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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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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Didn’t you know the what, ten or fifteen American soldiers who have died there = Vietnam.
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It sure sounds like you think it’s moral when you say no one has explained why abandoning them is a problem other than being unthinkable, and compare not abandoning them to the Vietnam War.
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My take is that this is (I think) the 4th time the US has promised alliance & assistance to the Kurds, & then reneged. And that’s not only immoral, it’s utter foolishness to advertise to the world that we’re not to be trusted. Not that we are ofc.
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The Democrats have been pretty united against Trump long before Erdogan made this call to explain to Trump what a Kurd even is, so this rings unfair in its “both parties” tone
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