it is immoral, they are telling us, to look out for their own people, but it is virtuous to suffer for others, particular for those who hate us. hundreds of thousands of americans die from drugs, manufactured by our enemies abroad. mexico, and china, how do our leaders respond? they shrugged. he couldn t care less. they do nothing. turkey threatens to invade northern syria, a place not one in a thousand americans find on a map guess what that is excellent at the historic crisis and lindsey graham will stand for it! what you are looking at is a set of priorities so my lessons are distorted there is no in fact fixing them. in the end may be the obvious one, relocate the kurds to youngstown, ohio. only then will washington finally care. doug mcgregor is a retired u.s. army colonel arthur of the book margin of victory in the wises voice on foreign policy we know on nights like this. what do you make of the
went completely bonkers, wilder than they usually are. former bush speechwriter david frum suggested, president trump must be paying off turkey for covering up jamal khashoggi s murder in istanbul. provided no evidence this was true but no one in washington asked for any evidence. they were too busy nodding along in agreement. watch senator lindsey graham get so worked up by the idea of americans leaving a forward war zone, one thing that s never allowed, that he forgets to make any sense at all. if i didn t see donald trump s name on the tweet, i thought it would be obama s rationale for getting out of the rock the iraq. this is what s going to happen. it s going to lead to isis s reemergence. the kurds will now align with a side because have nobody to count on because we ve abandoned
what is the message to abandoning the syrian kurds who fought so valiantly for the u.s u.s.? it seems the u.s. is hanging them out to dry. yet again the kurds are being betrayed by those who help them. i just wonder where she was credibility in the region with both its friends and its adversaries after abandoning the kurds again? tucker: would love to tell you it s just the lefty hacks on the sea we not even close, a ton of republicans on capitol hill made exactly the same point. mitt romney did, ben sasse of nebraska, even mitch mcconnell the senate majority leader. all of them seem far anger of the prospect of leaving syria than they ever do about illegal immigration or americans dying of fentanyl o.d.es. some of them cited vladimir putin as if it were somehow the 1982 again and brush with the threat to russian
to be proud of in america but unfortunately a lot of folks don t think that this country is something to be proud of. when you re in a global geopolitical struggle where one nation is afraid of it s own shadow and the other nation is proud of itself, it s not too difficult to imagine which nation is going to win. i think because of this, tucker, when really important point in all of this, we have to be willing to push back against this stuff using political power. you know i m a republican, but one of the things i don t like about the republican party these days is that we are afraid of actually using political power. there are things we can do to push back against these companies that are taking the side of china over america. and with the nba, we can go after their stadium subsidies. what happened last time we had significant political power? the very same companies taking the side of china over americans and american consumers got a big tax break. we can t keep doing this. we can t
this, the obvious, and trying to fix it. for once, americans are coming home from a middle eastern tar pit rather than staying forever, and we ought to be celebrating that. across the country, people are, but in washington, people are apoplectic. they are telling us we are not allowed to leave syria, it s immoral, they say. it s a betrayal. not a betrayal of americans, that wouldn t be a problem here in washington. it happens here every day. it s much worse than that. it s a betrayal of an ethnic group in the mountainous parts of southwest asia called the kurds. what exactly do the people on tv know about kurds? nothing, really. it would be shocking if anyone at msnbc had ever met occurred, and yet suddenly today everyone washington seems thoroughly outraged on my behalf. it s psychotic, it makes no sense. you can go to the slaughter at the hands of turkey. i m washing my hands of. what is the message to