especially when Trump said ISIS members would head to Europe (like they would feel good about him un-caring about their safety).
But dumb comments that 'Kurds did not help at Normandy"?? How could they have helped 2000 miles away?
Germany was at Normandy, and we have an alliance with them, so maybe Trump has a point.
I mean, their leadership have been willing to join with every damn imperialist at the drop of a hat so was probably an oversight.
Trump’s just rubbing it in by now:
Part of his “Bring the troops back home” campaign promise.
But I campaigned on the fact that I was going to bring our—our soldiers home, and bring them home as rapidly as possible
In the 1990s, we sent troops to protect the Kingdom, building a conspicuous Western and un-Islamic presence on the Prophet’s peninsula at a time when the House of Saud’s waste of national resources sent living standards plummeting for the average Saudi. The result was Al Qaida.
Funny how history sometimes repeats itself.
Dumping bad news on a Friday. US troops are going to protect a country who spawned most of the 9/11 attackers. Perfectly reasonable that US taxpayers should supply this protection.
Daniel Dale, CNN:
Aw man. And I really thought he was telling the truth this time!
OOOpsie bombed US troops instead.
Has to be fake news! We don’t have any soldiers left in Syria!
Yep. All this, allowed and encouraged by the party of 13 Benghazi investigations.
President Trump announces that the U.S. military is now a mercenary band for hire.
Devin Dwyer, ABC News:
Typical Trump. He made a public statement promising to bring the troops back and got all the public attention from that announcement.
Then the next day, when he was supposed to actually do the thing he promised? He had already moved on to the next thing.
He used to show up at charity events and announce he was making a big donation. He’d be photographed and people would shake his hand. And then after he had gotten the publicity he wanted, he’d never bother sending the charity the money he had promised.
Josh Rogin, Washington Post:
From my earlier post (152):
Of course Trump is allied with Germany - presumably because they were at Normandy. :mad::eek::smack:
Damn. Picturing my ninja showing up, seeing nobody there, checks his phone only to exclaim “Dafuck! Yesterday?”
Richard Engel, NBC:
SDF Commander to US: “I need to know if you are capable of protecting my people, of stopping these bombs falling on us or not. I need to know, because if you’re not, I need to make a deal with Russia and the regime now.”
So to be clear, they can strike a deal with the Russians to fight on their behalf as Syrian Kurds against ISIS and Turkey? Go for it.
Turkey and the Kurds have been fighting with each other long before our involvement. It’s not our fight. We helped the tri-state area of Kurds against ISIS. Not the other way around. For us to protect them from Turkey in this matter places the United States on their side of a civil war. It means we support the redrawing of boundaries toward the creation of a new country from the land of 3 others. I don’t see how we can do this without turning on an ally and making things worse. If the UN wants a Kurdistan state then let them fight it out.