Most people seem to have forgotten that the U.S. still has around 900 troops in Syria, illegally occupying roughly a third of the nation alongside our Kurdish allies.
The House voted overwhelmingly to condemn Trump's abandonment of the Syrian Kurds.
If you listened to the MSM you would think that we are leaving Syria.
We are leaving the Kurdish-majority areas of Syria.
As for the non-Kurdish areas of Syria. Well, that's a whole 'nuther story.
After admitting I was foolish to have believed Trump was right to call Erdogan's bluff on the invasion, I find myself still thinking there may have been a rationale for Trump's move, as horrific as it has turned out to be.
Simon Tisdall describes a possible positive outcome from the negative reactions to Erdogan on the part of countries involved in the crisis:
When Syria’s foreign ministry labeled the Syrian Democratic Forces as “separatist terrorist militias” three weeks ago, you knew something was up.
It appears that the conflict in Syria is about to get even more FUBAR, if that was even possible.
Washington doesn't ask the Syrian Kurds for much. Not really. We only want them to passively step aside for their enemies to rape and pillage.
Our withdrawal from Syria leaves our Kurdish allies in the lurch.
That much the mainstream media gets right.
A couple weeks ago I asked a couple simple questions:
Why, oh why, would we choose the YPG-dominated SDF, over our long time NATO ally?
Why are we militarily containing Turkey?
