The end of Kurdistan?

[Joseph Patrick]

From Gerry Milligan...Thanks to the egocentrism of the Draft-dodger, we could very easily see the end of a people group. And people who say that they are born again evangelicals support this man. "Come quickly Lord Jesus."

[Tim Bonney]

[Haruo]

I don't think the various governments of Kurdistan will be as genocidal as all that, but I could be wrong. Trump's notion that the Kurds are "the natural enemies" of the Turks isn't encouraging. But millions of kurds have lived for decades, generations, centuries under various oppressive national and colonial regimes without being eliminated. There are still lots of Armenians. But the damage done to American credibility is great.

[Tim Bonney]

[Haruo]

[Dave Roberts]

And all of this reaches back to when western colonial powers drew lines on maps that had nothing to do with the self-determination of the peoples who lived within or across those lines.

[Tim Bonney]

[Sandy]

Getting rid of ISIS would have been a much more difficult prospect has it not been for the support of the Kurds. The military forces with the boots on the ground that fought ISIS literally street by street, block by block in the cities like Mosul and Al Raqqah were largely made up of Kurdish soldiers. Yes, they had US support, some US military presence but the whole strategy that was put in place by President Obama, with the Kurds largely at the center of it and which was well underway when he left office was kept in place under Brett McGurk. That was one thing early Trump military advisors succeeded in doing, keeping him from recklessly kicking that strategy over and doing his own thing while the strategy in place was working. Of course, the inept and incompetence crept in as the military advisors left over Trump's stupidity and initial announcement he was pulling troops out of Syria in 2018. That's when Mad Dog Mattis stormed out and McGurk resigned. Though he backed off then because there were still people around who slapped his hand and said no, he let a Muslim leader talk him into supporting Turkey's interests. So ends all the griping, whining and lip flapping of conservatives who played the holy horror game when President Obama greeted the Saudi crown prince with a bow. Trump is groveling because he has business interests in Istanbul, his building there has two towers, not just one. Yep, that's on the record.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90414334/tr ... a-surprise

So we have a president making military and foreign policy decisions based on protecting his own business investments. Trump left Clinton in the dust on impeachable offenses when the Mueller report came out. Ukraine and now all of this is surpassing the corruption record set by Nixon. Just pick the offense that's likely to get the most Senate votes to throw him out. The voters are going to do it in November 2020 anyway.

And this Turkish invasion is more than likely going to be the catalyst that puts an end to the thousands of years of Christian presence in Syria. Trump's insistence on closing off the border to Syrian refugees cut the lifeline for thousands of Christians who had connections and the ability to produce the necessary documents to come to the US during the civil war. The "godless liberals" in Canada have provided most of the safe havens for middle eastern Christians who could get out. Maybe they didn't sign the right doctrinal statement or something.