By CONRAD BLACK, Special to the Sun | October 9, 2019
There are three angles for assessing President Trump's announcement of an agreement on Syria with Turkey, even though, like the similar announcement that apparently caused the resignation of Defense Secretary James Mattis last year, it has been qualified ambiguously. The ambition to reduce the American presence in Syria should be seen in the context of domestic American politics, its practical effects on the ground, and its broader strategic implications...........
There is a widespread fatigue in the United States over its 18 years of steady involvement in Middle Eastern war, with its principal accomplishment of delivering influence over the Shiite 60% of Iraq from Saddam Hussein to the Iranian ayatollahs...........The area where Americans are being withdrawn is a small piece of the puzzle..........As a practical matter, the Kurds have no prospect of gaining independence anywhere except in the remains of Iraq, where the current rioting confirms the almost complete failure of the George W. Bush post-Saddam nation-building policy. There is no solution in sight to the general Kurdish problem....... To Read More....
My Take - Trump is delivering on a campaign promise to get America out of these unending military expeditions. Expeditions that have no definable end goal. Expeditions that cost America our men and our wealth. Expeditions with "allies" who would turn on us in a nanosecond if it was to their benefit. Expeditions of folly to bring peace to the Middle East. An area of the world filled with Muslim leaders. Islam is a criminal movement masquerading as a religion with the moral foundation of greed, lust, hate and violence. Those are the underlying values, emotions and motivations of Islam, and there's no fixing the Middle East as a result.
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