"‘They are livid’: Trump’s withdrawal from Syria prompts rare public criticism from current, former military officials
By Missy Ryan Reporter covering the Pentagon, military issues and national security
October 19 at 11:28 PM
The generals KNOW Tweety f**ked up!
"Trump dismisses Turkey's invasion of Syria: 'It's not our border'"
Trump insisted on Wednesday that the fight is over land that "has nothing to do with us."
ISIS threatened the Middle East, and could threaten the uS from their Caliphate if allowed to persist, so USA asked the Kurds to help US soldiers fight ISIS! The Kurds helped USA expecting America to protect them from Turkey.
What is this Trump crap about not our border?! The Kurd soldiers protected our soldiers!
Trump wants to build a Wall on our Southern border to keep our harmless immigrants seeking asylum, wants to shoot them in the immigrants crossing the border in their knees, put alligators in a moat . . . BUT IT IS OK TO ULEASH ISIS?
"Trump Lashes Out on Syria as Republicans Rebuke Him in House Vote"
President Trump again defends his decision to withdraw American troops, an order that many, including Republicans, have interpreted as acquiescing to Turkey’s incursion against a United States ally.
By Peter Baker, Annie Karni and Lara Jakes Oct. 16, 2019, Updated 6:38 p.m. ET
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/16/world/middleeast/trump-erdogan-turkey-syria-kurds.html
"WASHINGTON — President Trump seemed ["SEEMED?" TUMP WASHED HIS HANDS OF THE KURDS, PERIOD, FULL STOP!] to wash his hands of the conflict between Turkey and America’s Kurdish allies in Syria on Wednesday, generating withering criticism from Republican allies, who rebuked him in a House vote. The day ended with a heated confrontation between Mr. Trump and Speaker Nancy Pelosi in the Oval Office.
Mr. Trump told reporters that the Turkish assault on Kurdish fighters in northern Syria that began after he pulled out American troops “has nothing to do with us.” [EXCEPT THE KURDS HELPED US STOP ISIS ONSLAUGHT!] He declared that the Kurds who battled the Islamic State alongside United States forces for years were “not angels,” [NO SOLDIER IS AN ANGEL! ALL SOLDIERS KILL PEOPLE, INCLUDING INOCENT PEOPLE SOMETIMES!] but instead essentially self-interested mercenaries who fought because they were paid to." [US SOLDIERS GET A PAYCHECK, SO ARE THEY EVIL? WHY AREN'T US SOLDIERS MERCENARIES?]
WTF! No soldier is an "angel," they KILL people, and every soldier, EVERY SINGLE ONE, every soldier gets a paycheck, so what the f**k is Trump saying?! Essentially EVERY SOLDIER IS A MERCENARY!
Tweety Trump has now tried to walk back America's (HIS!) abandonment and betrayal of our Kurd allies, the Kurds who helped us end the ISIS caliphate, in now suggesting a peace talk! Why did Tweety Trump not suggest the peace talk before he pulled our troops so Turkey would not attack and kill our Kurd allies?
Tweety thinks a "teen idol" letter he wrote (a very, very immaturely written letter) to the Turkey President can make it look like he is tough on Turkey, demands a cease fire . . . days too late and in a childish tone.
" . . . the president denied that he gave a green light to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey during a phone call last week, citing a letter that he wrote a few days afterward.“
History will look upon you favorably if you get this done the right and humane way,” Mr. Trump said in the letter, which was dated Oct. 9 and obtained by Fox News on Wednesday and confirmed by a White House official. “It will look upon you forever as the devil if good things don’t happen. Don’t be a tough guy. Don’t be a fool! I will call you later.”"
Who writes letters like this?
Trump bulls shits when he says, “I hope we can mediate,” . . . F**k! He is an absolute deceiving idiot! He does not care!
Turkey MUST be expelled from NATO, but the American military is to dependent on the Turkish bases. How is it the strongest, biggest, most powerful military in the world needs one country like Turkey no matter what they do?
A VERY, VERY bad choice by Tweety Trump to withdraw American soldiers from northern Syria where they are helping the Kurds. The Kurds we were helping are allies who assisted with destroying the ISIS State. Now, with our troops leaving, Turkey will attack and kill the Kurds since Turkey sees the Kurds as terrorists. The Kurds are separatists in Turkey - want their independence.
So what did Turkey do when the US troops left the Kurds? Tweety Trump threatened Turkey with economic sanctions if they attacked the Kurds, an act that would certainly take years to have any effect. So what did the Turks do?
"Fighting rages as Turkey steps up assault against Kurdish forces"
Tens of thousands of civilians flee to seek safety as Turkish forces pound Kurdish fighters' positions for a second day.
"Huge plumes of smoke billowed into the sky as Turkey pressed ahead with its assault against Kurdish forces in northeastern Syria, pounding the region with air raids and artillery fire amid heavy fighting that sent panicked civilians on both sides of the border fleeing.
Tens of thousands of people in Syria scrambled to escape the violence, according to the United Nations, as the Turkish offensive against the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) continued at a fierce pace for a second day on Thursday."
Tweet Trump is stupid about the history of how the Kurds have been our allies?
