Showing posts with label Turkey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Turkey. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 15, 2019

When No More Stupid Wars Means No More Stupid Wars

By Patrick Buchanan:

President Donald Trump could have been more deft and diplomatic in how he engineered that immediate pullout from northeastern Syria.

Yet that withdrawal was as inevitable as were its consequences. A thousand U.S. troops and their Kurdish allies were not going to dominate indefinitely the entire northeast quadrant of a country the size of Syria against the will of the Damascus regime and army.

Had the U.S. refused to vacate Syrian lands on Turkey’s demand, a fight would be inevitable ...

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