10-24-2019, 12:37 PM
(10-23-2019, 11:23 AM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: ** 23-Oct-2019 World View: Trump's victory speech on Turkey and Syria
I just watched Trump's victory speech on the Turkey-Syria-Kurd situation, and have a couple of quick thoughts.
Trump said that the ceasefire would be "permanent." When I heard this, I wondered, as I often do, what comes over almost all politicians to think that they're so brilliant that they can make impossible things happen. (This is the discredited "Great Man Theory of History.")
However, I share the view that this outcome was much better than if Trump had sent in thousands of American troops to stop Turkey's invasion, as many, many people said they wanted. "Countless Kurdish lives have been saved, without the spilling of any American blood." And: "Let someone else fight on this long bloodstained sand."
Trump said that the Kurdish generals were very pleased by the outcome, since the alternative was a massacre by the Turks. He didn't mention the claim that the Kurds were betrayed. Trump said that the ISIS prisoners were under control of the Kurds, and that most of those few who had escaped had been recaptured.
Trump did not say anything about the Syrian and Russian troops in the region. In fact, he never once uttered the word "Russia." This will continue to be a controversial issue.
Trump looked very tired, much more tired than I can recall ever seeing him.
I see you get your news from the Murdock News Empire, because large parts of what you wrote here have been thoroughly debunked. Whatever you may think of the Kurds, they are far from happy. As to Trump, I'm starting a "Trump for Prison 2021" effort. Like to join?
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.
