TheFrontPageCover
~ Featuring ~
A US-Turkish Clash in Syria?
by Pat Buchanan
.
Tuesday Top Headlines
.
IMF: Tax reform projected to push GDP growth higher, now expected to rise to 2.7% in 2018 (The Washington Free Beacon)
.
Claim: Page and Strzok referenced FBI “secret society” that met the day after the election (PJ Media)
.
.
.
.
Early 2018 Democrat win: Pennsylvania court orders new congressional map due to gerrymandering (Reuters)
.
NFL rejects Super Bowl ad from veterans group that asks players to stand during anthem (Stars and Stripes)
.
Hawaii governor slow to correct missile alert because he forgot Twitter username, password (Fox News)
.
.
.
Vermont becomes first state to legalize marijuana through state legislature (The Washington Free Beacon)
.
liar-nObamaCare is fueling the nation’s opioid epidemic? Sure looks like it (Investor’s Business Daily)
.
.
.
scum-Durbin Cornered By 2013 Immigration
clown-Schumer Rant, Dem Hypocrisy
by rickwells.us
{rickwells.us} ~ Once again, scum-Dick Durbin is presented with evidence that he and his partner in crime, Chuck clown-Schumer... are liars solely intent on political gain at any cost, who couldn’t care less about the future of this nation other than facilitating its rapid destruction from within. scum-Durbin chooses, in typical Democrat fashion, to ignore a difficult question nailing them and their duplicity and to simply talk around the unpleasant truth. liar-Clinton supporter and host George Stephanopoulos asks scum-Durbin, “But is it right to hold the government hostage? You heard Marc Short cite Senator clown-Schumer, here’s what Senator clown-Schumer said back in 2013 during the last government shutdown.” Stephanopoulos then plays a clip of clown-Schumer who made an inane comparison between a shutdown and a home invasion in which someone wants to negotiate the purchase price of the home. clown-Schumer said, “We could do the same thing on immigration. We believe strongly in immigration reform. We could say ‘we’re shutting down the government, we’re not going to raise the debt ceiling until you pass immigration reform,’ it would be governmental chaos.” It also would be pretty much exactly what they are now doing... https://rickwells.us/durbin-schumer-rant-hypocrisy/.
dinky-Pocahontas’ Refusal To Admit
Cherokee Lie May Be Hurting Her Dem Support
by Jeff Dunetz
{lidblog.com} ~ Democrats are beginning to feel uncomfortable about the future of Elizabeth dinky-Warren... as both a senatorial and a possible 2020 presidential candidate because of her continued insistence that she has Native American ancestry. During her first run for the Senate Elizabeth dinky-Warren was exposed for lying about her background. According to The Boston Globe, back in 1984, dinky-Warren and members her family contributed recipes to a Native American cookbook, where she signed her name Elizabeth dinky-Warren, Cherokee. Then in 1986, dinky-Warren listed herself as a “minority” in the American Association of Law Schools’ directory of faculty, which is commonly used by recruiters. In the early 1990s, she was hired by Harvard as a law professor, and the university actually touted dinky-Warren’s phony ancestry. By 1995, once she had achieved tenure, dinky-Warren stopped listing herself as a minority... https://lidblog.com/dems-worried-elizabeth-warren-refusal-admit-lie-background/.
Senate leaders agree on plan to reopen gov't
.
Trump Just Gave The Democrats A
Big Ultimatum On Any New Budget Deal…
by Jonathan Pincus
{westernjournalism.com} ~ Congressional Democrats need to go back to the drawing board if they want to the Trump administration to budge... on the Deferred Actions for Childhood Arrivals program, according to recently surfaced information regarding the recent government shutdown provided by the White House Sunday. A White House aide told Breitbart News that Democrats proposed a federal budget measure, however, attached was a clause regarding DACA. The move didn’t impress the Trump administration, as it doesn’t want the DACA budget attached to government funding... https://www.westernjournalism.com/trump-wh-just-told-the-democrats-any-budget-deal-with-daca-attached-is-dead-on-arrival/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=western-journal.
NSA Destroys Evidence
in Lawsuit Against Surveillance
by Michael Tennant
{thenewamerican.com} ~ The National Security Agency (NSA), whose warrantless surveillance program was just reauthorized by Congress and President Donald Trump... recently confessed to having destroyed data it had been ordered to retain — and said it was retaining — in connection with lawsuits against the program, reported Politico. On Thursday, the NSA filed a request with U.S. District Court Judge Jeffrey White for an extension of its deadline to comply with discovery requests in the longstanding lawsuits. Its reason: Despite the fact that the agency has been under court order to preserve records related to the program since 2007, much of the requested data can no longer be located. The agency first admitted deleting the data in October, when its deputy director of capabilities, “Elizabeth B.,” filed a declaration with White, whose court is in Oakland, California. “The NSA sincerely regrets its failure to prevent the deletion of this data,” she wrote. “NSA senior management is fully aware of this failure, and the Agency is committed to taking swift action to respond to the loss of this data.”... https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/item/28087-nsa-destroys-evidence-in-lawsuit-against-surveillance.
