Trump: Our Soldiers Should Not Be Guarding the Turkish-Syrian Border When We Can’t Guard Our Own

[rangerrebew]

Trump: Our Soldiers Should Not Be Guarding the Turkish-Syrian Border When We Can’t Guard Our Own


(CNSNews.com) – President Trump sounded a somber note on Saturday as he defended a widely-criticized decision to pull U.S. troops away from a part of Syria where Turkish forces are now attacking Kurdish fighters allied to the U.S., saying it was time to bring American soldiers home.

“The Kurds are tending to leave [the area] and that’s good,” Trump said. “Let them have their borders, but I don’t think our soldiers should be there for the next 50 years, guarding a border between Turkey and Syria, when we can’t guard our own borders at home. I don’t think so.”

“We’ve been in these wars now, one of them 19 years,” he said at the Values Voter Summit in Washington, in reference to the war in Afghanistan, the longest military engagement in American history.

Source URL: https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/trump-defends-syria-decision-sometimes-we-have-know-what-were

[Sanguine]

He's got a point.

[Fishrrman]

"Trump: Our Soldiers Should Not Be Guarding the Turkish-Syrian Border When We Can’t Guard Our Own..."

Right again.

EVERY soldier currently serving in the Mideast should be pulled outta there, and sent to the Mexican border, where they can actually do some good.

[DB]

Who knew it was so easy to end war... Just walk away... Deep thoughts...

[Right_in_Virginia]

Who knew it was so easy to end war... Just walk away... Deep thoughts...

I've got your deep thoughts right here:  It's not our war @DB   We should be celebrating a CIC who holds to the stated mission (ISIS) and doesn't allow the usual mission creep that keeps us in hellholes (Afghanistan) for 19 years.

[DB]

I've got your deep thoughts right here:  It's not our war @DB   We should be celebrating a CIC who holds to the stated mission (ISIS) and doesn't allow the usual mission creep that keeps us in hellholes (Afghanistan) for 19 years.

Funny, if Trump had decided to send more troops you'd be praising that as the right choice. If it isn't our war, it wasn't our war nearly 3 years ago when Trump first took office. Why did we waste all those lives until now?

[sneakypete]

He's got a point.

@Sanguine

Several of them,and they are all good and needed to be said.