Senator Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) spoke in August with a Russian prank caller who identified himself as the Turkish defense minister in order to fool Graham’s office into patching him through to the senator, according to Politico.
While speaking with who he thought was Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar, Graham acknowledged that the Kurdish YPG forces pose a security threat to Turkey. That acknowledgement stands in sharp contrast to the praise that Graham has heaped on the Kurds in recent days for helping defeat the Islamic State, and the criticism that he has directed at President Trump for withdrawing U.S. troops from northern Syria ahead of the Turkish incursion into Kurdish territory.
“Your YPG Kurdish problem is a big problem,” Graham told the Russian prankster. “I told President Trump that Obama made a huge mistake in relying on the YPG Kurds” in the fight against ISIS.
“Everything I worried about has come true, and now we have to make sure Turkey is protected from this threat in Syria. I’m sympathetic to the YPG problem, and so is the president, quite frankly,” he continued.
This call took place in August. So in fairness, maybe Graham changed his opinion the past 2 months.
"We have taken up arms in defense of our liberty, our property, our wives, and our children; we are determined to preserve them, or die." - Captain Moroni - 'Address to the Inhabitants of Canada' 1775
DarkHelmet wrote:Looks like Lindsey Graham was crying crocodile tears for the Kurds.
Graham is a damned sellout (I wrote him and told him so - his office wrote back saying they only respond to residents of SC). I don't trust a single word that comes out of his mouth. He's just another piece of crap making this country worse.
I hope he lives to see the historical shame he's brought on himself.
God belief is for people who don't want to live life on the universe's terms.
Meanwhile, from the “Trump is just keeping us out of foreign entanglements” and “Middle-Eastern nations just want to fight; let ’em do it alone” world :
The Pentagon will deploy an additional 1,800 U.S. troops to Saudi Arabia, senior defense officials announced Friday, a modest increase in the U.S. military’s presence in the Middle East meant to deter aggressive Iranian actions.
The deployments include two fighter squadrons, an air expeditionary wing headquarters unit, two Patriot missile batteries and one air-defense unit operating a system known as the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD. The Pentagon said last month that some of those units were preparing to deploy.
The deployments come as the Pentagon wrestles with how to deter Iran while simultaneously pivoting itself for greater competition with China across the globe. A strike group led by aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln has been in the Middle East for months, and Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper declined to say Friday whether its deployment would be extended
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951
What's the plan? Or do you mean "there is no plan?"
"Finally, for your rather strange idea that miracles are somehow linked to the amount of gay sexual gratification that is taking place would require that primitive Christianity was launched by gay sex, would it not?"
What's the plan? Or do you mean "there is no plan?"
Yes. I was so frightened of Zool that I forgot the no.
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951
After we gave them the precise coordinates of where they were located. Winning!!!
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951
subgenius wrote:Speaking of distraction...how are things going with the whole Epstein situation...seems like the press lost interest when the trail of names started going more down the Blue path...