(10-18-2019, 09:03 AM)Jagwired Wrote: This skirmish between Turkey and Kurdish insurgent groups has been ongoing in some capacity since 1978 yet somehow some of you clowns blame it on Trump. Good Lawd the TDS has risen to freakish levels.

No one is blaming the conflict between Turkey and the Kurds on Trump.  What people are blaming Trump for is deserting an ally who is facing a mortal enemy.  The Kurds were our ground troops in the fight against ISIS.  They lost tens of thousands of soldiers helping us defeat ISIS.  And now that the Turks want to invade Kurdish territory in Syria, we walked away with no warning at all.  We just left the Kurds on their own to face the Turks.   The Kurds have been guarding thousands of ISIS prisoners.   But now they have to have every man up to resist the Turks.  So who is guarding the ISIS prisoners now?  From all reports, they are escaping their jails.  Because the guards have gone to fight the Turks.  What an incredible [BLEEP]-up.  

But the worst thing is, this destroys our credibility as a partner in the fight against terrorism.  Why would anyone trust us after this?  Who is going to fight on our side now, if we desert our partners like this?  Next time, we'll have to use American troops, because no one is going to do for us what the Kurds did.  Not after what we did to the Kurds.  It's slimy what we did to them.  Embarrassing.  Immoral.  

We used them in the fight against ISIS, and then we sold them out to their enemies.

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