From Fox News . This could be bad news
https://www.foxnews.com/world/turkey-nuclear-bombs-hostage-syria
https://www.foxnews.com/world/turkey-nuclear-bombs-hostage-syria
If there was a crisis there isn't any now. Turkish agrees to ceasefire. The troops are coming home Pelosi loses again. The bi__h is a third fourth and fifth rate politician .
These colors ran...
It was never about someone else’s war. It was about a damn pipeline that we wanted to build and Syria said we couldn’t run it through their country. Suddenly a regime change was needed.
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We had a small number of troops - not in combat - whose mere presence was helping stabilize the region. The Kurds brought ISIS under control and were maintaining that control.Negative ghost rider. Personally, I’d prefer for our colors to not be there at all. But, how long do we need to play in other people’s wars? We helped them, they helped us. Time to go, been there too long already.
Next places to leave are Yemen, Qatar, Turkey, Iraq, Afghanistan, Dijbouti, Bahrain, et cetera.
BSIt was never about someone else’s war. It was about a damn pipeline that we wanted to build and Syria said we couldn’t run it through their country. Suddenly a regime change was needed.
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Thought it was the other way. Russia wanted to build a pipeline and Assad agreed so regime change was needed.
Either way it’s NEVER about something other than some national interest. That interest ain’t there no more apparently, so it’s time to bug out.
I will go back to my original statement. If all the keyboard commandos would take the weekend off and join the Kurds in their righteous fight for freedom, Turkey would be destroyed before happy hour on Monday. Stop trying to send my family to die in some shithole without articulating a solid national security need. Keeping socialist Kurds afloat isn’t a national goal for the USA.
So.......let them take care of their own affairs.Having spent a career in the Air Force, I’ll be the first to tell you air power can’t hold ground. The only way to control land space is with land forces.
Even if air power turns every single square inch of land into pulverized dust, the moment air power is no long present, the land space is open for grabs.
Foreign policy in the Middle East isn’t difficult to understand...for the past 1500 years, mostly nomadic tribes have fought one another over resources, religion, and reputation; about 100 years ago Europeans put lines on a map to represent borders, ensuring those lines captured a significant opposing minority for various political reasons. That’s also about the same time the peoples in that area began the march from pre-industrial societies to post-industrial societies.