October 10, 2019
I haven't really been able to form an opinion about Trump's removal of troops from Syria, and especially about his retreat in the face of a Turkish invasion. It strikes me as craven, but I doubt this was simply created from nothing.
I have always been of the opinion we should not have gone into Syria at all, that it was something guaranteed to turn the Russians into our enemies (which it has) and to strengthen their ties to China (which it did). Be that as it may, I also know you have to play the cards in your hand, not the ones you wish you had, not the discards. So, given the current circumstances, what are we to make of Trump's new, apparently craven policy?
John Tobin is a retired Army Colonel and Special Forces guy who heads up the Special Forces Association. Tobin had this to say on Facebook:
OK Folks, "Plickee†everybody is going nuts over the removal of about 100 US Troops from Prison Camp Guard duty in northeast Syria and to bring them and their support units home. Folks before you touch the Zippo to the gas soaked scalp, let us cut the BS from the Congressional Employees of the Military Industrial complex.
You can’t tell the players
without a scorecard, the map below shows the area occupied by the Kurds
over the centuries. Now if you look at the Syrian/Turkey/
Now there are four different Kurdish groups, we will work on two, the Peshmerga, our allies, over 60,000 strong well equipped, extremely well led, and superbly trained by the "Quiet Professionals†of the US Army Special Forces, and who President Trump will continue to supply and support, even with air cover, if necessary. They are allied with the Syrian Defense Force, and they will probably work together, surrendering Syrian land, if necessary, and moving East back to their homeland.
The other group, mostly concentrated in eastern and southeastern Turkey are the PKK, a Marxist/ Maoist group who have been on the US and world Terrorist list since at least the mid 1980s, they have been the PROVOS, Bader-Meinhof, Japanese Red Army, Black September like group of Turkey blowing up civilians, murdering etc. They are not our friends and allies. They are the Turkish target, oh and the Syrians are also in that area, so if Turks and Syrians murder each other off, don’t cry for me Argentina.
Now if the Congress want to do the right thing and establish a formidable ally, who would gladly work with our Israeli, Jordanian, Azerbijanis and other allies in the area, they will petition the UN, ok, you have to check the box, and help the Kurds establish, Kurdistan, and announce to all comers that they are our friends and allies, Iran would go berserk, but then again how many more times can they scream "Death to America.â€
Ike warned of the
"Military Industrial Complex†(MIC), he led millions of troops and
freed millions of people. Lindsay Graham, a USAFR JAG officer, and the
other Congresscitters
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