Congress set for showdown with Trump over Kurds

The Hill ^ | 10/09/19 06:11 PM EDT | JORDAIN CARNEY AND REBECCA KHEEL

[Right_in_Virginia]

I didn’t know a president/CIC required a declaration of peace from Congress before withdrawing from a war/non-war.

QFT

[lodi90]

The EU could stop Erdie. Why hasn’t it?

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And NATO. I imagine Trump could convene some sort of emergency NATO meeting over this. Get your popcorn for that one.

[mewzilla]

US membership in NATO has outlived its usefulness.

[JonPreston]

Only two sides to pick from, you are either for ISIS or the Kurds

Hogwash, the third choice is supporting the American taxpayer and the Trump base, both of whom have had enough of the bloody Bush Doctrine.

[Right_in_Virginia]

The PKK. Have the neocons on this thread distinguished between the Kurdish factions, or are they all blinded by the bloodlust of General Lindsey Graham?

I vote for blinded.

[mewzilla]

Trump hasn’t done it because the EU/NATO wouldn’t be on board with what Trump wants to do.

Which should be another screaming five alarm warning to us about the real interests/goals of our so-called allies.

[nathanbedford]

I have thought for some time about this "Trump gotta be Trump” rationalization and I react several levels.

First on the intellectual level, I think it is ridiculous to believe that Trump needs to be needlessly coarse in order to be effective, indeed, they say he could not have achieved the presidency without the boorishness. I reject that.

On an emotional level, I get angry when his borderline language is distorted to attack him even as I intellectually know that he is setting himself up for just such an attack.

His imprecision of language, for example in the Charlottesville matter, left him vulnerable to just such scurrilous libels. He has to take some responsibility to his supporters for making their job harder by his looseness of language to come to his defense. His policies should win him 40 states but his imprecision of language whether witting, just a bad old habit, or a function of mild Tourette's will cost him a few. He will survive impeachment, but again, our job has been made harder.

[nathanbedford]

The EU could stop Erdie. Why hasn’t it?

I have no idea what you mean by this oft repeated question? I suspect it contains a false premise.

[chris37]

I support Trump.

I don’t support the GOP at all on anything.

[Alberta's Child]

Back in Democrat-controlled Senate was gearing up to pass a bipartisan Senate bill to authorize the U.S. military action in Syria — which had already been ongoing for more than two years at that point.

The measure went nowhere because polls were showing that 70% of Americans opposed the Syria campaign.

President Trump isn’t the one who walked into a trap here.

[csvset]

Lest we forget, it was the Deep State CIA that fomented the Syrian “civil war” . Coming off their *cough* “success” *cough* in Libya, (remember that “war” ?) Obama /Hillary/Deep State/CIA set their sights on Syria.

So, all the hand wringers that want to perpetuate the USA’s involvement in Syria, haven’t we done enough over there already ?

[ScottinVA]

Well said; I completely agree. I certainly understand and appreciate the need to extricate from needless wars, but the Kurds (especially the Peshmerga of Northern Iraq) have been our steadiest allies over there, and I don’t support actions that yank the rug from under them. I’m hoping there’s a contingency plan in place that hasn’t been made public that’ll forestall a disastrous result.

[Alberta's Child]

Sorry ... that’s back in 2013.

[The Toll]

I’m sure they will say many things. One thing they won’t say is “I am resigning and going to defend the Kurds with my own life”.

[trebb]

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) warned that unless Turkey changes its behavior “everything is on the table,” including “suspending arms sales, to suspending economic aid to even considering their status in NATO.”

Let's see the Congress actually deploy troops......what would happen if the Congress declared a war and the CINC didn't fight it?

[Mercat]

He’s the CIC and I trust him.

[Buckeye McFrog]

It seems BOTH parties are going to saw off the branch behind themselves over a war the majority did not want.

[unread]

"It’s not our job to partition lands."

Funny how the dimocraps love walls everywhere, but not to save our own country.. Go figure... :(

[Iscool]

Romney and Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) are urging Senate Foreign Relations Committee leadership to have administration officials testify before the panel and “explain to the American people how betraying an ally and ceding influence to terrorists and adversaries is not disastrous for our national security interests.”

Bunk...If Congress wants a war, they can start a war...No one needs to testify about anything...Just more theater to turn the public against Trump...

[InterceptPoint]

No offense, but that’s idiotic.
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Spot on. I agree with you 110%.