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Bravo Donald! A War Washington Might Finally Leave

• https://original.antiwar.com, by David Stockman

We are referring, of course, to his sensible decision to decline the opportunity to put American soldiers in harms' way in an impending showdown between Turks and Kurds on the northern border of Syria. To our recollection, that particular tribal enmity has been going on for centuries and needs no help from Washington to fester on for years to come.

But already he is being monkey-hammered by the bipartisan War Party because by standing down and removing US forces from the contested towns along the border Trump is basically sounding the death knell for the neocons' failed, bloody, illegal and demented regime change project in Syria.

Now – and very soon – the Kurds will have to make a deal with Assad and his Russian and Iranian allies to counter Turkey's incursion, including the creation of a "safe zone" along the Turkish border that would be off-limits to armed Kurdish forces.


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