the Gulf War. Television around the world showed images of northern Iraq's Kurds fleeing Saddam Hussein's Iraq through the mountains of Turkey and Iran. Since the 1920s, negotiations between Iraq's Kurds and the government in Baghdad have always broken down over issues of Kurdish independence, and the Kurds' wish to control the oil-rich city of Kirkuk and to have their own militia.
In America's dealings with Saddam Hussein and Iraq, Iraq's Kurds have been a tragic side show. For decades, they looked to the U.S. for support in their struggle against Saddam's government. Washington's response has been classic realpolitik - using the Kurds when it wanted to hurt Saddam and then dropping them when their usefulness had run out. [See the chronology]
For this FRONTLINE report, "The Survival of Saddam," producer Greg Barker interviewed key Kurdish leaders and senior American officials who discuss the long, bitter relationship between the U.S. and the Kurds of northern Iraq. Here are those interviews:
They have some spare jumpsuits, parachutes, the whole kit. the recruiter's phone is listed.
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was erased
from the world's maps
after World War I
when the Allied Powers
carved up the Middle East
and denied the Kurds a nation-state.
More than twenty million Kurds live in parts of Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Syria.
Throughout the 20th century
their struggles for political and cultural autonomy
were opposed by the region's countries
and the Kurds were often used as pawns in regional politics.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/saddam/kurds/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backstabbing_for_Beginners
The Kurds' plight most recently captured the world's attention in 1991 following the end of the Gulf War. Television around the world showed images of northern Iraq's Kurds fleeing Saddam Hussein's Iraq through the mountains of Turkey and Iran. Since the 1920s, negotiations between Iraq's Kurds and the government in Baghdad have always broken down over issues of Kurdish independence, and the Kurds' wish to control the oil-rich city of Kirkuk and to have their own militia.
In America's dealings with Saddam Hussein and Iraq, Iraq's Kurds have been a tragic side show. For decades, they looked to the U.S. for support in their struggle against Saddam's government. Washington's response has been classic realpolitik - using the Kurds when it wanted to hurt Saddam and then dropping them when their usefulness had run out. [See the chronology]
For this FRONTLINE report, "The Survival of Saddam," producer Greg Barker interviewed key Kurdish leaders and senior American officials who discuss the long, bitter relationship between the U.S. and the Kurds of northern Iraq. Here are those interviews:
They have some spare jumpsuits, parachutes, the whole kit. the recruiter's phone is listed.
.
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now we know why he abandoned the Kurds.
mr constitutionman
you'd think he might read up on it in his spare time, or at least have his loyal staff draw up a position paper.
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So he can just ignore it? How often has he gone against his intelligence and military staff because he knows more than them. Remember he said he knows more about ISIS than anyone...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...uliani-client-facing-doj-charges?srnd=premium
Christ, the quality of coward recruits has gone down the shitter:
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/...concern-in-attacking-syrian-kurds-pompeo-says
Turkey had ‘legitimate security concern’ in attacking Syrian Kurds, Pompeo says
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is defending President Donald Trump’s withdrawal of American troops from northern Syria hours after Turkey launched military operations against Syrian Kurds who were fighting ISIS alongside U.S. troops.
“The Turks had a legitimate security concern,” Pompeo said, justifying the Turkish incursion into northern Syria days after U.S. troops left. “They have a terrorist threat to their south. We’ve been working to make sure that we did what we could do to prevent that terror threat from striking the people in Turkey, while trying to achieve what is in America’s best interest: the threat from radical Islamic terrorism emanating from Syria.”
US did not approve Turkey's Syria offensive, says Mike Pompeo
https://www.foxnews.com/world/trump-turkey-syria-kurdish-troops-military-assault
Trump calls Turkey assault on Syria a 'bad idea,' at least 7 civilians reported dead
President Trump called Turkey's ongoing military assault in Syria a "bad idea" Wednesday as activists and war monitor reported at least seven civilians killed in the strikes.
Trump's comments come hours after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced the launch of Operation Peace Spring -- a mission that will "neutralize terror threats against Turkey and lead to the establishment of a safe zone, facilitating the return of Syrian refugees to their homes," escalating the long-standing feud between Ankara and Kurdish forces.
Trump was heavily criticized throughout the week following his decision Sunday to pull American troops out of northern Syria, leaving the Kurdish forces -- who have been longtime U.S. allies in the fight against ISIS in Syria -- in peril. Ankara views the Syrian Kurdish forces as terrorists allied with a Kurdish insurgency within Turkey.
"The United States does not endorse this attack and has made it clear to Turkey that this operation is a bad idea," Trump said in a statement released by the White House. "Turkey has committed to protecting civilians, protecting religious minorities, including Christians, and ensuring no humanitarian crisis takes place—and we will hold them to this commitment."
"There are no American soldiers in the area," he added.
Christ, the quality of coward recruits has gone down the shitter:
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/...concern-in-attacking-syrian-kurds-pompeo-says
Turkey had ‘legitimate security concern’ in attacking Syrian Kurds, Pompeo says
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is defending President Donald Trump’s withdrawal of American troops from northern Syria hours after Turkey launched military operations against Syrian Kurds who were fighting ISIS alongside U.S. troops.
“The Turks had a legitimate security concern,” Pompeo said, justifying the Turkish incursion into northern Syria days after U.S. troops left. “They have a terrorist threat to their south. We’ve been working to make sure that we did what we could do to prevent that terror threat from striking the people in Turkey, while trying to achieve what is in America’s best interest: the threat from radical Islamic terrorism emanating from Syria.”
US did not approve Turkey's Syria offensive, says Mike Pompeo
https://www.foxnews.com/world/trump-turkey-syria-kurdish-troops-military-assault
Trump calls Turkey assault on Syria a 'bad idea,' at least 7 civilians reported dead
President Trump called Turkey's ongoing military assault in Syria a "bad idea" Wednesday as activists and war monitor reported at least seven civilians killed in the strikes.
Trump's comments come hours after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced the launch of Operation Peace Spring -- a mission that will "neutralize terror threats against Turkey and lead to the establishment of a safe zone, facilitating the return of Syrian refugees to their homes," escalating the long-standing feud between Ankara and Kurdish forces.
Trump was heavily criticized throughout the week following his decision Sunday to pull American troops out of northern Syria, leaving the Kurdish forces -- who have been longtime U.S. allies in the fight against ISIS in Syria -- in peril. Ankara views the Syrian Kurdish forces as terrorists allied with a Kurdish insurgency within Turkey.
"The United States does not endorse this attack and has made it clear to Turkey that this operation is a bad idea," Trump said in a statement released by the White House. "Turkey has committed to protecting civilians, protecting religious minorities, including Christians, and ensuring no humanitarian crisis takes place—and we will hold them to this commitment."
"There are no American soldiers in the area," he added.
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