"White House says Turkey's Erdogan to visit Nov. 13"

Turkish offensive 'will not exceed 30km'

Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said his country's operation would not go further than 30km (20 miles) deep into Syria.

"When we go 30km deep in the safe zone, terror there will be removed," he told CNN Turk, referring to the presence of Kurdish fighters considered by Ankara as "terrorists",

Cavusoglu also said Turkey had the right to use the air space over Syria as part of its campaign and that the "air space does not belong to the United States".

All that makes it all copacetic? Trump abondoning the US ally in its fight against ISIS is rationalized cause some official from Turkey says they will only advance twenty miles? And who do you think lives in that twenty miles? Currently Turkey is bombing Kurd installations to include Kurdish villages, and you are happy with some twenty mile promise?

Point being, Monday sold the Kurds down the drain, via twitter no less, Turkey starts bombing Kurds in anticipation of an invasion, and Tuesday Trump invites the individual responsible for that bombing of a loyal US ally to the White House as his "guest." And you don't see this as a problem?
 
Do you think the Kurds are going to continue to guard the prisons while their countrymen are fighting elsewhere? They will have to reallocate resources to confront the Turks, one of the reasons the Pentagon has criticized Trump's move

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...rds-latest-isis-sdf-middle-east-a9150816.html
https://www.stripes.com/news/middle-east/us-will-not-secure-isis-prisons-if-kurds-exit-1.602311
this is what you wrote
Consequently Kurdish soldiers start abondoning ISIS prisons to defend against Turkish advances, evolving the situation from betrayal to threatening
which is not true-why I asked for a cite.

I know what the warhawks are saying -they say a lot of jingoistic shit to justify staying in Syria.
But if you want to war game it -OK fine.

1.this is a very narrow incursion,and only along a small area of the border.
Turkey has overwhelming firepower advantage,and reports show they are moving in quickly right behing softening the Kurds.

The Kurds guarding the prisoner are detailed as such, and there is no reason to say they will leave them
unattended or "jailbreaks" or the other hoopla I'm hearing.

2.If they are not in the fighting zone they would have to advance against the Turkish air/army, which really cant be done without being seen and targeted..so no they aren't going to leave the prisoners and advance into the fighting
So no -this is a false premise
 
I’m no fan of Turkey but they ARE a NATO country.

Wait, doesn’t that make them our allies lol? The Kurds are our allies to whatever extent we were useful to them in occupying the territory they endeavored to make Kurdistan. We’re we supposed to help them?

Forget the Pentagon, wasn’t Congress supposed to check off on all that? Oh sorry, that all happened under the other ‘dictator’.

If the situation between the Kurds and Turks seems an intractable mess—it’s because it fricking is. Half of the Kurds are PKK and they are commie terrorists; and the Turks [our actual allies according to treaty] want them dead.

So—what are even doing in the middle of it in the first place? With all the handwringing from the so called ‘experts’ and their new-found neocon brethren on the left—not a one of them can give a coherent answer for ANY OF IT.

Just the same old boilerplate about ‘abandoning the Kurds’. If we are ever attacked should we hold breath waiting on the Kurds to be our ‘allies’?

So Trump didn't "abondon" the Kurds, via a tweet no less? And the Kurds haven't been our ally in fighting ISIS, actually, one of the few allies fighting ISIS on the ground? And one day after Trump shits on the Kurds he invites the guy currently bombing their villages to the White House, and you don't see a problem with this?
 
All that makes it all copacetic? Trump abondoning the US ally in its fight against ISIS is rationalized cause some official from Turkey says they will only advance twenty miles? And who do you think lives in that twenty miles? Currently Turkey is bombing Kurd installations to include Kurdish villages, and you are happy with some twenty mile promise?

Point being, Monday sold the Kurds down the drain, via twitter no less, Turkey starts bombing Kurds in anticipation of an invasion, and Tuesday Trump invites the individual responsible for that bombing of a loyal US ally to the White House as his "guest." And you don't see this as a problem?
I've gone over this ad nauseum
I am not debating the entire operation over and over.

I will say 20 miles is much less then I thought and I can only think of 2 towns where we might have had Special forces, which would not have stopped the op.
Erdogan has been wanting to go in since the caliphate was destroyed it was in the cards with or without a few US forces
 
So Trump didn't "abondon" the Kurds, via a tweet no less? And the Kurds haven't been our ally in fighting ISIS, actually, one of the few allies fighting ISIS on the ground? And one day after Trump shits on the Kurds he invites the guy currently bombing their villages to the White House, and you don't see a problem with this?

Who’s been telling you it was a problem?

Erdogan is an ally *according to treaty*. If you want to argue Turkey has no business being in NATO I’m all ears.
 
What an utterly idiotic thing to say. It's sad what you've become.

What's that? A regular American citizen who loves her country but despises the kowtowing egomaniacal despot-ass-kissing shitgibbon in our White House?

It's sad what YOU'VE become: An apologist for a treasonous grifter who throws our allies under the bus when it suits him, and begs foreign countries to fuck around in our elections.
 
Don't know about the Amendment, but it is an embarrassment, you would think that Trump, after abondoning a loyal US ally, would have enough sense to wait till a much later date to invite the person now bombing that ally as his "guest" to the White House

Trump is dead inside, therefore, he has no sense of anything. He's a greedy zombie-like parasite that exists to suck up all the wealth he can regardless of the means.
 
this is what you wrote
which is not true-why I asked for a cite.

I know what the warhawks are saying -they say a lot of jingoistic shit to justify staying in Syria.
But if you want to war game it -OK fine.

