Syrian Hmong

[Dill]

(10-09-2019, 02:04 PM)bfine32 Wrote: As a proclaimed "Trump supporter" in this forum. I recall being in the minority when I disagreed with our decision to pull Troops out of Syria. You might want to fully understand was going on in this situation before assigning blame to a group.

So far as I know, you are only a Trump "defender." You are not "for" Trump; just "against" those who question his honesty, competence and sanity, supposedly because they hate him, not because of his record of dishonest, incompetent, and borderline psychotic behavior.

But you are saying you, JJ and I were a minority in opposing the first pullout? (B-zona did not support that either, did he?) Perhaps, but I don't recall you elaborating on what that, and the resignation of his most important foreign policy advisors, suggested about Trump's competence. Here is chance to tell us what you really think.

Probably better than anyone in this forum, you know how closely American military members may bond with indigenous soldiers they fight alongside. For three decades Kurdish fighters have viewed the US as their closest ally; and they have stood by the US in the fight against Saddam and ISIS, putting their bodies on the line.

Now the US soldiers who fought along side the Kurds in the recent campaign against ISIS have been pulled back and told to stand down. The Kurds, with no air power or heavy artillery, are absorbing attacks from both Turkey and ISIS, and, out of military necessity, may have to abandon camps holding some 10,000 ISIS fighters. The Pentagon is very unhappy with this situation, and our allies are blindsided.

Do you think (as I do) that this green light to Turkey was a very bad military/foreign policy decision which is part of a larger pattern, including the busted the Iran Deal? Or is it the one-off error of a president whose foreign policy is otherwise just fine, an error which will soon fade from the front pages? Some other option?