Pretty concise rundown of why we are not abandoning the Kurds.-
Long article that lays out the history of how we got where we are, but here is the money –
“The Kurds in Iraq are far more capable of defending themselves than the Kurds of Syria. Taking on the defense of Syria’s Kurds would commit the US to an open-ended presence in Syria and justify Turkish antagonism. America’s interests would not be advanced. They would be harmed, particularly in light of the YPG’s selling trait for Obama – its warm ties to Assad and Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps.”
So in a nutshell, why should we get involved in yet another open ended war to protect the YPG and the PPK when both are cozy with Iran?
Update: Trump forces a third way,oh and ABC caught lying again.
Get ready for Act 2 Scene III-
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/10/14/trumps-syrian-maneuver-works-president-erdogan-asks-for-negotiations-with-kurds-insyria/
ABC caught lying…….again-
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/10/14/abc-news-busted-creating-fake-news-propaganda-surrounding-syrian-conflict/
Video was actually from the Knob Creek Machinegun Shoot-
https://youtu.be/bNtj0gyJYrA
Turkey only can wish it had that kind of firepower
The US has waged unconstitutional and illegal (i.e., war crime) war against Syria. See a picture of a the utter destruction of any Syrian city? It’s the direct responsibility of the US and its “allies” Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey, France, the UK, and Israel.
We encouraged the Kurds to act independently to try to assert control over Arab areas of e. Syria. Had we not done so, the Kurds would earlier have worked it out with the Syrian government and US support or not would have been irrelevant.
The hysteria over Iran is contrived. Israel wants us to go head to head with Iran and so we grovel before the Israelis whose interests are not our own. With the vast US military presence around the world, it’s hypocrisy for the US to complain of other governments asserting their own interests in their immediate neighborhoods.
The US needs to disengage from all foreign meddling and refocus on domestic affairs. The only thing we have to show for our endless meddling is chaos, destruction, and death in foreign countries thousands of mile from our shores. “Mind your own business” needs to become the new motto of the American empire.
I agree almost entirely with your comment Colonel, however, I believe you are wrong on Iran which has been a thorn in the side of middle east peace ever since the Islamic revolution of 1979.
And one should never ignore the Iranian chant of Death to America, Death to Israel, that has been sung out ever since as has the Iranian ambition to procure nuclear weapons for which I have no doubt whatsoever, that given the opportunity, would be used.
Look up the coming of the 12th Iman and then consider, that it is not what we choose to believe about our prospective enemies, but what they choose to believe about themselves that really matters.
Trump’s economic sanctions against both Iran and North Korea (in the business of supplying each other with the weaponry they each require and is not normally available to them from the rest of the world) are having an impact that hopefully will see both rogue states (some say C_A assets) eventually give up their military ambitions and join the rest of the world instead of rattling the occasional sabre against it.
Good to see you commenting here, always appreciate your thoughts.
“The US needs to disengage from all foreign meddling and refocus on domestic affairs. The only thing we have to show for our endless meddling is chaos, destruction, and death in foreign countries thousands of mile from our shores. “Mind your own business” needs to become the new motto of the American empire.”
I see it as a catch 22, if we disengage, the world goes to hell in a hand basket and we end up in a real mess circa 1936. If we stay engaged, but with no coherent foreign policy, we are also in a mess.
My take is similar to Trump’s, in that we need a major re-alignment. We need to close our bases in western Europe and finally come to the realization that the two largest European powers, France and Germany are not our allies and the rest do what Germany tells them to. I think we should move our assets from western Europe to some of the former Eastern Bloc countries-Poland,Hungary,Chek Republic etc, countries that want us there and understand what we are fighting. Turkey should have been cut loose at the end of the Cold War and there is no reason that we should keep backing them. If they want to invade Syria, then go for it, hell encourage it, drop that mess right in Putin’s lap and see how he likes being caught in the middle.
Iran hates Israel, so do the Saudis, however not as much as they hate Iran. Their hatred of Iran is such that Israel,Jordan,Egypt and Saudi Arabia have entered a mutual aid pact and started training together and recently(last couple years) the Saudis have given Israel overflight rights in the event they decide to attack Iranian targets.
Iran is the Cuba of the ME. If they stayed inside their own borders no one would care and they wouldn’t be a problem.But just like Cuba ,they have been sending their proxies to stir shit in the region for the last 40 years. We have never had enough influence to stop them economically primarily because our so called European allies have been doing business with them from jump.