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I wouldn't hold your breath waiting for that to happen any time soon.

I'm not about to hold my breath waiting for OUR national government to do ANYTHING that is actually in the best interests of the great majority of people in this country @txradioguy.  They will, however, do EVERYTHING possible to preserve the swamp that is Washington exactly as it is for as long as they can.
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I'm not about to hold my breath waiting for OUR national government to do ANYTHING that is actually in the best interests of the great majority of people in this country @txradioguy.  They will, however, do EVERYTHING possible to preserve the swamp that is Washington exactly as it is for as long as they can.

Yeah...sadly they will do just that.
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And for those on here that say we should expel Turkey from NATO if we don't like what they are doing...well I've been doing some research on that.

There are no specific provisions for expelling a NATO member.

Hate to ruin a talking point...but that's the facts.
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Our presence there was not meant to engage in endless wars, it was there to deter further warfare.
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Okay.  So your "alliance" defines an alliance of convenience ... one to fight ISIS.  And when this fight is done, so are we. 

Period.

Thanks for clarifying @TomSea

Well, the fight didn't end and Brett McGurk wrote:

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Both Obama and Trump rejected that option, and in May 2017, Trump decided to directly arm the YPG to ensure that it could take Raqqa from ISIS.

American diplomats were able to manage the resulting tensions with Turkey thanks to the U.S. military’s presence in Syria.

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/syria/2019-04-16/hard-truths-syria

So, according to McGurk, contrary to the narrative that this alliance all formed under Obama, Trump made the decision to directly arm the YPG to take Raqqa from ISIS. So, there is some responsibility there.

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There are no specific provisions for expelling a NATO member.


That’s true, but a collective effort by the other members to marginalize them would probably make them leave, on their own, similar to what France did in the 60s. Problem is, the leader of the strongest NATO member says the organization is or isn’t obsolete, on any given day. Good luck forming a coalition.
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That’s true, but a collective effort by the other members to marginalize them would probably make them leave, on their own, similar to what France did in the 60s. Problem is, the leader of the strongest NATO member says the organization is or isn’t obsolete, on any given day. Good luck forming a coalition.

And most of the EU that are also NATO members are too scared of their own shadow to stand up to Erdogan. Which is why he’s able to get away with the threat he made today.
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And for those on here that say we should expel Turkey from NATO if we don't like what they are doing...well I've been doing some research on that.

There are no specific provisions for expelling a NATO member.

Hate to ruin a talking point...but that's the facts.

So, are you saying Nancy Pelosi can just do it?   :laugh:

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McMasters and others are on right now on Cspan discussing all of these things, I think it is a live FDD (Foundation for Developing Democracies) meeting.

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  But hey...anything to justify Trumps retreat right?

 

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Once again,you are so emotionally involved in this,WHAT is preventing YOU from going there and picking up a rifle?
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And BTW:  WE do not need to launch a war with Iran to get rid of those B@stards!  All we need do is to back the right people internally in Iran and they will take care of that for us.

It does seem we make the most progress when we simply arm those in the region with an immediate stake in the outcome that lines up with our own.

Having said that I'm outta this debate. I agree with those on the other side of it on too many other important issues.

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At least someone is showing leadership and stepping up to help the Kurds.

@txradioguy

ROFLMAO! Yeah,Israel stepping into the breach by sending Jewish fighters should really make things there as smooth as butta,huh?

What could POSSIBLY go wrong if that happened?
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Based on what I know,  count me as a supporter of the President's position that we need to extricate U.S. troops from Syria, as well as more generally from the Middle East.   These are tribal conflicts that have endured, in some cases, for centuries.   The fracking revolution that led to our renewed energy independence ought to give us the ability to at least get our Bravest out of harms way of these endlessly fighting tribes.   Let 'em settle their own rancid and never-ending squabbles and hatreds. I've not advocating isolationism with respect to the Middle East - we should maintain vigorous diplomacy and the ability to project air power.   But I strain to see the continued need for boots on the ground in these God-forsaken hellholes.   
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So, are you saying Nancy Pelosi can just do it?   :laugh:

If she were do to that....it would be the only time in my life I'd every support anything she did.  :laugh:
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Based on what I know,   

You'd have been smart to stop right there.
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ROFLMAO! Yeah,Israel stepping into the breach by sending Jewish fighters should really make things there as smooth as butta,huh?

What could POSSIBLY go wrong if that happened?

I'm just quote this without any further comment as an example of how little you know of Israels dealings and interactions with other Muslim countries and ethnic groups in the ME.
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Based on what I know,  count me as a supporter of the President's position that we need to extricate U.S. troops from Syria, as well as more generally from the Middle East.   These are tribal conflicts that have endured, in some cases, for centuries.   The fracking revolution that led to our renewed energy independence ought to give us the ability to at least get our Bravest out of harms way of these endlessly fighting tribes.   Let 'em settle their own rancid and never-ending squabbles and hatreds. I've not advocating isolationism with respect to the Middle East - we should maintain vigorous diplomacy and the ability to project air power.   But I strain to see the continued need for boots on the ground in these God-forsaken hellholes.   

@Jazzhead, you and I are in agreement here.

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It's almost as if this Kurd thing was designed to take some other things off the front page for a bit.   :pondering:

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It's almost as if this Kurd thing was designed to take some other things off the front page for a bit.   :pondering:

Wag the dog/puss?   
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Wag the dog/puss?

If he was, I 'd hope he would be smarter than using this controversial action.
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Based on what I know,  count me as a supporter of the President's position that we need to extricate U.S. troops from Syria, as well as more generally from the Middle East.   These are tribal conflicts that have endured, in some cases, for centuries.   The fracking revolution that led to our renewed energy independence ought to give us the ability to at least get our Bravest out of harms way of these endlessly fighting tribes.   Let 'em settle their own rancid and never-ending squabbles and hatreds. I've not advocating isolationism with respect to the Middle East - we should maintain vigorous diplomacy and the ability to project air power.   But I strain to see the continued need for boots on the ground in these God-forsaken hellholes.   

A few people I have seen make the case, "this is a tribal war, it's been going on forever".

Sorry, Christians may have been the first innocent victims in yesterday's attack.  So, this depersonalizes what is at stake.

No 2003 invasion, no Bush, no Obama and maybe no persecution of Christians, Christians who have btw, died fighting ISIS.

Some reports say Christians were among the first victims yesterday:

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 is not surprised two Christians were the first to be killed in the Turkish attack in the Al-Beshayriyyeh neighborhood in Al-Qamishli city Wednesday. "This is what Erdogan wants. Especially the Christians are his first target."




https://twitter.com/vvanwilgenburg/status/1182283899013079042

The SDF, Arabs, Kurds, Christians, did the dirty work on the ground. I find this a morally bankrupt philosophy on this conflict.

Try the view in 2003, not in 2019 after Bush and Obama and plenty of others.  And Trump possibly has severely erred.  We have a moral responsibility, the war was mismanaged,  the flames of sectarianism fanned.

McMaster is talking about whether something like this was going to happen anyway, meaning the Turkish invasion.  It does seem like sooner or later, this was something that had to be confronted. Europe though, could do much more, not for it all to be up to us.
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Backstab on your own time, not on mine.  Yes, Trump may have erred, McMaster just said, maybe he didn't fully understand the operations he was told by Erdogan. It's no simple matter, as of now, I'd find it hard to vote for Trump but we'd see.  Still, might be better than the alternative, we don't know everything about this.

This is a bit like Kennedy's Bay of Pigs.


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Dan Crenshaw is a man who has walked the walk as well as talking the talk and should be listened to @Once-Ler.

He couldn't be any more right about this.
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