1. Of course, that is the mission of government school, owned and operated by Democrats/Progressives.
The Kurd kerfuffle is a case in point.
Trump promised disengagement from the perpetual wars of the Middle East....who complained then?
Now, saving American soldier's lives isn't important.
2. America made promises....in writing.....to the Ukraine, which Hussein didn't choose to fulfill,
....we'd protect them from a Russian invasion if they turned over nuclear weapons....
...and you had no problem with his refusal.....but now you choose to support Marxists and use this move as a cudgel to beat an American President.
On December 5, 1994
the leaders of
Ukraine, Russia, Britain and
the United States signed
a memorandum to provide
Ukraine with security assurances
in connection with its accession to
the NPT as
a non-
nuclear weapon state.
Nuclear weapons and Ukraine - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Nuclear_weapons_and_Ukraine
3. Who, exactly are we there to defend???
A quick trip to Wikipedia:
"The
Kurdistan Workers' Party or
PKK (
Kurdish: Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê
[a]) is a Kurdish far-left
militant and political organization based in
Turkey and
Iraq. Since 1984 the PKK has been involved in
an armed conflict with the Turkish state (with a two-year cease-fire during 2013–2015), with the initial aim of achieving an independent Kurdish state, later changing it to a demand for equal rights and Kurdish autonomy in Turkey.
[16][17][18][19]
The PKK was founded in 1978 in the village of Fis (near
Lice) by a group of Kurdish students led by
Abdullah Öcalan[20] and 1979 it made its existence known to tthehe public.
[21]The PKK's ideology was originally a fusion of
revolutionary socialism and
Kurdish nationalism, seeking the foundation of an independent
Communist state in the region,....
Ideology Kurdish nationalism[1]
Communalism
Democratic confederalism[2]
Libertarian socialism[3]
Jineology
Anti-capitalism"
Kurdistan Workers' Party - Wikipedia
Just what the Democrat Party stands for, too.
4. "Christian Fighters Abandon Anti-ISIS Kurd Group Because It's Communist
... many of the most motivated Western fighters are Christian crusaders eager to defeat the armies of Muhammad, but they were shocked to learn they'd joined up with a bunch of Kurdish atheist commies to do it:
Christian Fighters Abandon Anti-ISIS Kurd Group Because It's Communist
QED....if you know nothing, you'll fall for anything.
Some posters may be able to recall then the Democrat Party demanded we leave our allies in South Vietnam to the tender mercy of the communist forces....
Leftist intellectuals such as Susan Sontag was one of a legion of what Paul Hollander identified as “political pilgrims” who journeyed to Communist countries in search of an earthly paradise, and nearly always persuaded themselves that they had found it. Sure enough, Sontag was “…struck by the grace, variety, and established identity of the Vietnamese…an effectively organized society…’ And she explained why she traveled to North Vietnam: “Vietnam offered the key to a systematic criticism of America.” Paul Hollander, “Political Pilgrims: Western Intellectuals in Search of the Good Society,” p. 198, 271.
a. Ramsey Clark, LBJ’s attorney general: “You can see no internal conflict in the country….a unity in spirit. I doubt seriously that I could walk in safety in Saigon or the cities and villages of South Vietnam, as I have here…” Ibid.
b. Novelist Mary McCarthy decided that North Vietnam is preferable to South Vietnam, as she never saw a child with a dirty face, nor beggars, nor prostitutes nor squalor. “Wherever you go, you are met with smiles, cheers, hand clapping.” Mary McCarthy, “The Seventeenth Degree,” p. 215,222. Confronted with the fact that the North has no free press, she opined that the right to criticize is just another “capitalist luxury.”
c. McCarthy went on to explain it was America’s fault…”Until the Americans go home, …the self-imposed rationing system in the realm of ideas that limited the [North Vietnamese] diet to what was strictly necessary to the national interest [must remain]…” Ibid. Of course, after the Americans left, totalitarians continued to be totalitarians.
In 1979, Humanitas, the organization of anti-war activist Joan Baez, purchased a newspaper ad that ran in five large circulation dailies, called “An Open Letter to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,” which ran in part: “Thousands of innocent Vietnamese, many of whose only “crimes” are those of conscience, are being arrested, detained and tortured in prison and re-education camps… The jails are overflowing with thousands upon thousands of “detainees”… People disappear and never return… People are used as human mine detectors, clearing live mine fields with their hands and feet. For many, life is hell and death is prayed for. With tragic irony, the cruelty, violence and oppression practiced by foreign powers in your country for more than a century continue today under the present regime.
It was an abiding commitment to fundamental principles of human dignity, freedom and self-determination that motivated so many Americans to oppose the government of South Vietnam and our country's participation in the war. It is that same commitment that compels us to speak out against your brutal disregard of human rights. As in the 60s, we raise our voices now so that your people may live.
http://www.american-buddha.com/lit.voicesingwith6.1.htm
Joan Baez mailed the letter to 350 anti-war activists. Among those who refused to sign was Jane Fonda. “Your name would mean much more than any other,” she told Fonda, in a long letter. Fonda wrote that the add would lend credence to those who believe “that Communism is worse than death…” Washington Post, Lynn Darling, “Joan Baez at 38,” June 29, 1979
But of course the Democrats/Liberal were justified because the South Vietnamese were known to be terrorists....
Oh....wait.....
That's the Kurds that the Democrats are now supporting!!!
"The
US State Department admitted on Friday that it had always viewed the Syrian Democratic Forces, a group that the US helped create, as including components of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which the US views as a terrorist organization."
State Department Distrust of Syrian Kurds Paved the Way for Betrayal