Which country do you think will send troops to fight ISIS, especially now the US has stabbed our allies in the back? Are you aware that the UN has no troops of its own?
I know how UN military actions work - I lived in the middle of one when I was a kid. No UN troops - Canadian, Nigerian, Ethipian, Indian and Irish troops, all wearing UN insignia.
shrug I’d encourage the UN to find better customers if they feel similarly to you.
Just curious, which UN military action was that? Was it one of the ones where they did nothing while civilians were massacred?
…when you happily eat that restaurant meal and the meal of the table next door and drink a substantial amount of booze, then tell the waiter “yeah, I’ll pay the bill and give you a hefty tip” one would expect that you would honour your commitments and pay the bill.
But when you get to the cashier and tell the cashier “Fuck you, I’m not paying until you give me a discount, and a free car wash, and a footrub” don’t be surprised if the cashier says to you “No, fuck you, if you aren’t going to pay what you owe then you can go out the back and wash the dishes.”
If you then proceeded to not only refuse to pay the money you owe the restaurant or wash the dishes but then pulled out a baseball bat and demolished all the glassware and crockery before pummelling the cashier to death in a fit of irrational anger and rage, then still insisted on a discount, and a free car wash, and a footrub, one might start to think that maybe you aren’t the kind of person that can be trusted.
Honestly, while I have absolutely no love for the Assad regime - and even less for its allies - I can’t blame the Kurds one whit. America won’t help them, my country can’t, so they have to do whatever they can to survive.
The American pull out from Syria was inevitable. Bernie has certainly been very critical of our involvement. I can’t see Warren keeping troops there either. Trump ran in 2016 saying he’d get the troops out.
I wish the pull out would have been handled more competently. Certainly we should have insisted on giving the safe zones created in August more time to work.
Politically there just isn’t any desire to keep troops in that region.
The Kurds General has the first name “Mazloum”.
You cannot make this up.
And now, these isolationist UN talking points have turned the corner from “The UN should handle the fallout from the Trump Surrender” to “The UN should not do business with the US.”
This, ladies and gentlemen, is MAGA in a nutshell. Just say whatever comes to mind, doesn’t matter if there’s any consistency, strategy, or deeper thoughtf involved.
I mean, that is what the world is doing right now. We have gone from the leader of the free world to a deadbeat that turns on its allies in only a very few short years.
China is finding better customers, Europe is finding better customers, even most of Africa finds that dealing with China is better to trade with. The whole world is finding that we are not necessary, and other than our massive military, which is now for sale to the highest bidder, are irrelevant to the world stage.
I don’t understand the mentality behind people who are proud of getting kicked out of a restaurant for being an ass. “Oh, what!? You don’t like that I took a shit in the middle of the dining room? Well, if you feel that way, I encourage you to find better customers.”
I’m curious as to what one you are thinking of here. Do you have a specific instance in mind, or is this just a general smear and insinuation?
Do you object when a power stands by and allows civilians to be massacred? If so, do you have the same objection to when a power betrays its allies and steps to the side to allow civilians to be massacred, or is that different?
This GOP-sanctioned Genocide of Christians will continue as long as Donald Trump is President. Plain, pure, and simple.
Sanctions? Lol! Dollar diplomacy is dead, the world is too rich for the USA to buy them off any more, and too interconnected to make sanctions nothing more than an modified step in the supply chain.
Trump started this genocide of Christians, and he will allow it to continue as long as he remains President.
Forgetting for a minute that that is an adopted name, not his given name(and therefore, is in fact, made up), Mazloum is not an uncommon name in the region. Are you just making fun of funny foreign names here, or are you trying to make a point of some kind?
Even better, I can list a dozen Christians I’ve met with the first name Christian, Christopher, Christina, and variations on the theme.
You cannot make that shit up either.
Even Christ’s name was “Christ”!
You just made the point for me.
Dear God in heaven these guys are priceless. 
So, just making fun of funny sounding foreign names then. Got it.
Foreign policy disasters happen - that’s not the shocking part. The truly horrific aspect to this situation is the ease with which Trump was influenced.
One call, that’s all.
Before you pointed out the similarity to “Muslim,” I had no clue what **AK84 **was even getting at.
ABC News just got busted pretending gun range footage was an attack on Kurdish civilians: https://mobile.twitter.com/PolishPatriotTM/status/1183695628288827392
Thanks for keeping the focus on important news. The source of some b-roll is far more important than anyone’s life.