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Horse with no Name

(33,956 posts) Wed Oct 9, 2019, 12:05 PM Oct 2019

If I were any of our Allies, I would order all of our bases closed

Send the Americans home before Putin orders trump to attack them.

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If I were any of our Allies, I would order all of our bases closed (Original Post) Horse with no Name Oct 2019 OP

Yikes.. dewsgirl Oct 2019 #1

Sounds more like something Trump would order Runningdawg Oct 2019 #2

Those bases are big money makers for the communities that they are in... PoiBoy Oct 2019 #3

dewsgirl

(14,961 posts)

1. Yikes..

Reply to Horse with no Name (Original post)

Wed Oct 9, 2019, 12:24 PM

Oct 2019

Runningdawg

(4,522 posts)

2. Sounds more like something Trump would order

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Wed Oct 9, 2019, 01:41 PM

Oct 2019

PoiBoy

(1,542 posts)

3. Those bases are big money makers for the communities that they are in...

Reply to Horse with no Name (Original post)

Wed Oct 9, 2019, 08:43 PM

Oct 2019

...so I don't think our Allies would order the bases closed...

However, being our Allies in the war against ISIS, I would like to see the Allies establish a "wall of separation" between the Turks and the Kurds, effectively stopping the Turkish invasion, and take over the functions that the U.S. Special Forces were doing for the Kurds in their engagement of ISIS...

I would also like to see Allied troops take possession of the ISIS prisoners in Kurdish custody and make arrangements to transport them into U.S. custody on a U.S. base somewhere...

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