Hodj Proved Salty: A Tranny's Victory Thread

hodj said:

Pretty sure its like low grade pneumonia.

Prolly go to the doctor in the morning. I took a hot shower, vicks vaporubed that shit down, took some decongestant painkiller and it helped ease it off some

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Erronius said:

Making dinner so eh.

If I had to choose between a pissing contest with Russia in Ukraine, versus the porridge of diarrhea we ended up with in Syria, I'd choose the former with no hesitation. The Crimea really bothers me much more than Syria does. We can't fix Syria, but we could have helped Ukraine. Instead it looks like prior administrations simply balked.

The other thing about Trump and Syria is...and maybe it's just me...is that Trump says a lot of shit because he's trying to play to a crowd, or he's throwing something out there because one particular notion or another stuck in his noggin (maybe he just got done watching Fox & Friends) and he's then going to see how well received it will be. If it's not well received, sooner or later there's a very good chance he'll relent and backtrack.

So after all the shit Trump got about pulling troops out, there were stories about a reversal of sorts with troops staying, and then people whined and cried about that, too. The way I see it, most of the opposition to Trump wanting to pull troops out, was solely because it was Trump who was saying it.

I disagreed with him giving Turkey the green light, and then backtracking afterwards...but honestly...unless we're going to stay there indefinitely (we wont) at some point we wont be there to shield the Kurds and their desire for a free Kurdistan, and Turkey would probably still decide to go after them anyways. Not to mention, Erdogan didn't ask for permission. It sounds more and more like he simply told Trump what he was about to do. A sort of 'deconfliction' if you will.



So, we were allied with the Kurds for about a decade+. I'm pretty pro-Kurd myself. I still remember being in northern Iraq when terrorists were driving concrete trucks full of explosives into Kurdish territory and just murking them on principle. The Middle East is a really fucked up place, and of all the different factions present, the Kurds at least seemed to be reasonable.

Thing is...we all know what the Kurds want. Have we EVER had a policy to help our allies in that regard?

Nope. All we've ever done is take advantage of them when the situation arose.

See, if we had some sort of policy concerning Kurdish independence, I'd probably feel differently. I feel we probably should at least throw such a policy on the table when dealing with Iran/Iraq/Syria/Turkey with the caveat that should anyone seek to destroy the Kurds, we'd then support Independence.

Unfortunately, we don't have anything resembling that. There's no endgame with the Kurds, you know? What would we be working towards by staying there? Especially when Erdogan called Trump's bluff and declared...not asked...that he was going to roll into Syria, and that Trump could move our assets out, or else.

All we've really done is take advantage of the Kurds to fight ISIS, but we've never felt compelled to seek a paradigm shift in their favor. As such, the Kurds probably need to change tack and try working with the regional nations a bit more. Which they weren't doing as long as we were there.

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