Why do you guys keep harping on that - especially in a thread about Trump’s culpability in Syria regarding our allies the Kurds.
Some idiot headline writer wrote a ridiculous headline - and hopefully was fired on account of it.
It was a headline. The actual article was not sympathetic to the bastard.
As I said in a different thread, I’d dearly love to know the name of the guy who wrote that headline, and if he still has a job.
So now can we get back to the matter at hand?
Trump’s ineptness jeopardized the success of the killing of Bagdaddi. It cost the lives of innocent Kurds. It cost us a lot of money in abandoned equipment, etc. Then he ends up sending troops right back to Syria. Talk about inept…
Did our forces leave food and supplies behind in Syria when they were evacuated?
Are the Russians and Turks now more chummy than ever?
Did we just abandon our allies the Kurds - when it was their intelligence that enabled us to get el-Bagdaddi? How many Kurds died because Trump wanted to safeguard his hotel in Turkey?
Money was wasted - unnecessarily.
Please point out the flaws in my statements - sentence by sentence. With proof. Because if you read any article on the subject by any objective news media, that’s exactly what happened.
We’ve left fortifications, food, supplies, vehicles etc behind everywhere we’ve withdrawn. Remember ISIS armed itself originally primarily with US weapons and vehicles we’d left behind in Iraq for the benefit of Iraqi forces.
Yes, Turkey and Russia are now “closer than ever”, ;heck, they may even start buying Russian Anti Aircraft weapons and radar, HA!
I’m not happy about how this withdrawal was accomplished but at least I’m not going to turn into a screaming hypocrite like so many of our Trump haters have done.
It caught everyone off guard and made them speed up the mission. This made it more dangerous. Trump Was a liability to the mission. The professionalism of the military overcame this.