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BREAKING: Syrian Kurds under bombardment from Turkish jets urgently request air support from U.S. and “No fly zone” to protect civilians.
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The majority of you in this thread are straight up evil.
The Kurds assisted us with fighting ISIS. Now we're letting Turkey bomb them after convincing them to dismantle their defenses. This makes no sense. Like this is the only time we SHOULD be in the middle east doing something.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 74088641 yeah we should stay there forever, bankrupt the USA to save the kurds.. The military-industrial complex isn't bankrupting us — though some on the left still cling nostalgically to the belief that it is. It's fiction. We need to be clear about this. As I've written before, one of the great uncovered stories in Washington is the defense budget vs. the welfare state. Defense is getting drubbed, exposing us to long-term risks. Whether this lesson takes hold in the campaign is unclear. The omens aren't good. The latest anti-Pentagon tirade comes in a recent issue of the New York Review of Books by Jessica T. Mathews, former president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. It's headlined “America's Indefensible Defense Budget.” Here are some of her conclusions. [ link to www.washingtonpost.com (secure)]
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