I mean, Trump’s foreign policy is basically how you create a terrorist.
You can’t turn them into what they already are.
Besides, lets be serious, the US has been creating terrorists through foreign policy for 30 years in the ME.
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President Trump is one sharp guy. Sound bites don’t do this man justice.
I know I’m the dumbest person on all of these boards but I seriously think you guys should consider the chances of trump losing
Malee
October 20, 2019, 2:30pm
#2625
Black_Swan:
Sweep_the_Leg:
Screw Trump for making America look so inept, spineless, and - most importantly - untrustworthy. The Kurds were our strongest allies against ISIS and Trump just served them up on a silver platter. So many things are screwed up about this. Trump told Erdogan we were pulling out before he told the DoD or anyone else not named Tayyip. Turkey publicly stated they were going to slaughter the Kurds and Trump initially did nothing until his “great wisdom” kicked in. He did not threaten economic sanctions during the call with Erdogan. And a source that heard the call said Trump is completely spineless and rolled over for Erdogan. The spineless thing has been repeated by pretty much every general that’s worked for Trump (see Mattis in particular).
Worst of all, he’s tarnished America’s reputation as a staunch ally. We made an implicit agreement with the Kurds and now we’ve left them to get slaughtered. Regardless of what anyone thinks of middle east politics, the U.S. doesn’t leave its allies hanging…until now.
You know it’s bad with McConnell and Graham are both denouncing Trump. In one action, he not only weakened our position on the world stage, but gave Russia, Iran, and Assad a huge gift. Did I mention it was Putin’s birthday yesterday? What a coincidence. I don’t see how this isn’t seen as a move against America’s interests. Trump just joined the Axis of Evil.
Screw that guy and screw anyone that continues to support him. I understand how some people have done the mental gymnastics to stay behind him, but this is too much. He’s a coward. He’s an idiot. He’s a traitor.
Yes, we should just stay there militarily forever and ever. Of course brass hates it, the military hasn’t seen a fight they didn’t want to join. What happened to being libertarian?
Turkey has been bombing Kurds off and on and this was going to happen whether Trump moved off or not, unless he was ready to fight Turkey over it and put more US troops back on the ground in a never ending cycle.
The Kurds didn’t take our guns because they thought they were fighting for the US, they have been in a perpetual state of war with Turkey et all long before we showed up. They were happy to take our supplies when our interests aligned and now they’re shocked we’re not going to stay and fight their war with Turkey. Good reason not to get involved in the first place.
Screw the cowards that talk big internet game but won’t ship themselves off to Syria to join the Kurds, so spineless, so cowardly.
Amen to that, why is it always that the most hawkish pols and cabinet members don’t have any kids in the military. Yes, i know it happens once in a while like Joe Biden…but not Wolfowitz, Bolton, Bush, Kristol, Feith…
frisian
October 20, 2019, 3:16pm
#2626
First off, the last name of the Secretary of Defense is Esper, not Esperanto. Second, what does the situation in Syria have to do with “Oil”?
This person isn’t fit to run a bed and breakfast. Note that there are other Republicans running for president in the 2020 election.
frisian
October 22, 2019, 9:26pm
#2627
Currently, I think that is his literal point.
W/r/t events prior to this, Syria is a significant oil producer and when this whole thing started ISIL was also threatening the collapse of Iraq (and potentially the region), not to mention KSA was involved. You are easily the dumbest person here.
Putin wins again…now that guy is playing 4d chess.
frisian
October 26, 2019, 1:08pm
#2635
People cheered for President Trump too but it’s sad how the media only focused on the negative!
Also, what happened to “when they go low, we go high”? Very sad that the media is trying to divide the nation, just like the last guy tried and failed at doing!
igor555
October 28, 2019, 4:45am
#2639
when you don’t put America first, other countries love you! Obama was a weak President that made America weaker, sad
So proud that we have Donald Trump as our Commander-in-Chief, taking out the bad guys!