Though the one-time strongly isolationist tendency within America has only again latterly found a championing voice under the unlikely Administration of Donald J Trump, and a 'Republican' President to boot, it's a problematic conundrum now facing the *Yanks, presenting no easy answers or readymade solution, that's for sure...
...although as folk will have heard, if Turkey's dictatorial strongman Erdogan proceeds to take it to the (Syrian) Kurds, he'll quickly receive a short, sharp response from you know who...
But who would have thought or imagined it'd be 'the Donald' who'd - and not before time - decide to summarily remove American troops from their decades-old, seeming never-ending engagement in the ever-fraught, war-torn and misery-ravaged Middle East?
Yes, who'd have thought...it wouldn't be one of the United States' budding radical, 'progressive' Democratic contenders...but a 'reactionary' such as President Trump?
Yes, who'd have thought?
But if it's at the cost/expense of the lives of Kurdish freedom fighters valiantly holding the Islamist fascists at bay throughout that problematic region...
...then it's a step too far...or rather, rashly, even recklessly premature...
All power to the Kurds: let's support 'em while we can...-the alternative, folks, is too scary to contemplate...truly, seriously...
*Used entirely tongue-in-cheek, not to give a subtle dig at 'em...
...although as folk will have heard, if Turkey's dictatorial strongman Erdogan proceeds to take it to the (Syrian) Kurds, he'll quickly receive a short, sharp response from you know who...
But who would have thought or imagined it'd be 'the Donald' who'd - and not before time - decide to summarily remove American troops from their decades-old, seeming never-ending engagement in the ever-fraught, war-torn and misery-ravaged Middle East?
Yes, who'd have thought...it wouldn't be one of the United States' budding radical, 'progressive' Democratic contenders...but a 'reactionary' such as President Trump?
Yes, who'd have thought?
But if it's at the cost/expense of the lives of Kurdish freedom fighters valiantly holding the Islamist fascists at bay throughout that problematic region...
...then it's a step too far...or rather, rashly, even recklessly premature...
All power to the Kurds: let's support 'em while we can...-the alternative, folks, is too scary to contemplate...truly, seriously...
*Used entirely tongue-in-cheek, not to give a subtle dig at 'em...
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