Rogue Valley:
NATO would not be allowed to send large ships through the straits if Turkey enforced the letter of the law regarding the Montreux Convention. Displacement limits would prevent US and NATO amphibious assault ships and aircraft carriers from moving through the Straits if Turkey applied the letter of the law. Futthermore NATO would have to give Turkey 8-15 days of notice before moving through the strait and would have to give the date of transit ahead of time. No ship borne aircraft could fly during the transit and the transit would have to be done during daylight hours. Finally Turkey might be able to declare NATO warships as hostile warships and block them entirely.
https://cil.nus.edu.sg/wp-content/u...ntion-Regarding-the-Regime-of-the-Straits.pdf
So my point still stands.
Cheers.
Evilroddy.
We will just let them all stay at your house since you are the one inviting them.
Trump's idea is that the Syrian Army will regain control of the North East Syria.....
Its MY country and I take a lot of pride in it. Living wherever the hell you are living, why do you care why I care?Living in Panama, why would you care?
Its MY country and I take a lot of pride in it. Living wherever the hell you are living, why do you care why I care?
Mind your own business as we Americans say. Yano?
12/30/18
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said on Sunday that withdrawing US troops from Syria could directly result in the deaths of Kurdish people there and that he plans to make a case to President Donald Trump today to reconsider his plans. "There are three things important for this country. Number one, make sure that ISIS never comes back in Syria," Graham said to CNN's Dana Bash on "State of the Union." "We need to keep our troops there. They're inside the ten-yard line in defeating ISIS, but we're not there yet. If we leave now, the Kurds are going to get slaughtered." "How are you going to convince President Trump to do that?" Bash asked. "I'm going to talk to him at lunch," Graham replied, referring to a lunch meeting he is set to have with Trump on Sunday. "The President is reconsidering how we do this, he's frustrated," he added. Trump's decision earlier this month to order his staff to execute the "full" and "rapid" withdrawal of US military from Syria was met with harsh criticism from both sides of the aisle. Hours after the announcement, Graham decried the move as a "disaster" and "a stain on the honor of the United States."
On Sunday, he warned against the transfer of security in Syria from the US to Russian and Turkish forces, a change that could leave the Syrian Kurds, whom the United States has assisted and armed, at risk from both ISIS and Turkey. "I'm asking the President to make sure that we have troops there to protect us. Don't outsource our national security to some foreign power," Graham said. "If we leave now the Kurds will get in a fight with Turkey, they could get slaughtered. Who would help you in the future?"
Not if you are too embarrassed to even declare, Clouseau.Being an American, it is my business Pablo.
Not if you are too embarrassed to even declare, Clouseau.
Follow nearly 23k empty posts, judging from the overabundance of such I have personally, involuntarily run across here... in the chance circumstance that you just might come out of the closet in one of those posts as being an actual American?Almost 23,000 posts. Not my fault you don't keep up, Sherlock.
Which is it, Clouseau...ashamed or...
12/31/18
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has ordered a slowdown to the withdrawal of U.S. forces in Syria, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said Sunday. "I think we're in a pause situation," the South Carolina Republican said outside the White House after lunch with the president. Trump announced earlier this month that he was ordering the withdrawal of all the roughly 2,000 troops from war-torn Syria, with aides expecting it to take place swiftly. The president had declared victory over the Islamic State group in Syria, though pockets of fighting remain. Graham had been an outspoken critic of Trump's decision, which had drawn bipartisan criticism. The announcement also had shocked lawmakers and American allies, including Kurds who have fought alongside the U.S. against the Islamic State group and face an expected assault by Turkey. "I think we're slowing things down in a smart way," Graham said, adding that Trump was very aware of the plight of the Kurds.
Yeah, it's shameful what America has done to the Kurds. Not the first time either.
I mean, we helped the south Vietnamese, who helped us. We helped the Hmong, who helped us.
Yet, we stick it to the Kurds, who helped us, everytime. Sucks that their choice of residency is in such a contentious region.
Maybe we should give them Montana.
Yup, let us not forget that the Kurds have also engaged in terrorism, so we shouldnt place those white hats on their heads just yet.
I'm actually quite warm to this idea. I would personally be quite happy to give Kurdish refugees from Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Iran first place in line to immigrate to the United States, along with religious minority refugees from the Middle East (Christians, Yazidis, Baha'is, etc.). So long as they are not sectarian fanatics and resonate to America's values of democracy, rule of law, freedom of religion and tolerance of religious and ideological minorities, I think we should open our doors to them.
Better that than keeping American troops in the region.
A growing number of Americans have lost the desire to try to maintain peace in the world by stationing troops in savage barbarian nations.
Thanks, I most certainly hope so.You have your DP rep. I'll leave it at that.
That is a thing upon which I think most people agree, certainly mirrors my sentiments on the topic.A growing number of Americans have lost the desire to try to maintain peace in the world by stationing troops in savage barbarian nations.
That is a thing upon which I think most people agree, certainly mirrors my sentiments on the topic.
The true fly in the ointment, it seems, is how we keep our thumbs properly on the pulse of those areas of the world that would, in the future, seek to do us harm. The AQ-Taliban style problem anew.
While that may be the exact truth, God gave us brains for a reason... one being to figure out those ways to best protect ours and ourselves.The truth is that there is no real peace and safety to be found anywhere except in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Since you did not immediately jump for the ladder up and out of the pit I just offered you... replaced it with an ad hom and thereby shunned the opportunity, you instead jumped feet first into the hole. You see, you avoid any hint that you might be a proud American... yet a citizen with all the rights so accorded, eh?.
I served my country in the classroom and in the private sector, working hard, paying my taxes, voting, studiously keeping up with events, both foreign and domestic, as well as being scrupulously honest in my dealings... a good upstanding citizen.I served my country in field. What were you, one of Noriega s thugs?
I served my country in the classroom and in the private sector, working hard, paying my taxes, voting, studiously keeping up with events, both foreign and domestic, as well as being scrupulously honest in my dealings... a good upstanding citizen.
Yet like Trump, you want to demean someone that actually saddled-up and served overseas. Figures.
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