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Posted on 10/9/19 at 8:54 am to GeneralLee
Serious question. Why is this issue so important to you?
Posted on 10/9/19 at 8:55 am to Janky
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Am I to understand that the only keeping Turkey out was 50 of our soldiers? Damn, we are better than I thought.
force multipliers.....
and hand full of American operators took out 200+ Russian mercs in Syria
Posted on 10/9/19 at 8:55 am to TopFlightSecurity
The YPG is Marxist buddy.
Posted on 10/9/19 at 8:56 am to StraightCashHomey21
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force multipliers.....
and hand full of American operators took out 200+ Russian mercs in Syria
So, yes? 50 of our soldiers are preventing an entire country from invading?
This post was edited on 10/9/19 at 8:57 am
Posted on 10/9/19 at 8:57 am to Janky
quote:Not sure, but I will say that this is a decent start. If this is the only movement out of the Middle East though, I will have my doubts about why. We have been in Afghanistan for almost 20 years - we need to leave ASAP
What would old topflightsecurity's exit strategy be?
Posted on 10/9/19 at 8:58 am to Janky
quote:Well, yes. If Turkey were to kill those 50 soldiers, what do you think the ramifications of that would be?
50 of our soldiers are preventing an entire country from invading?
Posted on 10/9/19 at 9:01 am to Yak
Not sure but I personally don't believe we are the sole reason they have not invaded.
Posted on 10/9/19 at 9:02 am to Janky
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So, yes? 50 of our soldiers are preventing an entire country from invading?
yea the amount of power that hand full of troops could produce would do real damage.
Posted on 10/9/19 at 9:02 am to Janky
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So we stay forever?
No but we leaned on the Kurds to help us fight ISIS in Syria...there are better ways to leave than just pulling the plug overnight and leaving them set up for slaughter.
The real problem I have is we were doing joint patrols with the Turks on the border and that gave them a look at Kurd defenses and as part of that the Kurds also dismantled some of their defenses. We gave Turks an unfair leg up in the coming fight.
To answer do we stay there forever - no. We're never going to fix the Turkish - Kurd tensions but if it were up to me I'd use our leverage over Turkey to create a safe zone in Iraq Kurdistan and give the Kurds time to leave the contested area in Syria. Once that deadline passed anyone who stayed can't complain about a Turkish invasion since they had time to go to Iraq Kurdistan.
Posted on 10/9/19 at 9:02 am to Jbird
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Kind of a mini I B Chinaman.
I thought the same.
Posted on 10/9/19 at 9:02 am to GeneralLee
Good thing we're moving our 50 troops out, huh?
Posted on 10/9/19 at 9:03 am to StraightCashHomey21
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So, yes? 50 of our soldiers are preventing an entire country from invading?
yea the amount of power that hand full of troops could produce would do real damage
It's not just that 50 it's what they stand for. Turkey could easily invade and overrun a company minus worth of dudes but the fallout would be so severe they wouldn't consider it.
Posted on 10/9/19 at 9:04 am to TopFlightSecurity
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if it were up to me I'd use our leverage over Turkey
I believe Trump said as much when he threatened to destroy their economy, no?
Posted on 10/9/19 at 9:04 am to StraightCashHomey21
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yea the amount of power that hand full of troops could produce would do real damage.
Ok.
Posted on 10/9/19 at 9:05 am to Yak
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Not sure, but I will say that this is a decent start. If this is the only movement out of the Middle East though, I will have my doubts about why. We have been in Afghanistan for almost 20 years - we need to leave ASAP
I'n all for a full withdrawal from Afghanistan.
My problem with this one is we talked the Kurds into going in with us and helping us now we just reversed course.
It's like saying you don't want to get into barfights which is fine and completely logical. But the time to do it is before going into a bar and starting one.
Posted on 10/9/19 at 9:06 am to TopFlightSecurity
They could sacrifice 200-300 of their troops to kill those 50, but then tge U.S. would turn Astana into glass and make Istanbul Constantinople again.
Posted on 10/9/19 at 9:07 am to SDVTiger
We need more coexist bumper stickers, that should end it.
Posted on 10/9/19 at 9:07 am to Janky
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I believe Trump said as much when he threatened to destroy their economy, no?
We see that;s working real well since Turkey has promptly invaded.
"We're gonna pull out and let you invade northern Syria but if you are real imhumane I'm going to destroy your economy."
Also threatened to obliterate nK and instead gave them a bunch of photo ops as they continue to test missiles.
Posted on 10/9/19 at 9:07 am to GeneralLee
Time someone else in NATO carried some of the load.
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