No one seems to be able to articulate the problem with "surrendering" the Middle East to regional powers other than it is unthinkable. Very reminiscent of the bipartisan rhetoric that kept the US in Vietnamhttps://twitter.com/WillHurd/status/1181251012956475392 …
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I don't think a policy of abandoning either Kurds or Afghans to a grisly fate is moral, but I believe it is instructive to see these shibboleths of the US establishment so clearly on display. Impeachment may fail, but both parties will unite around the need for permanent war
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The truly brave thing for the United States to do would be to offer immigrant visas to populations in danger when it winds down its military commitments. We owe it to people who fought with us
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The Indochina Migration and Refugee Assistance Act in 1975 was too little, too late, but this flawed piece of legislation could serve as a model. The US benefitted immensely from what it thought was a grudging act of charityhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indochina_Migration_and_Refugee_Assistance_Act …
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Tying military involvement abroad to waves of legal immigration would also have a salutary effect on Republican hawkishness. We'd either get our old isolationist Republican party back, or get the globalist one back, not the nativist status quo
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Alternatively, when he betrays an ally, exposes tens of thousands of their people to death, and enables ISIS fighters to go free, but sure, the psychological comfort to an American of saying there are no American troops in Syria trumps the actual lives of the people living there.
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Normally I'd agree with you. But the Kurds seem to be about the only democratic, progressive force in the region. Using them to fight ISIS and then abandoning them and greenlighting their slaughter and suppression by the Turks is a horror. Good background: https://theintercept.com/2019/10/07/kurds-syria-turkey-trump-betrayal/ …
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Betraying the Kurds is a tradition in American foreign policy
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This is bothsidesism. Only one side is suddenly, miraculously offended at trump today.
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I'm not following the US political news closely so I don't understand this reference
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