10-10-2019, 02:24 PM
** 10-Oct-2019 What do I really think?
I'll start by making my usual disclaimer that Generational Dynamics is
like weather forecasting. There are no policy recommendations for
whether we should make it rain or be sunny, nor are there moral
judgments about rain or sun being good or bad. It just tells you
whether it will be rain or sun, and let's you decide what to do about
it. ("I report, you decide.")
Turkey has been planning for this invasion for over a year, and has
been massing forces on the border. It makes absolutely no difference
whether Trump withdraws those 50 observers or not -- sooner or later
(and probably sooner), Erdogan was going through with the invasion
no matter what.
Here's an article that gives Erdogan's position:
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/109-ter...gan-147355
My personal opinion is that maybe Trump should have announced it
differently, but that there was no choice except to withdraw the 50
soldiers from the observation posts. Furthermore, the Kurds may well
be playing us, since they know we've never committed to protecting
them for millennia into the future, and anyway, they're Communists.
We live in a world where everyone (except me) is lying, and saying
whatever they want for money, power, sex or votes. You cannot imagine
or fathom how sickened I am by what I see on the news in the world
today. With the rise of Generation-X, there is no morality left
anywhere in the world although, in my opinion, Trump is the closest we
have, especially since he's ignoring the noise and focusing on the
threat from the worst, most immoral, and most despicable liars of all,
the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
And to get snarky again, I've been through this too many times.
Anti-war Democrats supported the Iraq war before it happened, but then
later pretended that they had opposed the war all along. So here we
go again. Let's get US soldiers involved in the war between Turks and
Kurds, so that later we can pretend we were against doing anything of
the sort, and then we can impeach again. It gives me a headache and
makes me want to throw up.
So that's what I really think.
(10-10-2019, 08:42 AM)David Horn Wrote: > Setting aside the snark, what do you really think? When we
> purposely throw an ally under the bus for <insert the reason, if
> you have one>, that reason had better be a lot stronger
> than,"... they didn't fight with us in Normandy."
I'll start by making my usual disclaimer that Generational Dynamics is
like weather forecasting. There are no policy recommendations for
whether we should make it rain or be sunny, nor are there moral
judgments about rain or sun being good or bad. It just tells you
whether it will be rain or sun, and let's you decide what to do about
it. ("I report, you decide.")
Turkey has been planning for this invasion for over a year, and has
been massing forces on the border. It makes absolutely no difference
whether Trump withdraws those 50 observers or not -- sooner or later
(and probably sooner), Erdogan was going through with the invasion
no matter what.
Here's an article that gives Erdogan's position:
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/109-ter...gan-147355
My personal opinion is that maybe Trump should have announced it
differently, but that there was no choice except to withdraw the 50
soldiers from the observation posts. Furthermore, the Kurds may well
be playing us, since they know we've never committed to protecting
them for millennia into the future, and anyway, they're Communists.
We live in a world where everyone (except me) is lying, and saying
whatever they want for money, power, sex or votes. You cannot imagine
or fathom how sickened I am by what I see on the news in the world
today. With the rise of Generation-X, there is no morality left
anywhere in the world although, in my opinion, Trump is the closest we
have, especially since he's ignoring the noise and focusing on the
threat from the worst, most immoral, and most despicable liars of all,
the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
And to get snarky again, I've been through this too many times.
Anti-war Democrats supported the Iraq war before it happened, but then
later pretended that they had opposed the war all along. So here we
go again. Let's get US soldiers involved in the war between Turks and
Kurds, so that later we can pretend we were against doing anything of
the sort, and then we can impeach again. It gives me a headache and
makes me want to throw up.
So that's what I really think.
