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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsUS SpecOps forces jeered in Syria: "America liar! Fuck Turkish! Fuck America!"
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Julian Röpcke ✔ @JulianRoepcke
America liar! Fuck Turkish! Fuck America!
Great job, @realDonaldTrump.
Rudaw English ✔ @RudawEnglish
#Kurdish residents in the city of Qamishli block the path of the American forces withdrawing from northern #Syria and throw tomatoes at them following President Trump's order for the #US soldiers to retreat from the region - ANHA
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5:56 AM - Oct 21, 2019
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Malcolm Nance ✔ @MalcolmNance
Here is the video you feared would come. US SOF treated like traitors. #TrumpBetrayedOurAllies
Julian Röpcke ✔ @JulianRoepcke
America liar! Fuck Turkish! Fuck America!
Great job, @realDonaldTrump.
6:25 AM - Oct 21, 2019
MFM008
(19,805 posts)Brings everything down to his level.
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,183 posts).
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dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)paleotn
(17,911 posts)Sure sign one isn't much of student of history. Yes, we do run. Sometimes out of cowardice. Sometimes because it's the only sensible option. The whole idea smacks of Hitler's "not one step back" which ended up with Germans unnecessarily dead.
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)Russians jumping in to say, the US are cowards.
paleotn
(17,911 posts)Seems in actual combat, Russians and their Syrian allies stuck it out there and drew back a nub.
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)paleotn
(17,911 posts)Here's the gist of the article....
By Thomas Gibbons-Neff
May 24, 2018
WASHINGTON The artillery barrage was so intense that the American commandos dived into foxholes for protection, emerging covered in flying dirt and debris to fire back at a column of tanks advancing under the heavy shelling. It was the opening salvo in a nearly four-hour assault in February by around 500 pro-Syrian government forces including Russian mercenaries that threatened to inflame already-simmering tensions between Washington and Moscow.
In the end, 200 to 300 of the attacking fighters were killed. The others retreated under merciless airstrikes from the United States, returning later to retrieve their battlefield dead. None of the Americans at the small outpost in eastern Syria about 40 by the end of the firefight were harmed.
Case of mistaken identity....we think.
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)Idea it was that bad. Thank you.
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Pachamama
(16,887 posts)Thank you President Pussy Ass Bitch
gademocrat7
(10,654 posts)He has caused so much suffering.
democrank
(11,093 posts)before theres nothing left....of anything.
2naSalit
(86,536 posts)gab13by13
(21,304 posts)cable news would be showing this video 24/7. Let's see how much coverage this gets.
TheFarseer
(9,322 posts)So they don't know what to do. I mean, Trump is obviously strong on defense because he increased the budget so much, right? Right?
calimary
(81,220 posts)Yet another in a continuing series of utterly monstrous blunders, insults, crimes, and sins that will take years from which to recover. Decades is probably more like it.
pazzyanne
(6,547 posts)and then funnels designated funds toward building that wall, and his personal checking account.
2naSalit
(86,536 posts)taken on AF1 by the kids and the sometimes wife.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)And the media still daren't utter a peep in opposition to a Trump proclamation. "These colors don't run." Checked with our allies lately?
Kaiserguy
(740 posts)given how one sided the MSM has become under Trump. Hell they won't even call him out when he tell lies that are a cake walk to fact check.
RainCaster
(10,866 posts)pResident Rusty Trombone has been such a great asset for Russia.
Danascot
(4,690 posts)nt
calimary
(81,220 posts)Yoiks!
RainCaster
(10,866 posts)And it fits with his skin tone
keithbvadu2
(36,775 posts)Syria mission accomplished - Putin
sinkingfeeling
(51,445 posts)to get on helicopters in Saigon.
Farmer-Rick
(10,154 posts)ramen
(789 posts)and the worst is yet to come. I think it's going to be a long way down.
rpannier
(24,329 posts)usaf-vet
(6,181 posts)This stupid decision will destroy our relationship with many of our allies for decades to come.
Our word use to be our bond. Now it won't be considered to be worth the paper it is written on.
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Think-b4-U-act
(52 posts)gibraltar72
(7,503 posts)Who can blame them??
lunasun
(21,646 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Kaiserguy
(740 posts)we should call it. Pulling a Trump
Farmer-Rick
(10,154 posts)When a coward is made US president by a tiny little murdering dick tater in Russia. Supported and enabled by the filthy rich in the US.
Traitor Trump leading the US into surrender.
Let's see where else surrender is required by Putin and our US filthy rich. I'm sure surrendering is very profitable for someone. Thanks bone spur coward.
paleotn
(17,911 posts)As powerful as LBJ's daisy ad or Reagan's morning in America. And I see it run against every single solitary Rethuglican. Just change the name of the Dem candidate and the Rethug opponent. Juxtapose that footage with the raid on Osama Bin Laden. This is Rethuglican America and this is Democratic America. Which would you choose?
keithbvadu2
(36,775 posts)A letter to Kurdish soldiers from a US military wife
"Months later, he returned and recounted to me what he could about his experience. I asked how he had made it through. He replied, "We had help. We had the Kurds."
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/10/17/opinions/letter-to-kurdish-soldiers-from-military-wife-opinion/index.html?__twitter_impression=true
dalton99a
(81,454 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,647 posts)sold out our troops for a hotel in Istanbul.