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Trump's Syria plan reveals a master strategist in the White House
American Thinker ^ | October 16, 2019 | Richard Jack Rail

Posted on 10/16/2019 11:03:13 AM PDT by Hojczyk

Everybody thought we had to keep our troops around so the Turks wouldn't invade Northern Syria and kill off all the Kurds. Everybody wanted them to negotiate with the Kurds and figured the only way to do that was little by little, by getting allies to reason with Turkey and hem and haw and maybe buy her off as in times past. Meanwhile, we had to keep the two ancient enemies, Kurds and Turks, apart.

Negotiations would ever happen only if our troops stayed.

Trump saw the situation differently. As beautifully laid out by Sundance at Conservative Treehouse, removing our guys would leave the intransigent Turks vulnerable to an alliance against them of their many enemies in the region. This thought didn't occur to Turkish president Recep Erdoğan, who at first seemed delighted that we were leaving and promptly dispatched his troops into Syria, as everybody had predicted he would.

Not so fast, fellas. The actual result hasn't been quite what everyone expected. Erdoğan suddenly understood the box he was in when Trump authorized Treasury secretary Mnuchin to prepare sanctions against Turkey. By themselves, sanctions haven't succeeded much in that part of the world. But in concert with the departure of the U.S., they became a scary signal that Turkey was all by her lonesome. Having steadfastly refused to negotiate, Erdoğan now nervously rang up Trump and asked for an emergency conference. Trump sent Vice President Pence and national security adviser O'Brien to mediate negotiations with the Kurds.

These are the long sought negotiations, brought about by U.S. troops leaving.

Trump once again exhibits strategic insight not seen in the White House since George Washington.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Russia; Syria
KEYWORDS: dsj02; erdogan; kurdistan; receptayyiperdogan; richardjackrail; russia; sundance; syria; treehouse; trumpforeignpolicy; trumpsyria; turkey
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To: ptsal

Lindsay Graham, Michael Savage and half a dozen generals including Maddog Maddass don’t agree...


21 posted on 10/16/2019 11:48:16 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: Sam Gamgee

Erdogan I think welcomes the sanctions...


22 posted on 10/16/2019 11:49:05 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: forgotten man

Yes, and the Russians aren’t going to fight the Turks either.


23 posted on 10/16/2019 11:49:40 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: yoe

LOL


24 posted on 10/16/2019 11:50:35 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Hojczyk; holdonnow

30 second neocon clock. Go....


25 posted on 10/16/2019 12:03:57 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: Hojczyk

Love President Trump!


26 posted on 10/16/2019 12:14:53 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Hojczyk

Syria is ALL Obama era BS.


27 posted on 10/16/2019 12:21:07 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Hojczyk

I don’t understand why they don’t just go to U.S. District Judge Jon S. Tigar in San Francisco and get him to issue a worldwide injunction against the Turks attacking the Kurds in Syria. /s


28 posted on 10/16/2019 12:29:10 PM PDT by etcb
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To: Hojczyk

Moral of the story; professional politicians aren’t.

It takes someone who can think outside the box of norms to put the pieces together in a way that works.

Time will tell if this strategy works in the long run but what we were doing wasn’t working and it was costing a butt load of money and lives. Sometimes the tree must be shaken to dislodge the nuts.


29 posted on 10/16/2019 12:49:45 PM PDT by Boomer (Our melting pot has turned into a pressure cooker)
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To: Hojczyk

Should Trump’s visage be on Washington’s right or Lincoln’s left?


30 posted on 10/16/2019 1:01:08 PM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba (Socialism is great, 300 million dead Socialist martyrs can't be wrong)
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To: InterceptPoint

I’m curious what “holes” you see in the referenced article? I see some.

For one, it may have been optimistic for the writer to say Erdogan “urgently” asked for Trump to mediate. Who knows how urgent it was. Urgent implies Erdogan was desperate. I don’t think he is, especially since there are 50 US nukes stationed there.

And two, if you watch the Pence video on that article, he doesn’t technically say that Erdogan requested that Trump negotiate with the Kurds.

One has to make the connection with Erdogan’s phone call to Trump and his promise to not attack Kobani (the Kurdish city) - and assume that that constitutes Trump acting as a mediator.

Your comments?


31 posted on 10/16/2019 1:05:37 PM PDT by AlanGreenSpam (Obama: The First 'American IDOL' President - sponsored by Chicago NeoCom Thugs)
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To: Sam Gamgee

Such negativity!


32 posted on 10/16/2019 1:06:34 PM PDT by gdc61 (LOL not.)
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To: InterceptPoint

I agree, a quick lasting peace is not likely... The Kurds want an independent state, they do engage in terrorism in attempt to get it, in Turkey and other places....

They aren’t likely to “back off” easily... However, keeping 2 or more groups who have been fighting and killing each other for centuries from continuing to kill each other is no reason, in and of itself, for our soldiers to be in harms way.


33 posted on 10/16/2019 1:09:38 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: Hojczyk

Trump could have done a better PR job...our enemies are out in force on this.


34 posted on 10/16/2019 1:15:54 PM PDT by rrrod
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To: rrrod

You can’t do a big PR job when you work at Trump’s speed. It is his speed of correct actions that is keeping most people BEHIND the timeline. Pelosi praising the new resolution earlier shows you how far behind the actual time she is. She just looks totally uninformed, and boringly political. It is lightning negotiating moves like this that will catch the rest if the world totally off guard. This is strike first. Other Presidents relied in the snail’s pace if the United Nations...giving the enemy ample time for defensive preparation...(costing American lives). At first I wondered...but from now on, I’ll follow this LEADER!


35 posted on 10/16/2019 1:35:54 PM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag (Congress is not made up of leaders however they are representatives of their voters.)
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To: ThePatriotsFlag

Good point...Trump is waaay ahead with his actions. Good but doesn’t give time for allies to take a stand.


36 posted on 10/16/2019 1:39:31 PM PDT by rrrod
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To: ptsal

Jon Bolton is a neocon War-Whore.


37 posted on 10/16/2019 1:45:39 PM PDT by 60Gunner (The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. - Plato)
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To: AlanGreenSpam

You have it exactly. The problems you note are my “big holes”. If the original Treehouse story was actually correct this would be a huge story and would totally vindicate Trump’s decision.


38 posted on 10/16/2019 1:51:22 PM PDT by InterceptPoint (Ted, you finally endorsed.)
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To: Hojczyk

Like I always say, Best president since George Washington.

Trump is a genius and a political genius.

First Minnesota, next CALIFORNIA!


39 posted on 10/16/2019 1:53:36 PM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: Hojczyk

All we had to do was wait a little while.


40 posted on 10/16/2019 1:55:48 PM PDT by an amused spectator (Mitt Romney, Chuck Schumer's p*ssboy)
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