MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 08, 2019 7:37 pm
DocBarrister wrote: ↑Tue Oct 08, 2019 7:04 pm
This should put to rest any idiotic notion that Erdogan “blindsided” or “forced” Trump into allowing Turkey to invade Syria. Trump, who has significant personal commercial interests in Turkey, ENDORSED Turkey’s invasion.
WASHINGTON — In a major shift in United States military policy in Syria, the White House said on Sunday that President Trump had given his endorsement for a Turkish military operation that would sweep away American-backed Kurdish forces near the border in Syria.
Turkey considers the Kurdish forces to be a terrorist insurgency, and has long sought to end American support for the group.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/07/us/p ... syria.html
Trump betrayed the Kurds, and he did it willingly, probably to protect his commercial interests in Turkey.
DocBarrister
The latter bit about Trump's motivation is speculative, but the rest appears to be confirmed.
And he did it without warning the Kurds, without consultation from his own advisors, and without consultation of our allies.
Which is why R's are going nuts, not just D's.
But Salty, true to form, says this is the right move by Trump...gee, what does Russia think?
Stop trying to speak for me. You're not qualified. Nowhere have I said that Trump is making the right move. I'm telling you why he's doing what he's doing. We still don't know what Trump has committed to, other than pulling back 50 exposed troops that shouldn't be on hostage tripwire duty, when our mission there is to fight ISIS. I'm not for pulling out all our troops (yet). I've objected to these joint patrols as a misuse of our troops since they were started.
We've been hearing that Trump was pulling out all our troops, Turkey has started air strikes, Kurds are being slaughtered.
As usual, it's shown to be hysterical BS. Do you think Erdogan is going to start "slaughtering Kurds" a month before he visits DC to get his F-35 program back on track ? Get a grip, try putting your political prejudice aside & don't sucker for every agenda driven leak.