We used them and now are throwing them to the wolves. No one said we entered any deal with them about Turkey. I don't know why you think we did. It is our national interest to have nations know we won't run away when the job is done, leaving them to do some more dying.
We lost honor there. There's your national interest.
Liberals are a clear and present danger to our nation
Pick your enemies carefully.
BenjaminO (10-26-2019)
We don't owe the Kurds, or anyone in the Middle East for that matter, anything.
Tahuyaman (11-10-2019)
Just as a note of interest relating to the Turkish invasion.
From BBC news recently:
BBC coverage has revealed damning information about Turkey’s recent occupation of northern Syria. And it has smashed Turkish state propaganda to pieces.
Plunder on an unseen scale
As Turkish-backed forces seized the mostly Kurdish city of Afrin in northern Syria on 18 March, the BBC reported on the invaders’ looting of public and private property. But only on BBC Arabic did the scale of the looting become truly apparent.
During coverage on 20 March, BBC Arabic interviewed Rami Abdurrahman from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR). And Abdurrahman – whose organisation is normally seen as an opponent of the Assad regime – had strong words to say about the Turkish-backed anti-Assad forces which had just entered Afrin.
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Abdurrahman said:The plundering was done collectively. The plundering in Afrin was worse than the Daesh [Isis/Isil] assaults… They devoured everything. I haven’t seen the regime, nor Daesh, nor the fighting factions, plundering public and private property the way the pro-Turkey ‘Syrian National Army’ did in Afrin. Not only for the loot, but out of hatred against the Kurds.
Lummy (10-25-2019)
Call your state legislators and insist they approve the Article V convention of States to propose amendments.
I pledge allegiance to the Constitution as written and understood by this nation's founders, and to the Republic it created, an indivisible union of sovereign States, with liberty and justice for all.
Call your state legislators and insist they approve the Article V convention of States to propose amendments.
I pledge allegiance to the Constitution as written and understood by this nation's founders, and to the Republic it created, an indivisible union of sovereign States, with liberty and justice for all.
I would modify that to say that states act in the best interest of the their puppet masters, not necessarily their masses best interest. Either that or they miscalculate their vital interest a lot. For example Iraq 2.0.
We have proven that we cannot protect everyone even when we want to. For example the Kurds live between a rock and a hard place, nothing short of a permanent base would effect