.
A US-Turkish Clash in Syria?
{townhall.com} ~ The war for dominance in the Middle East, following the crushing of ISIS, appears about to commence in Syria -- with NATO allies America and Turkey on opposing sides.
Turkey is moving armor and troops south to Syria's border enclave of Afrin, occupied by Kurds, to drive them out, and then drive the Syrian Kurds out of Manbij further south as well.
Says President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, "We will destroy all terror nests, one by one, in Syria, starting from Afrin and Manbij."
For Erdogan, the Kurdish YPG, the major U.S. ally in Syria, is an arm of the Kurdish PKK in Turkey, which we and the Turks have designated as a terrorist organization.
While the Kurds were our most effective allies against ISIS in Syria, Turkey views them as a mortal peril and intends to deal with that threat.
If Erdogan is serious, a clash with the U.S. is coming, as our Kurdish allies occupy most of Syria's border with Turkey.
Moreover, the U.S. has announced plans to create a 30,000-man Border Security Force of Kurds and Arabs to keep ISIS out of Syria.
Erdogan has branded this BSF a "terror army," and President Bashar Assad of Syria has called BSF members "traitors."
This U.S. plan to create a BSF inside Syria, Damascus declared, "represents a blatant attack on the sovereignty and territorial integrity and unity of Syria, and a flagrant violation of international law."
Does not the Syrian government have a point?
Now that ISIS has been driven out of Raqqa and Syria, by what authority do U.S. forces remain to arm troops to keep the Damascus government from reimposing its authority on its own territory?
Secretary of State Tillerson gave Syria the news Wednesday.
The U.S. troop commitment to Syria, he said, is now open-ended.
Our goals: Guarantee al-Qaida and ISIS do not return and set up sanctuary; cope with rising Iranian influence in Damascus; and pursue the removal of Bashar Assad's ruthless regime.
But who authorized this strategic commitment, of indefinite duration, in Syria, when near two decades in Afghanistan have failed to secure that nation against the return of al-Qaida and ISIS?
Again and again, the American people have said they do not want to be dragged into Syria's civil war. Donald Trump won the presidency on a promise of no more unnecessary wars.
Have the American people been had again?
Will they support a clash with NATO ally Turkey, to keep armed Kurds on Turkey's border, when the Turks regard them as terrorists?
Are we prepared for a shooting war with a Syrian army, backed by Russia, Iran, Hezbollah and Shiite militias from Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, to hold onto a fourth of Syria's territory in alliance with Kurds?
The U.S. coalition in Syria said this week the BSF will be built up "over the next several years" and "be stationed along the borders ... to include portions of the Euphrates river valley and international borders to the east and north."
Remarkable: A U.S.-created border army is going to occupy and control long stretches of Syria's borders with Turkey and Iraq, over Syria's objections. And the U.S. military will stand behind the BSF.
Are the 2,000 U.S. troops in Syria really up to that task, should the Turks decide to cleanse the Syrian border of Kurds, or should the Syrian regime decide to take back territory occupied by the Kurds?
Who sanctioned this commitment to a new army, which, if Syria and its Russian and Iranian allies, and the Turks, do not all back down, risks a major U.S. war with no allies but the Kurds?
As for Syria's Kurds casting their lot with the Americans, one wonders: Did they not observe what happened when their Iraqi cousins, after helping us drive ISIS out of Mosul, were themselves driven out of Kirkuk by the Iraqi army, as their U.S. allies watched?
In the six-year Syrian civil war, which may be about to enter a new phase, America faces a familiar situation.
While our "allies" and adversaries have vital interests there, we do not. The Assads have been in power for the lifetime of most Americans. And we Americans have never shown a desire to fight there.
Assad has a vital interest: preservation of his family regime and the reunification of his country. The Turks have a vital interest in keeping armed Kurds out of their border regions adjacent to their own Kurdish minority, which seeks greater independence.
The Israelis and Saudi royals want the U.S. to keep Iran from securing a land bridge from Tehran to Damascus to Lebanon.
The U.S. War Party wants us to smash Iran and remain in the Middle East forever to assure the hegemony of its favorites.
Have the generals taking us into Syria told the president how and when, if ever, they plan to get us out?
Comments