A Kurdish fighter from the People's Protection Units (YPG) fires his weapon from a house in Raqqa, Syria June 21, 2017. © Goran Tomasevic / Reuters
Al-Monitor: US faces uphill battle recouping arms from Syrian Kurds
The Donald Trump administration plans to ask Kurdish fighters in Syria to return US weapons loaned for the fight against the Islamic State (IS), but the administration is not ending all support despite growing pressure from NATO ally Turkey.
The message from White House and Pentagon officials on Monday appeared to walk back assertions from Turkey’s top diplomat that Trump had promised to cease support to Kurdish elements of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). Turkey considers the group’s Kurdish faction, the People’s Protection Units (YPG), to be a terrorist group.
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WNU Editor: Good luck on the Americans getting their weapons back.
Why should they?,what has been their payoff for doing the bulk of the heavy lifting?
ReplyDelete"They use it you lose it" is the proper definition.
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"From my cold dead hands" is the response.
Our nation has betrayed a staunch ally and has allowed Russian and Iranian help to keep Assad in power, and so: we lost
ReplyDeleteWhat Fazman said.
ReplyDeleteWe have not lost yet. Give a few weeks to a few months.
ReplyDeleteSadly we cannot focus the Kurds, because it is all about the sexual escapades of Lauer, Garrison Keillor, Conyers, FrankenSenator and many others.
Lauer was already on probation and now new stuff came out.
Trump,Bill o riley,moore,ailes... the list is never ending..
ReplyDeleteThe list of Leftists is far longer.
ReplyDeleteI have read of a few of the Trump accusers and they were not believable. Like the one that sent a note a year after her supposed horrible meeting with Trump.