He’s just so horrible:
Read the fine print: Turkey gets Syrian Kurd land he’s wanted for years. Kurdish fighters have to disarm and get out. Russia gains influence. ISIS does what it wants. Trump cancels sanctions on Turkey. Art of the deal!!! If you are Erdogan https://t.co/rfG6XQnzkb
— Andrea Mitchell (@mitchellreports) October 17, 2019
WATCH: Sen. Romney: "What we have done to the Kurds will stand as a blood stain in the annals of American history." pic.twitter.com/G4CF07b2Zx
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) October 17, 2019
WTF is this idiot talking about? There is no "deal." Turkey is holding back for 5 days to allow Kurds to scatter, and Kurds saying "screw you." Where does this "millions of lives" crap come from? Who has been negotiating for years to get a 5 day cease fire on a war he started? pic.twitter.com/rIXtpikJWt
— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) October 17, 2019
Yes the Turks have been trying to do this for years and the US always resisted. What’s changed is Trump decided to give them everything they wanted and call it a “deal” – with no upside for us, huge upside for our adversaries and tragedy for the Kurds. https://t.co/nWSLNn1Ipb
— Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) October 17, 2019
Republican warmonger Marco Rubio and Democratic warmongers Jack Reed and Tammy Duckworth agree with warmonger Mitt Romney, who took the floor of the Senate yesterday and told us that once the US (that’s us) makes a commitment to somebody, we must keep that commitment no matter what. And forever.
In 2014 the Obama administration promised the Kurds that the US would commit to an autonomous Kurdish state to be located on one-third of Syria’s territory if the Kurds annihilated ISIS.
Do you suppose that any of the war-planning geniuses like Barry (Brett) McGurk, ever once entertained the possibility that the Kurds might actually be able to totally defeat ISIS and bring down their Caliphate?
Making treaties and commitments to real countries such as Lichtenstein is one thing.
But making meaningless and illegal commitments and promises to groups or organizations like the Basques or the Kurds about autonomy and force protection is idiotic and the Obama administration was wrong to do it.
Likewise the thinking of warmongers Romney, Reed, Rubio and Duckworth is equally idiotic because circumstance change over time.
Which is why the US should take a long, hard look at our relationship with Israel and Saudi Arabia.