The Syria thing is a huge exaggeration

I posted about this in another thread. From what I read, we moved 50-100 special ops out of the way. That's the only thing that has changed or is planned to be changed. The 1000 or so troops within Syria aren't leaving the country, at least at the moment.

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Our guys are good, but I doubt that 50 men are going to hold off 3 brigades of Turks moving in force.

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I think the point is they're not likely to frick much with Americans. If those 50 Americans get slaughtered by the Turks, the Turks would have that repaid on them 25 fold at minimum and they know it.

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I think the point is they're not likely to frick much with Americans. If those 50 Americans get slaughtered by the Turks, the Turks would have that repaid on them 25 fold at minimum and they know it.

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I'm thinking that CENTCOM did not want any accidents going down. You have that much men and material moving through along with bullets flying, shite, is bound to happen

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we withdrew 50 people out of the way of an overwhelming Turkish assault

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Correct.

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I doubt that 50 men are going to hold off 3 brigades of Turks moving in force.

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Turkey is a NATO country. It has been attacked during Kurdish incursions. Fairly simple.

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Graham retweeted a top evangelist saying pray for Christians killed because of this...

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I think the real issue is a lack of clarity or communication about what is really changing. Trump tweeting about leaving the middle east altogether while in reality we are just shifting around people in and around Syria is causing confusion.

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We are not pulling our troops out of Syria, we withdrew 50 people out of the way of an overwhelming Turkish assault. Our guys are good, but I doubt that 50 men are going to hold off 3 brigades of Turks moving in force.

This comes from an active duty LTC who is familiar with these things

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So we haven't exited Syria and ended the endless wars, we just got out of the way and abandoned our Kurdish allies to the Turks. That sounds much better.

The Kurds wanted a Kurdistan.

Itll never happen in our lifetime without a SIGNIFICANT political loss to the US and MANY MORE American deaths.

GTFO of ths Middle East.

Now.

Forever.

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damn no idea you were almost a bird

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Close, BIL is the source @ Ft Sam in S.A.

I support orange on this one. it's time to get out of the middle east.

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Then the a-holes in the MSM need to stop saying we pulled out. It's disingenuous.

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You mean the same ones who said Bush was a war criminal and warmonger for sending us there. Bush bad for going there Trump bad for leaving there. What I dont see is Obama bad for letting red line get crossed and ending this years ago.

If after almost 20 years in the area and they are not states by now and nothing is better now than before we shouldnt still be there.