TRUMP PULLS TROOPS OUT OF SYRIA! RIGHT MOVE

LET WAR HAWKS HOWL—THIS IS THE RIGHT MOVE FOR THE USA

Today (October, 7, 2019) we learned that President Trump will NOT interfere as our NATO ally Turkey moves against Kurdish forces occupying areas of eastern Syria (which borders Turkey).

The Presient is only making a common sense decision in response to a terrible mess made by previous administrations which stupidly involved us in  a  tribal, sectarian-fueled Syrian Civil War in which we had no real stake.

It was the failed and stupid foreign policy of the Obama Administration which formulated the policy of aiding (radicals, ISIS and other)  insurgent forces in Syria in the misguided and futile hope that they would topple the Assad regime.  The  Obama people—like the Bush people before them— did not even have a long-term plans as to who (among the radicals in that part of the world)  would replace Assad.  Their actions  simply exposed how haughty and uninformed  the US State  Department and Obama Administration was regarding the culture, religion, and political situation in Syria.  The Syrian people always saw Assad as the least “worst” of the choices they had.  Assad always held political sway  over nearly  60% of the Syrian population.  He was not going to be taken out by the USA to be replaced with a more pro-USA regime.  This witless policy of Obama, in fact, caused the intensification and widening of the Syrian civil war and extended its violence and duration with deadly and terrible effects.  While being the cause of the extension of the war the Obama Washington DC elites  and the US media  hypocritically continued to shed alligator tears as they claimed to decry the devastation and loss of innocent lives there,

In the failed process of attempting regime change in Syria  the Obama Administration enlisted the aid of the Kurdish minority in eastern Syria for their poorly thought out plan.  We spent untold billions , and loss of US blood for this idiocy,  which from the beginning had no real hope of success.

The Kurds are a people with their own language, culture and history and of the Sunni sect who reside in the general region as ethnic minorities in Syria, Turkey, Iran and Iraq. They are the mortal enemies of the Turks. For the last three decades the  Kurdish minority in Turkey has waged a bloodily and deadly terrorist campaign against the central Ankara government with the futile goal of  establishing Kurdish autonomy statern parts of southeastern Turkey.   However, given the distribution of the ethnic  Kurds in the surrounding region an autonomous Kurdish enclave  would be tantamount to  Ankara giving up the southeastern part of  Turkey to this minority.  The Turks would never permit it.

The Erdogan government now sees the-American supported and armed-to-the-teeth-Kurds on their doorstep (along their southwestern border with Syria)  as terrorists who have contacts and support in their own country and the goal of taking over a large chunk of Turkey.  The Kurds are rightly seen as an existential threat to the Turkish nation.

The recently announced Turkish plan is designed to clear a buffer zone in a swath where Kurdish forces are now arrayed along the southern border of Turkey in Syria.  That cleared area would then be settled with Syrians refugees now living precariously in refugee centers in Turkey.  The refugee problem in Turkey is a complex one.  Turkey made a deal with the EU to accept the refugees from Syria preventing them from going on to the EU.  These people have swelled into a major economic and social problem for the Turks.  Moving these people back into Syria would be returning Syrians to Syria and relieving the Turks of a big economic burden as well as eliminating the threat from the potential for terrorist attacks from Kurdish forces now on that border. .

 The political stability and our continued positive and fruitful alliance with Turkey is more important over the long haul than the  “phony accusation of abandoning the Kurds” to as we remove our “tripwire” troops.  we have in that region by removing our support from the Kurds who now are in an untenable position over the long haul.

Trump has made the first sensible decision for Syria and the USA in the last decade or more.  Let’s applaud his decision and ignore the howls of the war hawks like Senator Graham who would keep our troops bleeding in every and any outpost just to be able to say we are winning.

But this is a win. .