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I Joined the Army to Prevent Genocide, Not to Pave the Way for It

Rogue Valley

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I Joined the Army to Prevent Genocide, Not to Pave the Way for It

A captain wonders if the Kurdish soldiers he served alongside in Syria three months ago are now dead.

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Captain Alan Kennedy poses with a member of the allied Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).

10/18/19
In the Video Op-Ed above, Alan Kennedy, a captain in the Colorado Army National Guard who served this summer in northern Syria, condemns President Trump’s decision to fully withdraw American troops from the area and abandon our Kurdish allies to a Turkish incursion. He calls a recently negotiated 120-hour cease-fire, which reports suggest Turkey has already violated, “too little too late.” He fears that the lack of American commitment and credibility has cleared the way for an ethnic cleansing of the Kurds and a resurgence of the Islamic State. Captain Kennedy’s concerns echo the sentiments of soldiers who have had to abandon their posts reluctantly, and lawmakers who on Wednesday delivered a resounding and rare bipartisan rebuke of President Trump’s actions in Syria.
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Video @ the link above
 
That was a dumb and prosecutable thing he did.

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I'm quite certain he is not the only service member to feel that way...
 
Only Trump could be so stupid that he'd turn generals and captains against a Republican president.
 
trouble13 said:
That was a dumb and prosecutable thing he did.

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Yeah, it's really important to stay quite when a politician makes a snap decision which causes 6yo girls to be slaughtered.
 
trouble13 said:
That was a dumb and prosecutable thing he did.

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I sincerely doubt you were the same way when the chuds in the military were openly disrespecting President Obama when he was in office.
 
I live smack in the middle of the largest military complex in the entire world.

Not a single Sailor or Marine in my area are talking about Trump's Syria.

I guess if you liberals look hard enough, and long enough, you will find a few exceptions to go on to making up lies about the military wanting to stay in Syria.

Not and single Sailor or Marine (officer & enlisted) that I have spoke with, and the ones that I hang out with, want to go any wheres near Syria and the middle east.
 
It isn't just the Kurds Trump has abandoned, ultimately it's America thats been abandoned.


Trump’s Gut, and the Gutting of American Credibility
Kurds always get shafted. Still, this was American perfidy.

By Roger Cohen
Opinion Columnist
Oct. 18, 2019


LONDON — President Trump has given a master class in the unhappy link between his “gut” and the gutting of American credibility. His flippancy over the fate of the Kurds in northern Syria has been criminal in its disregard for human life, America’s friends and American interests. From Trump’s sort-of green light to Turkey’s assault on northern Syria, to his threat to “totally destroy and obliterate” the Turkish economy, to his Chamberlain-like dismissal of Kurds’ fate (“We are 7,000 miles away!”), he has played the clown in chief.

America’s word is worth less today than at any time since 1945. Trust is not an easily recoverable commodity. Solemn accords entered into by the United States, like the Iran nuclear deal, are ripped up — and replaced by empty threats. Friends like the Kurds who have shed blood to inflict great harm on the Islamic State are betrayed. Day after day a president for whom facts don’t matter dismantles the idea of truth.
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Opinion | Trump’s Gut, and the Gutting of American Credibility - The New York Times
 
RetiredUSN said:
I live smack in the middle of the largest military complex in the entire world.

Not a single Sailor or Marine in my area are talking about Trump's Syria.

I guess if you liberals look hard enough, and long enough, you will find a few exceptions to go on to making up lies about the military wanting to stay in Syria.

Not and single Sailor or Marine (officer & enlisted) that I have spoke with, and the ones that I hang out with, want to go any wheres near Syria and the middle east.
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So you live somewhere with a lot of military people and you've been in bed with every single one of them as they and their spouses talk about things.

I'll have to say that's pretty impressive.
 
I’ll wager there’ll be hell to pay for this breach of protocol; there's a time and place for everything......
 
CaughtInThe said:
So you live somewhere with a lot of military people and you've been in bed with every single one of them as they and their spouses talk about things.

I'll have to say that's pretty impressive.
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I know a hell of a lot regarding what our military thinks on current issues.

