No No. Trump needs to go to war with Turkey now... Obviously that would be a show of "strength". Have Americans die for "perception".
Eloquent comment on NYT op-ed piece: “No question that Trump bungled the withdrawal. But the most important question we can ask does having our troops in Syria, in harm's way, in life or death situations every day ...does that serve the national interest? The answer, of course, is absolutely not. How many of you reading this are willing to sacrifice your son or daughter for the Kurds, for Syrian freedom? Because that's what we're really talking about at the end of the day. More of our soldiers getting maimed or killed. The U.S. has been mired in the Middle East since the 1970s. What do we have to show for it? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Nothing except the trillions of dollars we've wasted trying to solve this region's problems. Nothing except the thousands of American soldiers brought home in body bags. Nothing except the 900 billion we will spend on medical care & disability benefits for veterans who fought in the Middle East. And after all this wasted money & lives the region is as bad as it has ever been, worse. And the opposition's brilliant solution to this terrible ongoing tragedy is always to waste more money, to put more boots on the ground, to put more American lives at risk. It's an unwinnable war. We still have soldiers in Afghanistan with no end in sight. Am I the only one who finds this revolting? We need to get out of Syria now, not next year, not next month, now. As John Kerry said about Vietnam "How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?"
A rare moment for the NYT, however they could have quoted someone other than John Kerry (who served in Vietnam in case he didn't mention it enough)
