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2018-12-21 Home Front: WoT

Trump on leaving Syria: US doesn’t want to be ‘policeman of the Middle East’

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Posted by trailing wife 2018-12-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 We seem to enjoy going over there, stirring the pot, screwing the Kurds then leaving.

Posted by gorb 2018-12-21 04:35|| 2018-12-21 04:35|| Front Page Top

#2 Gorb - My argument is that it has nothing to do with anything except the US Domestic Civil War being waged by Deep State, the Press, Democrats and Republicrats on the validly elected Trump. The UniParty just can't cope with rejection.

Posted by 3dc 2018-12-21 06:24|| 2018-12-21 06:24|| Front Page Top

#3 Got into Syria chasing ISIS that had nearly surrounded Baghdad at one point. ISIS still festers, mainly in or around Syria, but no longer posses a major threat to our interests in Iraq. At what point can't the other players deal with ISIS and we pull back? Or is this a Forever War? You have a goal?

Meanwhile thousands of miles away, you've lost control of your own southern border. And you are fiscally insolvent (but no one wants to tell the king he has no clothes). In other words, you got bigger things to deal with back here at home.

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-12-21 06:51|| 2018-12-21 06:51|| Front Page Top

Ref #5: The enemy of my enemy....

Posted by Besoeker 2018-12-21 07:50|| 2018-12-21 07:50|| Front Page Top

#5 Call him a genius all you want, Trump is like a chicken without a head now.

One day on it's Rantburg loves all the kurds, the way they fight ISIS, next day, let them all die.

Keep kissing Trump's dirty a$$ all you want, Rantburg, things have changed here since we had Cold War Warriors in 01'.... now we have Russians acting like Rantburgers.

Posted by Flusogum Slemble9878 2018-12-21 10:14|| 2018-12-21 10:14|| Front Page Top

#6 Tell me what American (not globalist) interests in Syria? Tell me what the goal is?

IIRC it was Obama who started the game of regime change in Syria.

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-12-21 10:35|| 2018-12-21 10:35|| Front Page Top

#7 I love it when the left gets all bent out of shape by Rantbuqg. Heh!

Posted by Ebbavirt Clunk4147 2018-12-21 10:36|| 2018-12-21 10:36|| Front Page Top

#8 Some brave Americans bled over there so we would not have to bleed over here. You want a goal? That seems to be a good one. Have you forgotten 9/11 already? Have you forgotten Iraq after Obama bailed out too abruptly? How about Desert Storm where we left the Iraqi regime standing?

History teaches you these lessons, but you isolationists refuse to learn. Start reading up, start with Pearl Harbor.

The goal is to keep the Iranians from building terrorist infrastructure - just like they did when we abandoned iraq. So if you agree with Trump acting like Obama, then go right ahead.

Same goes with letting Turkey and the Islamists there have free reign. Think Erdogan and the MB will not eventually force a US military response? Think again.

Erdogan unfettered. Iran IRG without a counterweight. Saudi's and Salafists reacting to that. And the Russians dominating in Syria with no ability for the US to counter.

A breeding den for terrorists and state sponsored terror groups. They will target Israel - and they will target America. Bet on it. And you isolationists propose sitting by with your thumbs up your butts chanting "America Firts" with no clue that you're setting the wheels in motion for a war.

Fight the wolf THERE not here. Fight the wolf before it grows powerful. Fight the wolf using locals, no Americans.

Or withdraw, and bleed a lot more later on.

Is that what you isolationists want?

Posted by Glolush Whusotch4899 2018-12-21 11:18|| 2018-12-21 11:18|| Front Page Top

#9 Please throttle it back a bit GW, or face eviction.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-12-21 11:29|| 2018-12-21 11:29|| Front Page Top

#10 18 years was not enough over there? You know where the nearest airport is. Enjoy!

Posted by Ebbavirt Clunk4147 2018-12-21 11:46|| 2018-12-21 11:46|| Front Page Top

#11 Please throttle it back a bit GW, or face eviction.
Posted by: Besoeker

Let him talk.

Posted by jvalentour 2018-12-21 11:54|| 2018-12-21 11:54|| Front Page Top

#12 If we dont don't want to bleed over here, why did Obozo import so many of them?

Posted by Regular joe 2018-12-21 14:29|| 2018-12-21 14:29|| Front Page Top

#13 That way he could have his cake and eat it, too.

Posted by gorb 2018-12-21 19:51|| 2018-12-21 19:51|| Front Page Top

#14 The coulda, woulda, shoulda goal. If-then-else scenarios to rationalize and justify the unjustifiable. Take Grant's advise, quit worrying about what the other guy is possibly doing, make him worry about what you are going to do.

Hey, instead of a police action and nation building we had gone Mongol on those we are at pseudo-war with, you deter people from even considering doing crap upon us. Those who hate us anyway haven't been moved by our historic 'humanitarian' conduct of operations. Time to get back to real war (and why it should be avoided, but if you want to, this is what you get).

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-12-21 20:15|| 2018-12-21 20:15|| Front Page Top

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