abandoning the syrian kurds who have fought so valiantly for the u.s.? now it seems if the u.s. is hanging them out to dry. being betrayed by those who help them. i just wonder where his u.s. credibility in the region, both its friends and his adversaries after abandoning the kurds again? tucker: would love to tell you it was just a lefty hacks on cnn demanding that we stay in syria forever, but unfortunately it was not, not even close. a ton of republicans on capitol hill made exactly the same point. mitt romney did, so did pat toomey of pennsylvania, ben sasse of nebraska. even mitch mcconnell, the senate majority leader. all of them seemed far and we are about the prospect of leaving syria than they ever do about illegal immigration or americans dying of sentinel ods. some of the angry senators cited vladimir putin as if it were somehow 1982 again and russia was the preeminent threat to american interests. the professional neocons, not
but unfortunately a lot of folks don t think that this country is something to be proud of, and when you are in a global geopolitical struggle or one nation is afraid of it s own shadow and the other nation is a proud of itself, it s not too difficult to imagine which nation is going to win and i think because of this, just one really important point in all of this is that 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 ton like about the republican party d the days is that we are afraid of actually using political power. there are things that we couldan do to push back against these companies that are taking the side of china over america. we could go after their stadium subsidies, but what happened last time we had significant political power? the very same companies that are taking the side of china over americans and american consumers got a big tax break. we can t keep doing this. we can keep shoot
us, to look out for our own people, but it is virtuous to suffer for others, particularly for those who hate us. hundreds of thousands of americans died from drugs manufactured by our enemies abroad. mexico and china. how do our leaders respond? they shrugged. they couldn t care less. if they do nothing. and then turkey threatens to invade northern syria, a place not one in a thousand americans could find on a map, and guess what that is? at the historic crisis and lindsey graham won t stand for it. what you re looking at is a set of priorities so mindless, so perverse and distorted there is in fact no fixing them. in the end, the only solution may be the obvious one, recoat dominic relocate the kurds to youngstown, ohio. only then will washington finally care. doug mcgregor is a retired u.s. army colonel, author of the book margin of victory and maybe the wisest voice on foreign policy that we know and on nights like this we are always great fun. what do you make of the response
surprisingly, there are a lot of them here, when completely bonkers, wilder even than they usually are. former speechwriter for bush suggested that president trump must be paying off turkey for covering up jamal khashoggi s murder in the saudi consulate in istanbul. wow. provided no evidence that this was true, but no one in washington asked for any evidence. they were too busy nodding along an agreement, yes, watch senator lindsey graham of south carolina for example get so worked up by the idea of americans leaving a foreign war zone, one thing that s never allowed, but he forgets to make any sense at all. if i didn t see donald trump s name on the tweet, i thought it was with the obama s rationale for getting out of iraq. so here s what s going to happe happen. this is going to lead to isis reemergence. nothing better for isis than to create a conflict between the kurds and turkey. the kurds will now align with assad because they have nobody to count on because we abandoned them,
she s a u.s. senator, but rather than say i ve been successful, she has climbed repeatedly to be the victim of discrimination. she clearly has a need to see herself as a victim and to lie about it. absolutely this comes at a time where she is clearly surging, where she has emerged as the front runner in the iowa caucus and new hampshireas primary. what s interesting is 5:30 eight s nate silver was saying today that the story is not being picked up by the p mainstream media, which is actually to the detriment of democratic voters, because she s going to head and potentially to a general election where she s not really been impressed by the media, where she s not going to have to answer these tough questions and at times where she has she released a video after being called pocahontas telling americans that she s actually less native american than the average l white person, or in interviews where she s been even remotely oppressed, she s completely foundered and being able to answer w