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Oct. 15, 2019 - Ron Paul Liberty Report
04:19
Weekly Update --- Washington is Wrong Once Again – Kurds Join Assad to Defend Syria

The best way to help the Kurds and everyone else in the region is to just come home.

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Kurds Join Assad: The Panic Withdrawal 00:03:33
Hello everybody and thank you for tuning in to the weekly report.
Washington is wrong once again.
Kurds join Assad to defend Syria.
When President Trump tweeted last week that it is time for us to get out of these ridiculous endless wars, adding that the U.S. would be withdrawing from Syria, Washington went into a panic.
Suddenly, Republicans, Democrats, the media, the think tanks, and the war industry all discovered and quickly became experts on the Kurds, who we were told were an ally being sent to their slaughter by an ignorant President Trump.
But it was all just another bipartisan ploy to keep the forever war gravy train rolling through the Beltway.
Interventionists will do anything to prevent U.S. troops from ever coming home, and their favorite tactic is promoting mission creep.
As President Trump tweeted, we were told in 2014 by President Obama that the U.S. military would go into Syria for just 30 days to save the Yazidi minority that they claim were threatened.
Then that mission crept into, we must fight ISIS, and so the U.S. military continued to illegally occupy and bomb Syria for five more years.
Even though it was the Syrian army with its Russian and Iranian allies that did the bulk of the fighting against al-Qaeda and ISIS in Syria, President Trump took credit and called for the troops to come home.
But when the military comes home, the military-industrial congressional media complex loses its cash cow.
So a new rationale had to be invented.
The latest mission creep was that we had to stay in Syria to save our allies, the Kurds.
All of a sudden, our military presence in Syria was not about fighting terrorism, but rather about putting U.S. troops between our NATO ally Turkey and our proxy fighting force, the Kurds.
Do they really want us to believe that it is pro-American for our troops to fight and die, refereeing a long-standing dispute between the Turks and Kurds?
It was a colossally dumb idea to train and arm the Kurds in Syria in the first place.
But after spending billions backing what turned out to be an al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria to overthrow the Assad government, Washington found that the Kurds were the only willing boots remaining on the ground.
While their interest in fighting ISIS was limited, they were happy to use Washington's muscle in pursuit of their long-term goal of carving out a part of Syria and eventually Turkey for themselves.
We can never leave because there will be a slaughter, Washington claimed.
And the media faithfully repeated.
But once again, the politicians, the mainstreet media, and the Beltway experts have been proven wrong.
They never understand that sending U.S. troops into another country without the proper authority is not a stabilizing factor, but a destabilizing factor.
I have argued that were the United States to leave Syria and the rest of the Middle East, the countries of the region would find a way to solve their own problems.
U.S. Pulling Back? 00:00:43
Now that the U.S. is pulling back from northern Syria, that is just what is happening.
On Sunday, the Kurds and the Syrian government signed an agreement brokered by the Russians to put aside their differences and join together to defend against Turkey's incursion into Syrian territory.
Now our Kurdish allies are fighting alongside the army of Syrian President Assad, who we still are told by the U.S. officials must go.
Washington doesn't understand that our intervention only makes matters worse.
The best way to help the Kurds and everyone else in the region is to just come home.
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