1.this is a very narrow incursion,and only along a small area of the border.
Turkey has overwhelming firepower advantage,and reports show they are moving in quickly right behing softening the Kurds.

The Kurds guarding the prisoner are detailed as such, and there is no reason to say they will leave them
unattended or "jailbreaks" or the other hoopla I'm hearing.

2.If they are not in the fighting zone they would have to advance against the Turkish air/army, which really cant be done without being seen and targeted..so no they aren't going to leave the prisoners and advance into the fighting
So no -this is a false premise

Oh, so now Trump does know more than the Pentagon and even his own intelligence entities on the situation, and you really think the Kurds are going to just give up cause Turkey is supposedly moving too fast for them to counter?

And now you are telling us that the Kurds, who watched Trump abandon them, and are experiencing Turkish bombardment while Trump invites the person responsible for that bombardment as his "guest" to the White House, are going to help out Trump and not come to the aid of their countrymen but rather continue to guard the ISIS prisoners sworn to fight the US?

Hardly a "false premise," rather a likely probability, there was a reason I included a military source as verification

And it is noticeable that you didn't respond to the simple question of Trump inviting to the White House one day after Trump abandons via tweet the Kurds the very person now bombing the Kurds
 
Oh, so now Trump does know more than the Pentagon and even his own intelligence entities on the situation, and you really think the Kurds are going to just give up cause Turkey is supposedly moving too fast for them to counter?

And now you are telling us that the Kurds, who watched Trump abandon them, and are experiencing Turkish bombardment while Trump invites the person responsible for that bombardment as his "guest" to the White House, are going to help out Trump and not come to the aid of their countrymen but rather continue to guard the ISIS prisoners sworn to fight the US?

Hardly a "false premise," rather a likely probability, there was a reason I included a military source as verification

And it is noticeable that you didn't respond to the simple question of Trump inviting to the White House one day after Trump abandons via tweet the Kurds the very person now bombing the Kurds

How many home runs have the Pentagon and the ‘intelligence agencies’ [something of an oxymoron lately] hit in the Middle East in the last 20 years lol?
 
Who’s been telling you it was a problem?

Erdogan is an ally *according to treaty*. If you want to argue Turkey has no business being in NATO I’m all ears.

Oh, so inviting to the White House as your "guest" the very person who one day after you kiss off an ally is bombing that ally is copacetic? That is a great message to send to the world community, and surely they noticed

Good luck finding another ally for intelligence or actual ground fighting if situations in the Middle East demand such, better yet, finding an ally with Trump promises
 
How's that bromance and nuclear disarmament with Kim going? Or shouldn't we talk about that?

Hope you got BOB fresh batteries for tonight's rally. :laugh:

And Trump abandons allies on the bull shit premise of removing troops for their sake but sends troops to the Saudis who butchered a journalist alive and produced the 9/11 hijackers.
 
Oh, so inviting to the White House as your "guest" the very person who one day after you kiss off an ally is bombing that ally is copacetic? That is a great message to send to the world community, and surely they noticed

Good luck finding another ally for intelligence or actual ground fighting if situations in the Middle East demand such, better yet, finding an ally with Trump promises

No one in the Middle East is going to turn down military help from the US.

You keep falling back on the boilerplate ‘ally’ thing. If and when it happens the Kurds find us useful, they will welcome us as ‘allies’.

Take it to the bank.
 
Oh, so now Trump does know more than the Pentagon and even his own intelligence entities on the situation, and you really think the Kurds are going to just give up cause Turkey is supposedly moving too fast for them to counter?
it wouldn't be the first time the Pentagon endorsed Iraq and Libya.
They are warhawks -they skew their thinking as such

And now you are telling us that the Kurds, who watched Trump abandon them, and are experiencing Turkish bombardment while Trump invites the person responsible for that bombardment as his "guest" to the White House, are going to help out Trump and not come to the aid of their countrymen but rather continue to guard the ISIS prisoners sworn to fight the US?
I explained to you the logistics would make it impossible or very difficult/ these are what you don't get while watching expert on TV.
They talk in general terms of "abandoning the Kurds", but don't drill down to the operational level and game it
TYey were wrong about "jailbreaks and other crap as well -you would do better thinking things thru for yourself

Hardly a "false premise," rather a likely probability, there was a reason I included a military source as verification
"military sources" would have us in perpetual deployment.
Unless you see a step by step war game analysis -at least take it with a jaundiced eye.


And it is noticeable that you didn't respond to the simple question of Trump inviting to the White House one day after Trump abandons via tweet the Kurds the very person now bombing the Kurds
I'm fine with it. They need to meet up we have lots of mutual concerns, and conflicts to work thru
 
And Trump abandons allies on the bull shit premise of removing troops for their sake but sends troops to the Saudis who butchered a journalist alive and produced the 9/11 hijackers.

I remember when Obama came to the Kurds rescue with all our troops and supplies when they were getting gassed by Assad? The great humanitarian efforts he did were, well, non existent. Never happened. Were you upset then? I was. Am now.
 
Oh, so inviting to the White House as your "guest" the very person who one day after you kiss off an ally is bombing that ally is copacetic? That is a great message to send to the world community, and surely they noticed

Good luck finding another ally for intelligence or actual ground fighting if situations in the Middle East demand such, better yet, finding an ally with Trump promises
we will when we need it if it meets the needs of a potential partner.
It's called "transactionalism" -or I call it realpolitik.

If it's in a states interest the will do it - if not they wont.
Hopefully Trumps goal of STAYING THE FUCK OUT OF FOREIGN CIVIL WARS means we wont need them
 
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