Washington Doesn’t Really Care About the Kurds

[Revmitchell]

RUSH: If you think that all of this angst over Trump pulling out 28 or 50 military advisers from Syria is about the Kurds, if you think it’s because all of these people in Washington, D.C. care about the Kurds, then you are misreading the circumstance. They don’t care about the Kurds. How many media reports have you seen where the Drive-Bys went over to Syria to do a series of reports on the plight of the Kurds? None! They don’t care about the Kurds. That’s not what this is about.

Let me tell you, it’s about a number of things, but the primary thing it’s about is that Trump didn’t tell anybody before he was gonna do it. No leaders in the House, no leaders in the Senate. He just announced it and everybody wakes up and says, “What? He didn’t confide in us. He didn’t consult us.” And there’s already animosity towards Trump from a lot of people that don’t like him being an outsider, so it’s just another avenue to go at the guy for being unqualified.

Washington Doesn’t Really Care About the Kurds

 

[carpro]

And none of the 2nd guessers, armchair quarterbacks, or naysayers have an exit plan for Syria.

None of them. Not even one.

 

[Revmitchell]

Turkey is a nato partner and we have a trade deal with them

 

[Adonia]

The Congress right now has the power to declare war to protect the Kurds, so what are they waiting for?

 

[asterisktom]

Having spent some time in the Kurdish region I was able to learn a bit more about the Turkish-Kurdish situation. First, the problem is especially the militant Kurds, PKK and YPG. Both of them do terrorist attacks that kill innocent people. We saw on local news how a farmer just outside town, while plowing his field discovered - almost plowed up - a militant-planted tripwire that would have blown up buildings nearby.

Trump actually is doing a good thing by letting go of this situation. There are no good guys among the main players. The Kurdish militants, in areas where they are in power, persecute the Christians. They have been closing down Christian schools in Syria. The Kurdish people also, not just the militants, also had bloody hands in the Armenian Massacre a century ago. They, along with the Turks, slaughtered many Christians, selling many of them into slavery.

The Turks also certainly aren't good guys, obviously. We spent a good while in Diyarbakir, one of the main Kurdish regions. The information guy gave us a map with the southeastern quarter circled and Xed out, as if to say that there is no reason we should go there. We found out later, speaking privately in German to a local merchant, that as recently as two years ago the Turkish army had massacred many of the residents in those neighborhoods. He even mimicked spraying with a machine gun. And then they bulldozed most of the buildings. Just check out the city of Diyarbakir on Google Earth and see for yourself. We had wanted to see an historic Armenian church there only to find a high metal wall around the whole area. So the Turks aren't exactly winning hearts and minds.

I don't think there is anything the US can do to help the situation. As in other places and other times our presence only exacerbates long-standing local hostilities. We tend to address these complicated problems with cookie-cutter one-size-fits-all solutions. I think Trump is on the right track here.

 

[Use of Time]

RUSH: If you think that all of this angst over Trump pulling out 28 or 50 military advisers from Syria is about the Kurds, if you think it’s because all of these people in Washington, D.C. care about the Kurds, then you are misreading the circumstance. They don’t care about the Kurds. How many media reports have you seen where the Drive-Bys went over to Syria to do a series of reports on the plight of the Kurds? None! They don’t care about the Kurds. That’s not what this is about.

Let me tell you, it’s about a number of things, but the primary thing it’s about is that Trump didn’t tell anybody before he was gonna do it. No leaders in the House, no leaders in the Senate. He just announced it and everybody wakes up and says, “What? He didn’t confide in us. He didn’t consult us.” And there’s already animosity towards Trump from a lot of people that don’t like him being an outsider, so it’s just another avenue to go at the guy for being unqualified.

Washington Doesn’t Really Care About the Kurds

None of this is true.

 

[Reformed1689]

The Congress right now has the power to declare war to protect the Kurds, so what are they waiting for?

I don't want this option, but I know why you said it. But, of course, Congress doesn't declare war anymore these days. We haven't done it since WW2

 

[Shoostie]

None of this is true.

How about that, you labeled your own post so no one else had to. But, now we have a paradox.