{"id":37879,"date":"2019-10-08T10:26:17","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T17:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=37879"},"modified":"2019-10-08T10:26:17","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T17:26:17","slug":"trump-abandons-kurds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/10\/08\/trump-abandons-kurds\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Abandons Kurds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Resident Donald Trump was on the phone with Recep Tarrip Erdogan [R-TU], Republican pseudo-Muslim leader of Turkey.  Erdogan must have told Trump that Trump has a very large penis, because Trump irresponsibly gave Erdogan license to attack our Kurdish allies in Syria, possibly undoing the defeat of ISIL.  The Turks have a long history of massacres against Kurds, as the picture below illustrates<\/font><\/p>\n

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The commander of Syrian Kurdish forces didn\u2019t use the word \u201cbetrayal.\u201d But with U.S. troops withdrawing from the Turkish-Syrian border and Turkish troops poised to attack, he warned on Monday that a bloodbath could be ahead<\/strong> \u2014 and pleaded for continued U.S. support. <\/p>\n

Gen. Mazloum Abdi, the commander of the Kurdish-led militia known as the Syrian Democratic Forces, said during a telephone interview from his headquarters inside Syria that Turkish troops \u201care preparing to cross the border\u201d and that a major assault could come in \u201ca matter of days.\u201d <\/p>\n

The Kurdish commander\u2019s pleas that the United States not abandon an ally struck a chord in a Washington that is whipsawed by President Trump\u2019s increasing practice of diplomacy by impulse and whim<\/strong>. Even Senate Republicans who usually acquiesce to Trump\u2019s policies were vocal in protesting Trump\u2019s move to abandon our Syrian Kurdish allies, who did most of the fighting and dying against the Islamic State<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

This latest chapter of the Syrian horror story followed a White House announcement late Sunday that Trump was, in effect, leaving the border unprotected in the face of a possible Turkish attack, despite repeated U.S. pledges over the past three months that the United States would seek to forestall such an assault if the Kurds pulled back troops and heavy weapons from the border zone…  [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Here are two video clips that tell more.<\/font><\/p>\n

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