goldenequity
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Love the way he says, "we take a big chunk of Syria" because taking a small chunk to create a safe zone wouldn't be enough.
Love the way he says, "we take a big chunk of Syria" because taking a small chunk to create a safe zone wouldn't be enough.
Russian plane en route to Syria reported crashed with national choir aboard.
They're coming to America??The infested little creatures can now easily crawl back into the cesspool that bred them.

I guess the victory party is cancelled.
Don't fall for the 'safe zone' con... no matter who 'explains' it.I don't get it,
Don't fall for the 'safe zone' con... no matter who 'explains' it.
Don't you think we have any obligation to arm them so that they can defend themselves since we already armed their enemies? I don't think anyone has the golden bullet to the "Russia" problem, but atleast in the case with the Iraqi government, when we gave them arms they threw up their hands and let ISIS come in, then begged Russia to come in to save them from ISIS.at least I can say his plan for safe space is not as horrible as Rand's plan to forcibly carve out space in Syria and Iraq for the Kurds.
Can anyone imagine Rand proposing craving up France, Germany and Italy for the Gypsies?
Don't you think we have any obligation to arm them so that they can defend themselves since we already armed their enemies? I don't think anyone has the golden bullet to the "Russia" problem, but atleast in the case with the Iraqi government, when we gave them arms they threw up their hands and let ISIS come in, then begged Russia to come in to save them from ISIS.
I've seen him say that the Kurds should have the ability to fight for their independence, but he is talking about arming the kurds because the kurds have been the biggest enemies of ISIS and Turkey has armed ISIS to use them as a tool against the Kurds. Turkey is fully enabled to do this by us. There is Kurdish blood on our hands, and giving them the ability to defend themselves is not the same as toppling Gaddafi or Saddam.Rand is not talking about arming them to defend themselves, he is talking about arming them so they can defend themselves from their host country. He has been talking about his plan to arm the Kurds so they can break away.
I've seen him say that the Kurds should have the ability to fight for their independence, but he is talking about arming the kurds because the kurds have been the biggest enemies of ISIS and Turkey has armed ISIS to use them as a tool against the Kurds. Turkey is fully enabled to do this by us. There is Kurdish blood on our hands, and giving them the ability to defend themselves is not the same as toppling Gaddafi or Saddam.
Yea, I hear you. But unlike people like Rand, I see no difference between shia, christian, sunni, druze or Kurds blood. If anything I have less sympathy for the Kurds seeing as they have abused the generosity of their host countries to assist the west into attacking and dividing them.
If the Kurds what to fight for their independence, let them give it a try. They would see what happens when you try to take something that doesn't belong to you.
Kurds = Geopolitical Tarbaby (if you've ever worked w/ tar on roofs, you know what I'm talking about.)
They are extremely 'fungible' / useful in the 'dark arts' of terror and power politics...
like having 'Wildcards' in a poker game, serious players hate it.
I can make a case (or you can investigate)
how the 'clever' Israelis have been incestuously 'involved'
with the Kurd 'leadership' since the 1960's...
leading right to present day Barzani himself w/ peshmerga in Erbil.
And BELIEVE me when I say it's NOT
about the 'Kurds' as an ethnic/downtrodden minority.
It's about using them as 'anti-matter' to the Sovereign States of Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria.
Surprise. (not) Hell.. many have joined and fight with ISIS, traffic/transport ISIS oil/drugs etc.
I am NO ENEMY of the Kuridsh plight however.
I just recognize how infested and complex it is... even within the Kurd community.
My hope?
That (at least) the Rojavans can organize and unify amongst themselves,
resist any 'help' from the divisive Western hegemons (especially US, UK & Israel)
and swear allegiance to the Syrian State.
Sound simple?
Believe me... it's not... actually borderline 'hopeless'. SDF is ALREADY 'fracturing' as we speak. (sigh.)
I think he's done 10,000 interviews, and each one gives him a little soundbyte to add to his foreign policy. I've tried watching as many as I can. I have never seen him say that every ethnic nomadic group has a right to a homeland. I think if the United States used the Kurds as a proxy to fight our wars, then the least we can do is arm them to defend themselves from our weapons.This 100x, I think the Kurds are used as a proxy to divide and carve up these states that are not very friendly to the US and Rand is falling for the propaganda that they are mistreated or need a homeland like every ethnic nomadic group have a right to a homeland.
Heck even the American Indians don't have a homeland in the US and I would challenge Rand to create a true homeland for them before trying to meddle in someone else business
I think he's done 10,000 interviews, and each one gives him a little soundbyte to add to his foreign policy. I've tried watching as many as I can. I have never seen him say that every ethnic nomadic group has a right to a homeland. I think if the United States used the Kurds as a proxy to fight our wars, then the least we can do is arm them to defend themselves from our weapons.
I didn't mean to say that he wants every ethnic group in the world to have a homeland. Thats why I said "like" in the sentence.
Also, why punish the people that the Kurds have betrayed by further carving out their countries to give to the betrayers? Its like a tenant that helped the police arrest the landlord for some victimless crime and after the tenant snitch has been exposed. The police compensate the backstabbing snake of a tenant by seizing a portion of the building to give to this backstabber.
American has a lot of empty land they dont use. Rand can start by giving them something they actually own not try and steal from another nation to give to the Kurds. If I was the president of a country with Kurds inside it. I will be preparing laws this minute to deport every single one of them out of the country.
Are you saying that Rand Paul while running for president should of campaigned on leaving the middle east and bringing people from the middle east back to America with us, instead of leaving the middle east and letting them fight their own battles, or do you think he should of gone the full Trump and said he had no middle east policy.