🔥 🔥 🔥 from Ben Sasse (about retreat):

[MelissaB]

Link to tweet

“If the President sticks with this retreat, he needs to know that this bad decision will likely result in the slaughter of allies who fought with us, including women and children. I hope the President will listen to his generals and reconsider.

Sasse cont'd: "And before Turkey butchers innocent Kurds, Erdogan should carefully consider his privileged status as a NATO member. The American people don’t partner with genocidal regimes.”

[Whiskeytide]

1. Has Sasse even been paying attention? Apparently the trump ...

... administration ONLY partners with genocidal regimes.

[Backseat Driver]

2. Seems Turks were fine with butchering of

WaPo journalist murder - chop, chop - notwithstanding fake investigation cooperation???

[maxsolomon]

7. they were? I thought they were pissed off.

they released an audiotape from their bugging devices.

Did I miss something? Was that just a performance?

[tblue37]

17. They were strategically "pissed off." IOW, their leaked evidence was both a warning

(We have the receipts, so cooperate with us!) and leverage to ensure future cooperation.

[Silver Gaia]

21. Oh. That makes sense.

Explains why Trump was so eager to give Syria to Turkey. I hate him so much.

[spanone]

13. Do you have a link to your assertion?

[nykym]

3. Trump has no use for the

Kurds. They don't stay at any of his hotels or golf courses.

Worthless people from a shithole country

[LeftInTX]

22. They don't even have a country

[superpatriotman]

4. "...The American people don't partner with genocidal regimes."

Little Ben hasn't been paying attention to dear leader

[tblue37]

19. Like, for example, Saudi Arabia? nt

[jayschool2013]

5. Sasse blaming Dems, too, in 3 ... 2 ...

I'll wait for it, because it's likely coming.

[Garrett78]

6. No, but the US government does partner with brutal regimes. It always has, sadly.

[hatrack]

20. See also: Chile under Pinochet, Democratic Kampuchea under Pol Pot, Dominican Rep. under Trujillo

And so on.

[bucolic_frolic]

8. "President ... know...."

Sasse is deluded right there. Trump is doing what he wants, and Ben is reverting to logic and geopolitics. Big disconnect.

[hibbing]

9. Ahhh, my great senator

The beltway press adores him, thinks he is some kind of maverick. Far from it, he's pathetic.


Peace

[democrank]

10. Trump is sickening

[Hulk]

11. Maybe "the American people don't partner with genocidal regimes"....

...but our government and military forces have no second thoughts of doing so. History demonstrates that rather clearly.

[slumcamper]

12. End game?

Embolden Turks, then lead an adverse response from NATO (expel?); create a diplomatic and strategic vacuum in Turkey; Russia fills the vacuum...

Trumplethinskin is beholden and serving Putin, is he not?

[Happy Hoosier]

14. Trump don't care....

The GOP has cashed in what integrity it had in the name of defending Trump. He knows he can do whatever the fuck he wants. A couple folks will bleat, but they will NEVER hold him accountable.

[Capperdan]

15. "His" Generals? Really?

I'll bet there are quite a few Generals who would squirm at that designation.

[Mad Lib]

16. If only it were true

"The American people don’t partner with genocidal regimes.” Maybe before or president was a patsy to the world's despots.

[Happy Hoosier]

18. I mean that's great and all....

... but what are you going to DO about it?