October 20, 2019: Trump Tries to Justify Screwing Our Kurdish Allies

 

Not once, in all his discussions, will Trump show any concern for our Kurdish allies.

10/20/19: Trump decides to take another day off, after a busy Saturday devoted to tweeting. He stays up late, tweets into the early hours of the Sabbath, hits the sack, rises early on Sunday, and starts hammering on his iPhone. Unfortunately, even tweeting proves more than he can master. 

Trump cares about the oil.

 

Slapping lipstick on a herd of pigs. 

At 8:15 a.m. he issues this gem in defense of his decision to pull U.S. troops out of Syria: 

Mark Esperanto, Secretary of Defense, “The ceasefire is holding up very nicely. There are some minor skirmishes that have ended quickly. New areas being resettled with the Kurds.” USA soldiers are not in combat or ceasefire zones. We have secured the Oil. Bringing soldiers home! 

 

It’s humorous to see that the President of the United States has failed to realize his iPhone has autocorrected. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper is not Mark “Esperanto.” But the crass, cluelessness of the tweet is what matters. To use an old cliché and give it a twist, Trump is reduced to slapping lipstick on a herd of pigs and trying to convince supporters that the pigs are a bevy of Miss Universe contestants. New areas aren’t being “resettled with the Kurds.” The Kurds are being driven from their ancestral homes. Most are going to end up stuck in refugee camps.

 

We also know the Trump administration doesn’t care for refugees, having cut the number that will be allowed to enter the U.S. next year to 18,000. That’s the lowest figure since the refugee program was established in 1980. 

So our loyal allies are screwed again.

Kurdish children "enjoy" the new refugee camps they have "resettled."