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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"The Kurds? Yes, you may kill them."
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Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, shakes hands with Jared Kushner, left, US President Donald Trump's adviser, prior to their meeting at the Presidential Palace in Ankara, Turkey, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019 (Presidential Press Service via AP, Pool)
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blm
(113,065 posts)Pure evil.
Nevermypresident
(781 posts)joost5
(421 posts)lambchopp59
(2,809 posts)I have to wait at least a half hour now to eat my breakfast after looking at that picture. Jared didn't forget to put on his whitening spray that morning did he?
pangaia
(24,324 posts)They are both robots.
Voltaire2
(13,061 posts)the long standing international unspoken agreement that the Kurds will never have a state of their own and that it is always ok to sacrifice them for any reason.
MaryMagdaline
(6,855 posts)maxrandb
(15,334 posts)You really believe that a President Clinton would give the "go ahead" for Turkey to slaughter the Kurds?
Stop trying to make excuses for this worthless piece of amphibian shit.
Your post is one of many I've seen today that basically says; "oh, well, sucks to be the Kurds"...
As if a different President or person would have done exactly what Dipshit Donnie is doing.
Fuck that. Your post is the absolute worst example of "bothsiderism" I've ever fucking seen, and is example number 135,674,789 of the reasons this ignorant fuckstick is in the oval office.
You should take it down.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)Clinton maintained the no-fly zone status for Iraq, but the bulk of the slaughter was long over before Bill Clinton took office.
The Kurdish people have been repeatedly betrayed, blatantly and unapologetically, by the last three Republican presidents. The person you responded to just now with demands of removing the post, didn't specify Bill or 'both sides' at all.
stopdiggin
(11,316 posts)Kurds have been used (when advantageous) and betrayed by all and sundry going back generations. Trump is of course the most faithless partner imaginable .. but the Kurds have had virtually NO faithful partners ..in a long and regrettable struggle. Hatred of Trump doesn't substitute for some understanding of the realities.
station agent
(385 posts)A lot has happened since 2001.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)The Kurdish people have no single homeland at the moment. But one can identify them as an ethnic group, and observe how our nation treats them.
During the worst of the more recent Iraq war, we considered partitioning Iraq into Sunni, Shia, and Kurdish regions. Turkey in no uncertain terms, threatened to invade and destroy any attempt to create a Kurdish nation in any form. (And George W backed down.)
Voltaire2
(13,061 posts)But please take a brief look at how we allowed Turkey to slaughter Kurds for decades, how we used and discarded the Iraqi Kurds twice, how we ignored the Iranian slaughter of the Kurds in the 70's when the Pahlevi gang was running Iran...
Voltaire2
(13,061 posts)It is always important to consider poorly informed opinions on their merit.
You might want to research the sad history of the Kurdish people over the last 100 years. Or not.
maxrandb
(15,334 posts)A lot of that time deployed to that region and hotspot.
I'm fully aware of the history of the Kurds, as I am with the history of the Palestinians.
There are difficult, but workable solutions that don't include giving Turkey, or Israel carte blanche to murder people.
The Kurds have been our allies in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria.
We shouldn't simply cut and run because "that's the way we've always done it".
gab13by13
(21,359 posts)MaryMagdaline
(6,855 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,004 posts)bdamomma
(63,868 posts)is that going to be another empty building shell, after tRump screws Turkey too.
PaulRevere08
(449 posts)Gothmog
(145,312 posts)regnaD kciN
(26,044 posts)Dont get me wrong. We have been far from perfect and have lots of blood on our hands. But this is the first time we have consciously sold out a valuable ally to sure genocide after they did all we asked them to do on our behalf.
Lock him up.
(6,932 posts)dchill
(38,502 posts)gordianot
(15,238 posts)A snake with hands. My apologies to snakes everywhere but you do not have hands.
DallasNE
(7,403 posts)Is very worrisome. Indeed, Trump is already doing the burn. Just look at the glee on his face when he signed an Executive Order to gut Medicare Advantage. Can't get him out of there too soon.
58Sunliner
(4,386 posts)with another sociopath cheering them on. What kind of fucked up person would post about a fucking hotel and then cheer on a murderous dictator to cover them? Moscow's bitches.
FakeNoose
(32,645 posts)It's a wonder that we'd even have any allies left after this!
Roland99
(53,342 posts)Four Months After Threat To Seize Trump Towers Istanbul, Trump Gave In To Turkeys Syria Troop Pullout Demand
(December 2018)
https://www.inquisitr.com/5221546/seize-trump-towers-istanbul-syria-troop-pullout/
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)I don't think it'll be long now.
Not that it will do the Kurdish people much good.
Still In Wisconsin
(4,450 posts)I hate, hate, hate that smarmy little weasel. And that's an insult to weasels.
Happy Hoosier
(7,314 posts)This is a gift to the Turks. Why?
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)orangeanus *would* make a fawning move out of their shared lust for evil.
stopdiggin
(11,316 posts)To that end we joined forces with a genocidal dictator, and the Russians. The Kurds were useful .. but NEVER part of end game (to the extent there was one). Trump is at base level an isolationist. Doesn't believe the U.S. really has a place in this (or really any other) geopolitical situation.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)The ramifications of this...🤯
Desert_Leslie
(131 posts)Among the many evil doings lately, this one stands out to me.
Special ops teams and US troops must be appalled by this news. McCain must be rolling in his grave.
I just contacted my congresspeople (GOP). The woman I spoke to at my GOP representative's DC office seemed surprised and taken aback by this development (she must not follow the news).
This will be seen as a green light to Erdogan to begin a genocide of the Kurds. "Better hurry and do it before President Trump is voted out or impeached!"
flamingdem
(39,313 posts)Trump is monstrous and they know it.
calimary
(81,308 posts)If they think you dont care, they wont, either.
BE the squeaky wheel!
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,349 posts)They've sold out everyone except murderous dictators.
cp
(6,634 posts)I know, the bleeding obvious, but we now live in a peculiar world here in the United States.
SunSeeker
(51,571 posts)Takket
(21,575 posts)So we could rest assured decisions made about foreign matters were based on the wellbeing of the USA and not the presidents finances.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)WTF is it going to take to get these people out? They should all have been in prison a long time ago.
calimary
(81,308 posts)Good Grief...