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To: ocrp1982
He stated repeatedly that he favors war only if our interests are threatened and that regional powers take care of their own backyard.

Do you think it might be in our national interest to have our allies trust us not to abandon them when we get fatigued?

67 posted on 10/07/2019 9:40:35 PM PDT by semimojo
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To: semimojo

Those 1000 personnel were supposed to be there for 30 days. That 30 days passed years ago. Are we to stay there forever?
At some point the regional powers have to take responsibility for their region of the world.


85 posted on 10/08/2019 6:43:21 AM PDT by ocrp1982 (Lurking since the late 90's. Recently retired. No tagline yet.)
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To: semimojo

Which ally?

We have treaty with Turkey. The Kurds have been doing terrorist attacks against Turkey for decades.

We don’t have a treaty with the Kurds.


103 posted on 10/08/2019 6:35:14 PM PDT by redgolum (If this culture today is civilization, I will be the barbarian.)
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