Merry Christmas from Uncle Pat

[All Along The Watchtower]

FB world: “Trump pulled out of Syria because he’s a man of the people fighting a great populist war against the evil establishment.”
The real world: Trump pulled out of Syria as a favor for Erdogan in exchange for them dropping the Khashoggi murder

I really don't care why.  I'm glad we're pulling out of Syria.  It's not our fight, and never was.

Leaving the Kurds to be wiped out in a genocide because “it’s not our fight” seems pretty diametrically opposed to the idea that we are all our brothers’ keeper (in addition to being terrible foreign policy).

As for the OP excerpt, as usual, Buchanan has no idea what he’s talking about; leaving Syria is a terrible idea even by Trump’s standards.  The likely genocides against both the Kurds and the members of Assad’s ethnic group (Alawites IIRC) if we leave now are reason enough to stay, plus ISIS could easily gain a strong foothold if we leave and that is definitely our fight by almost any objective measure.

The United Nations should attend to these matters, not the US.

The US is part of the United Nations you know...

[All Along The Watchtower]

Anyway, America's most respectable Hitler apologist doesn't seem to understand that the US cannot simply wash its hands of what it and other actors have wrought in the Middle East (and elsewhere) unless it wants to allow the consequences of those actions to follow us home (and they will). And the least we can do for people like the Kurds and others whom we've promised so much (and betrayed almost as often) is to actually support them, even if only diplomatically.