shmogie
Well-Known Member
Oh, I should have figured that out by now. Thank you for the rebuke based upon superior knowledge.Kurds are not formal allies unlike Turkey which is in NATO. There is no Kurdish nation-state, there is no treaty of alliance with the US. Sad for the Kurds but this is what happens when a group thinks they are anything but a proxy by ignoring reality. The Syrian Kurds security is via Assad not the USA unless you want the USA to overthrow Assad thus get into conflict with Russia. Toss in there are actually 3, or more, faction of Kurds; Syrian, Iraqi and Turkish. The latter are not allies what so ever.
The only reason Turkey is in NATO is due to location. Turkey was never a great ally but one of convenience due to Russia and the Black Sea. In my view Turkey should have been dumped years ago as the pretext is no longer valid. Turkey was never a bastion of stability given it has faced multiple military coups in it's history.
This was going to happen anyways unless Assad lost against one or more rebel groups or was overthrown by the USA. Syria has been an ally of Russia for decades.
This policy isn't isolationist as per troop deployment in KSA. Syria does not have oil. KSA does. Syria is a mess, KSA isn't. Beside it take little to redeploy the USAF which is the primary US military tool in Syria not ground troops. The Kurds are meat shields so the USAF can bomb ISIS. Considering ISIS had no air force or even a minor threat to USA air power the idea that withdrawal shows lack of strength is absurd. I am sure ISIS members when they were being bombed into the stone age were really thinking how weak the US is. The strength babble from Bolton is pure BS.
Bolton is a war hawk. He would have the US tied up in foreign civil wars and foreign wars that just waste money and blood for decades. The US hasn't been able to figure out how to nation build since West Germany nor are the populations in question interested.
The area has been a disaster for decades due to USA intervention policy. You should have figured this out by now or did nearly 20 years of Afghanistan and Iraq not clue you in.
There is a point which one accepts a loss and calls it quits. Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan are primary examples.
Bolton is not a war hawk, your error. He understands the diplomacy of power, and the use of military force required. He was dead set against Obamas CIA intervention and overthrow of the government in Libya, now another leaking sore. If he were a
war hawk, he would have been overjoyed by this stupid blunder.
Just another inaccurate name the left pins on Republicans