"War, sanctions or deal: Trump says US has ‘three choices’ with Turkey in Syria"
10 Oct, 2019, 20:40 / Updated 1 hour ago
https://www.rt.com/usa/470657-war-sanctions-trump-turkey/
"US President Donald Trump has laid out three choices for Washington in dealing with Turkey’s incursion into Syria, including a “deal” between Ankara and the US-allied Kurdish militias.Noting that the Kurds and Turkey have been “fighting each other for 200 years” and that no US troops are in the area of Syria under attack by Turkish troops, the US president spelled out the options of his administration on Twitter, seemingly inviting a response from the general public."
Of course Tweety Trump tries to walk back his idiotic decision / distraction from impeachment, and he says we should help the Kurds and Turkey work it out. Maybe he means like he is helping the Palestinians and Israelis work out their differences? Turkey ahs already attacked (10 Oct 2019) and killed a dozen or so Kurds!
"One of the options was “send in thousands of troops and win militarily,” which he has not been inclined towards in the past. Another was to “hit Turkey very hard” with sanctions and financially. The last, not mentioned before, was to “mediate a deal between Turkey and the Kurds!”
Asked which option he preferred, Trump said "I hope it’s going to be the last one.”
“I hope we can mediate,” he told reporters outside the White House on Thursday. “Turkey knows where I stand.”
The tweets come amid criticism from Trump’s his own party as well as the Democrats over his supposed “betrayal” of the Kurds and giving Ankara the “green light” for ‘Operation Peace Spring’ to carve out a “safe zone” along the border.
On Monday, Trump announced the pullout of some 50 US troops from the Syrian-Turkish border region, where they were advising and supporting Kurdish YPG and YJ militias. While Washington has relied on the Kurds to fight against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS), Turkey considers both militias to be terrorist organizations.
Trump has defended his decision by saying he wanted to pull US troops out of “endless wars” in the Middle East, noting that IS has been “100 percent defeated” – a claim he repeated on Thursday."
"Actually, President Trump, some Kurds did fight in World War II"
By Siobhán O'Grady Staff Writer, Foreign desk October 10, 2019 at 2:22 PM
"President Trump has gone to great lengths to defend his decision for U.S. troops to step aside this week as Turkey plowed ahead with an offensive against Kurdish forces in northern Syria, a key U.S. ally in the fight against the Islamic State.
Trump has acknowledged that the Kurds fought alongside the United States in Syria but said they “were paid massive amounts of money and equipment to do so.” He has tried to justify the move by saying he wants to bring U.S. troops out of endless wars in the Middle East.
And Wednesday, Trump tried to play down the U.S. partnership with the Kurds even further, saying “they didn’t help us in the Second World War. They didn’t help us in Normandy."
Those comments confused some observers, who saw the Kurdish role in World War II as irrelevant to the U.S. position on their alliance today. Washington certainly doesn’t shape all of its modern alliances on where a country stood in World War II — with Germany and Japan being the obvious examples."
Obviously Tweety is stupid! Or a liar! Or both! DUMB! LIAR UGLY!
"And the Kurds do not even have their own nation-state, living instead largely between Syria, Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Armenia.
“It’s a weird framing that doesn’t really make sense historically or politically,” said Djene Rhys Bajalan, an assistant professor of Middle Eastern history at Missouri State University whose research focuses on Kurds at the end of World War I. “Numerous people who didn’t have nation-states weren’t necessarily at Normandy but participated either directly in the war or in terms of providing materials and labor for the war.”
Some Kurdish fighters were among them. “They didn’t have a state, so they couldn’t act as a state,” said Jordi Tejel, a professor of history at the University of Neuchatel in France and author of “Syria’s Kurds: History, Politics and Society.” Still, he said some individual Kurdish fighters from across the region did join other armies, fighting alongside the British and the Soviet Union’s Red Army."
"As the US retreats from Middle East, Europe can no longer hide in its shadow"
Turkey’s incursion into Syria — and US President Trump’s acquiescence — makes clear Europe needs to learn to stand on its own.
By Nathalie Tocci and Sinan Ekim 10/10/19, 7:09 PM CET
"The Kurds have been abandoned, again.
Theirs is a long history of Western betrayal, dating back to colonial times. That the West would once again turn its back, after enlisting Kurdish help in Iraq and Syria against the Islamic State, has been in the cards for years. Witness the West’s unease with the ill-fated 2017 independence referendum in Iraqi Kurdistan or its silence about Turkey’s 2018 Olive Branch military operation on Afrin in Syria.
But U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision this week to provide a de facto green light for yet another Turkish offensive into Kurdish-held territory in Northern Syria is not just another instance in a long, unfortunate pattern in Western-Kurdish relations. It’s the turning of a new page in the history of the Middle East.
This is what the end of the Pax Americana in the region looks like. As bloody and tenuous as that pax may have been, its dissolution is disorienting for many in the region. For Europeans, in particular, it should serve as a shock that moves us to act.
The sudden power vacuum has Europe looking weak and unprepared. But the truth is that Europe has not led in the region for decades. As long as upheavals in the region unfolded under the shell of U.S. hegemony, Europeans operated in Uncle Sam’s shadow. Sometimes European countries complemented American action, at other times they sought to moderate it. But they never opposed it or charted an autonomous path. If our weakness has been exposed, it’s because we can no longer hide behind the U.S.’s skirts."
WHAT MUST BE DONE?
"Most of all, however, Europe must realize it must not blink. Turkey is not in a position to alienate its arguably most important partner. And the EU should be clear that it will not be blackmailed over the values that lie at its foundation."
