In the last few weeks I have seen and heard a ton of chatter on regular and social media, chastising President Trump about his decision to pull back a couple dozen troops from The Syrian border. The claims are that he is abandoning our Kurdish allies in the region. Let’s get things straight.
First of
all, the Turkish incursion in northern Syria, with approximately fifteen
thousand troops was inevitable. Our fifty or so support troops would have been
left in harm’s way, in a foreign country that they have no business being in
the first place.
Secondly,
we have already lost over two thousand good American lives in the region, and
three trillion dollars in the past twelve years.
Third, it is the Democrats that have put us there to begin with, through a series of blunders. It was under John Kerry’s advice (Democrat Secretary of State) serving under President Bush, that we invaded Iraq under false pretences. Where, by the way, The Kurds ran away like rabbits, rather than help the U.S. military. Then, under Hillary Clinton’s tenure, during the Obama administration, our military was used to assassinate Momar Qudafi in Libya, creating a power vacuum to allow I.S.I.S. to gain a foothold in the region, not to mention the whole Benghazi failure and tragedy.
The
fourth thing, I didn’t see this kind of outrage when President Obama suddenly
withdrew thousands of troops from the region, leaving not only The Kurds, but
left behind millions of dollars of military equipment, including M-1 Abrams
tanks, giving I.S.I.S even more leeway and the equipment to kill even more of our
soldiers, as well as The Kurds, when the group captured the dam and set fire to
the oil fields.
Then
there was “The Red Line” ultimatum that President Obama gave to the Syrian
leader Assad warning him not to use chemical weapons and that “Red Line” was
crossed. Nothing was done about it, at the expense of thousands of Syrian’s
lives.
When I
see and hear this kind of absolutely foolish outrage about President Trump
actually doing something to protect our troops for a change, it’s beyond
laughable, it’s pathetic. Seeing people’s posts on social media embracing the
MSNBC propaganda machine is so sad. They are so desperately trying to be part
of the imposed narrative of the Trump hater crowd, that they lose their own
rational free will of thought. I have even seen postings of these pathetic
rants from Gold Star Family members.
I suggest everyone takes a good
look at how we got here, before they leap onto that MSNBC bandwagon!