Don’t Watch Fake News about the Kurdish Plight Warns Pentagon Security Expert

American broadcast media has all but shut down the business of democracy by keeping public understanding locked into political soap opera.  Anything to destroy the presidency is fair game in this ongoing theater of the absurd.  

       The goal of the media and Democratic Party is to portray the Executive Office as hopelessly mired in chaos and malfeasance. Anything is okay, they think, to sway a gullible and shallow public. It’s the latest embodiment of political anarchism. Tear down what now exists even though there is nothing to replace it with.  Tabula rasa at its worst.  Tabloid journalism rules.

     Even if the Media and Democrats are successful in 2020, it’s certain that the GOP will keep the anarchy going in an endless cycle. The same thing is happening in Britain. Political stagnation and stalemate is guaranteed for decades to come. Woe to the West.

     Weaponized impeachment is meaningless and futile when used as a political tool. Sex scandals have been fair game for a long time.  On and on and on.  The latest news charade is showing up in the one-sided, sob story about the Syrian Kurds. Let the camera linger infinitely on crying babies and women.  Before the next teardrop falls.

       Meanwhile, President Trump is committed to Big Picture goals to Make America Great Again. Being embroiled in war-after-war-after-war in the Middle East and elsewhere is always fruitless. So argues retired US Army LTC Robert L. Maginnis in “Missing the Bigger Picture in Kurdish Syria”:

       Yes, the Kurds have been allies against ISIS, says Maginnis, but in pursuit of their own interests, not ours directly: “The Kurds were engaged in a contractual relationship fighting the Islamic State (ISIS).  They were well paid and equipped for their fighting, much like any mercenary group.  Further, they were given three years to consolidate eastern Syria to feed their long-held desire to form an independent Kurdistan with other Kurds in Turkey, Iraq, and Iran.  They failed.”   FoxNews has also interviewed Maginnis online (banner above).  

      The Kurds didn’t follow through with what was expected of them. Instead, they selfishly moved into the border buffer zone that America’s other ally, Turkey, needed: “Basically, the Kurds hijacked our fight with ISIS to feed their regional civil war to earn independence.”

     Trump is sympathetic with much of what Maginnis has written in his just-released book Progressive Evil: How Radicals Are Redefining America’s Rights, Institutions, and Ideals, Making Her Globally Irrelevant for the End Times. The US will spiral downward into oblivion if it attempts to be the Policeman and Sugar Daddy for the whole world:

     Both men seek “to constrain American hawks who want to use our military willy-nilly across the world.  Remember that Trump frequently said during his 2016 campaign that he wants to escape from endless wars and bring our fighters home.”   Neocons share common ground on the left side of the political spectrum with Democrats, RINOs, and Establishment GOP.

     Trump’s greatest asset as a president is his historically unique ability to slug it out in the political arena. He’s the street fighter who stepped to the stage just when we needed him.

     America must pick its fights. Only the big ones count, else we’ll fritter away our blood and treasure, says Maginnis: “Why must America get involved in every conflict around the world that is, unless you believe as some of the Trump critics do, that we are indeed the world’s policeman and like former American leaders, believe in promoting democracy at the pointy end of the bayonet?”

     Europe now owns the problems in the Middle East.   They invited millions of Muslim Third World illegal immigrants into Western Europe. The EU and UN made sure that member countries were ideologically prepped to encourage ISIS radicalism and outrage.

       President Trump has correctly argued that the US, being many thousands of miles away, will never win in the Middle East. He agrees with Maginnis that “much of the region is locked in tribal wars and they don’t want democracy.  Further, and in part because of those tribal wars, we do not need to stay there another day, much less a century.  Rather, let the regional players handle these problems and leave the larger security challenges like China and Russia to the United States.”  

     It’s commonsensical. Europe abuts the Middle East—and has a long history of defensively fighting off the Muslim hordes threatening to storm over its borders. The battles defined European identity and character. Interesting that there isn’t a single word today about retaking Constantinople and pushing the Muslims back across the Bosporus. We’ve come a long way.