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Turkey's Syria invasion: Member of US Special Forces says, ...
FoxNews ^ | 10/9/2019 | Jennifer Griffin,

Posted on 10/09/2019 5:17:14 PM PDT by FreeAtlanta

Turkey's Syria invasion: Member of US Special Forces says, 'I am ashamed for the first time in my career'

A member of U.S. Special Forces serving alongside the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in Syria told Fox News' Jennifer Griffin on Wednesday they were witnessing Turkish atrocities on the frontlines.

“I am ashamed for the first time in my career,” said the distraught soldier, who has been involved in the training of indigenous forces on multiple continents. The service member, whom Griffin described as "hardened," is among the 1,000 or so U.S. troops who remain in Syria.

“Turkey is not doing what it agreed to. It’s horrible,” this military source on the ground told Griffin. “We met every single security agreement. The Kurds met every single agreement [with the Turks]. There was no threat to the Turks -- none -- from this side of the border."

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: anonymoussources; braking; kurds; syria; turkey; turkeysyria
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To: FreeAtlanta

It’s not an invasion, it’s simply an incursion.

Our President has things under control.


21 posted on 10/09/2019 5:31:26 PM PDT by Meatspace
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To: Lurkinanloomin

22 posted on 10/09/2019 5:31:29 PM PDT by Diogenesis ( WWG1WGA)
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To: Magnum44

Sad to see you are so comfortable with this solider undermining policy of civilian leadership. What would have happened in WW2 to a soldier that did that? And note how few of these service members (none?) ran to the press when the kenyan was getting their buddies killed. Or when Obama botched deliberately botched the SOF agreement with Iraq. Etc., etc.


23 posted on 10/09/2019 5:31:47 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: Magnum44

Sober up


24 posted on 10/09/2019 5:32:00 PM PDT by Venkman
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To: Magnum44

Who insulted who? I merely suggested that it is not the United States position to keep the peace in Syria. Send in the United Nations.


25 posted on 10/09/2019 5:32:03 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: FreeAtlanta

Sorry, but we had no business in Syria and remember that His Arrogance was kissy-kissy with the Turkish ruler.


26 posted on 10/09/2019 5:32:21 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet
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To: dp0622

These Kurds are allies of convenience and political expediency. They’ve got a decades long track record of being radical bomb throwers. I’m not really seeing much worth saving here. Sorry.


27 posted on 10/09/2019 5:33:29 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: FreeAtlanta

Unnamed sources are like verbal contracts. Worth nothing.


28 posted on 10/09/2019 5:34:16 PM PDT by yarddog ( For I am persuaded.)
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To: Diogenesis

FauxNews is proudly proclaiming that a “record” number of Americans support impeaching President Trump.


29 posted on 10/09/2019 5:34:30 PM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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To: FreeAtlanta

He’s a moron who doesn’t understand his job.. He is too close to the situation to be objective anymore. The old term was “gone asiatic”. The fact that he is emotionally connected to that culture doesn’t make it smart US policy. We don’t throw wars for his mental health.

He needs to get his emotions in check and remember he is a US soldier, not a damned Kurd.


30 posted on 10/09/2019 5:35:35 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: yarddog
Unnamed sources are like verbal contracts. Worth nothing.

Yep, I am a bit tired of it.

31 posted on 10/09/2019 5:36:37 PM PDT by FreeAtlanta (what a mess we got ourselves into)
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To: chief lee runamok; dp0622

> It’s always possible for citizens to sneak over to help the helpless kurds. What’s stopping you? <

I never quite understood that kind of argument, chief. Because by using that logic, no one should be able to criticize, say, teachers unless you are quite prepared to drop everything and then become a teacher.


32 posted on 10/09/2019 5:37:28 PM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: The Iceman Cometh

From what I’ve read....they have ties to Antifa. Is this true?


33 posted on 10/09/2019 5:37:37 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (:¬| Beep beep)
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To: Diogenesis

You can always find someone to criticize what the President does. Griffin covered the Hillary campaign in 2016 and was downright giddy about it. You know the press will report every atrocity they find. Still, there was reason to be concerned about Turkey’s invasion even before this report.


34 posted on 10/09/2019 5:38:28 PM PDT by be-baw
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To: DesertRhino

If he is really an SF and witnessing this. Reporters can be misled.


35 posted on 10/09/2019 5:39:05 PM PDT by FreeAtlanta (what a mess we got ourselves into)
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To: dp0622
President Trump issued a more coherent statement on the U.S. military presence in Syria in four Twitter posts a few days ago than I've heard from any public official on any foreign policy matter in my lifetime.

Stop buying into the Fox News globalist propaganda. This "U.S. Special Forces member" cited in this slop had no business ever setting foot in Syria in the first place.

36 posted on 10/09/2019 5:39:11 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave." -- Frederick Douglass)
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To: Magnum44

There was no good answer for this situation.


Absolutely right. IMO anger against Trump is misplaced, but he is there so the focus is on him. Anger would better be focused on those that lead us into these quagmires. GW Bush, Obama, Hillary, and the CIA. They lead us down the primrose path to a “no win” situation for a plethora of reasons many of which were not good. Trump is trying to focus us back and the sausage making is ugly. Unless we are willing to go total war and annex these countries there are very few good outcomes. I don’t think many of us want to own these countries.


37 posted on 10/09/2019 5:39:55 PM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: FreeAtlanta
A member of U.S. Special Forces serving alongside the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in Syria told Fox News' Jennifer Griffin on Wednesday

If this were true the soldier deserves prosecution for talking to Jennifer Griffin.

38 posted on 10/09/2019 5:40:03 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: Responsibility2nd
I predicted, and you among others confirmed, that because someone, in this case one of our finest fighting soldiers, has a different opinion based on actually having spent months or years in theatre working with the Kurds while they did the heavy lifting fighting ISIS, that folks here couldn’t politely listen to his opinion and try to understand that point of view.

This is still the place where we can express different opinions, isn’t it?

39 posted on 10/09/2019 5:40:07 PM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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To: lodi90

I was SF and I’ll tell you point blank this conversation NEVER happened. Homey is not going to violate OPSEC to do a piece for Fox News. Loose his clearance and get booted? Not gonna happen. SF take orders. May not like ‘em, but you do as your told. This is complete and utter bull!!!


40 posted on 10/09/2019 5:40:13 PM PDT by Mathews (Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV), Luke 22:36 (NIV))
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