Saturday, October 12, 2019

Obsession with Turkish incursion obscures US perpetual warfare

It is unfortunate that Turkey's incursion into Kurdish Syria is preventing a long needed debate on removal of all US military from the Middle East. The war party, which hates Trump because he threatens end of US wars, loves deflecting focus from that critical priority. We're killing innocents and defiling the region on a much greater scale than the Turks, yet all the focus is directed on Turkish action, primarily I submit, as another opportunity  to get rid of Trump.  While I long for Trump's removal, successor Pence is a much greater proponent of US militarism in the region, and likely to get even more people killed than Trump and the Turks currently are. 

We can do both,  work to end the Turkish incursion, which we should acknowledge, stems from their belief the Syrian Kurd fighters represent an existential threat to their homeland, and fiercely debate end to US military action in the region. To regain the trust of the world we must stop our slaughter in the region, which dwarfs that of Turkey. 

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