The international news is just appalling these days.
Besides Apple and the NBA caving to China (soon after it felt the need to stand up to North Carolina's medieval policy of having separate bathrooms for men and women), now our president withdraws troops from the Kurdish region of Syria. Immediately following, Turkey attacked the Kurds, feeling free to do so now that we had left.
Bringing our troops home, and not getting entangled in foreign conflicts, sounds great on paper, but this is an instance where we were actually preventing real harm. And we see the immediate effect when we leave: military assault across borders, loss of life, and disregard for human rights. The Kurds are a distinct people without a country of their own after the West drew national lines without regard to them. Religiously, they are a mix of Yazidi, Christian and Muslim - this classical Christian school there is worth supporting.
The real culprit in all this is Turkey's president Erdogan, but our own president deserves plenty of blame for this foolish and immoral move. When you see evil intent, know you can restrain that evil, and deliberately withdraw and let it happen, you've lost your moral compass. While Trump is admirable in his courageous stand against the liberal media and in other areas, we really need a better Republican candidate in 2020.
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