I don't sleep with them, but I golf, eat, shop, fish, and interact 100's of others almost every day when I am on the base.

Got any more non substantial or nonsense type comments?
 
RetiredUSN said:
I live smack in the middle of the largest military complex in the entire world.

Not a single Sailor or Marine in my area are talking about Trump's Syria.

I guess if you liberals look hard enough, and long enough, you will find a few exceptions to go on to making up lies about the military wanting to stay in Syria.

Not and single Sailor or Marine (officer & enlisted) that I have spoke with, and the ones that I hang out with, want to go any wheres near Syria and the middle east.
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After two and a half years of glancing at your posts, I find it difficult to put any stock in what you write........
 
Rogue Valley said:
I Joined the Army to Prevent Genocide, Not to Pave the Way for It

A captain wonders if the Kurdish soldiers he served alongside in Syria three months ago are now dead.

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Captain Alan Kennedy poses with a member of the allied Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).



Video @ the link above
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Anyone who joins the US armed forces and thinks they going to end up doing something good in their job needs their head checking.

With a history of being the worst invader, the biggest interferer in other countries, especially those with oil, Venezuela, Iran, Iraq, Libya for example, how do they expect to be sent somewhere to do good?
 
Rexedgar said:
I’ll wager there’ll be hell to pay for this breach of protocol; there's a time and place for everything......
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If finally speaking up when four-year-old little boys are being slaughtered is not the time, when is the time? Does humanity trump military procedure?
 
ocean515 said:
Why does Capt. Kennedy believe the Kurdish soldiers he trained are inferior?
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Well a bunch of their bodies are now rotting on the ground. So those would be inferior.
 
CaughtInThe said:
If finally speaking up when four-year-old little boys are being slaughtered is not the time, when is the time? Does humanity trump military procedure?
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I am in full agreement with the captain. When he raised his right hand, he swore to obey the legal commands of those appointed over him. Up to now Trump hasn’t issued any illegal orders

All I am pointing out is there will be consequences for going on the record. Rock/hard place......
 
If this snap decision about the kurds but Trump has confirmed anything it's that a ton of Republican people simply have no humanity.

We all knew it. They've just been lying about it for decades.
 
RetiredUSN said:
I know a hell of a lot regarding what our military thinks on current issues.

I don't sleep with them, but I golf, eat, shop, fish, and interact 100's of others almost every day when I am on the base.

Got any more non substantial or nonsense type comments?
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Yours was the nonsense comment. You said that no people thought a certain way in a facility with a ton of people.

What you really meant to say was that publicly, as you interacted with them, the small subset of people you deal with have not said anything.

You don't know what everyone in your entire "area" thinks. Sorry.
 
ocean515 said:
Perhaps Capt. Kennedy didn't do his job very well?
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That's a good Rush Limbaugh/Sean Hannity follower. Attack soldiers if they cross your favorite politician.

Is your couch comfortable this morning?
 
Rexedgar said:
After two and a half years of glancing at your posts, I find it difficult to put any stock in what you write........
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CaughtInThe said:
Yours was the nonsense comment. You said that no people thought a certain way in a facility with a ton of people.

What you really meant to say was that publicly, as you interacted with them, the small subset of people you deal with have not said anything.

You don't know what everyone in your entire "area" thinks. Sorry.
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Three years for me.... and I know of no one who respects his credibility.
 
RetiredUSN said:
I live smack in the middle of the largest military complex in the entire world.

Not a single Sailor or Marine in my area are talking about Trump's Syria.
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I've posted numerous threads and links [in posts] here that say otherwise including Adm. William H. McRaven. These military individuals are well appreciated for speaking truth to power.

You on the other hand are another party over country individual.
 
CaughtInThe said:
That's a good Rush Limbaugh/Sean Hannity follower. Attack soldiers if they cross your favorite politician.

Is your couch comfortable this morning?
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Not attacking. Just asking questions in response to this appeal to emotion from the NYT.

Oh, and I'm not sitting on the couch. You? Couch?
 
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