When Messes Are Not Cleaned Up

All the way from the First World War ...




Now the US will have to get back in the game:

On Friday afternoon, the outlet reported that as Turkey attacked positions held by Kurdish militias, American troops were inadvertently caught in the crossfire. The shelling is reported to have been so heavy, Newsweek reports, that the Americans were on the verge of firing back before eventually deciding to retreat.

Newsweek reported a senior Pentagon official as saying that Turkey should know where all U.S. troops are “down to the grid.” The source would not say how many Americans were at the bombed location, beyond that they were small in number — somewhere between 15 and 100.

A word on Syria from PM Blackface:

Reporter asked Trudeau about the situation in Syria, Trudeau gives incoherent response about Iraq. 😂

This is why Trudeau skipped the foreign-policy debate. pic.twitter.com/Zh1ncLXkYI

— Canadabuster (@Canadabuster) October 9, 2019

If Trump's mismanagement on the Kurds, Syria and Turkey is bad, could one imagine Canada's military and moral bungling?:

The unrest began when hardliners at Syria’s biggest camp for female ISIS detainees gathered in a tent, allegedly to whip a woman as punishment for defying their puritanical code.

Kurdish soldiers arrested those responsible, but as they led the prisoners away, more black-clad women congregated, chanting “God is great,” index fingers jabbing at the hot morning sky.

“Jihad,” one shouted.

“Oppressors,” another said in English.

Why would we let anyone like that return to Canada? What purpose could it possibly serve?


Also:

Lafleur was unjustly stripped of his duties and placed on administrative leave after returning from Syria, the petition asserts, and Lafleur has also been subjected to “neo-McCarthyist attacks in various media,” and a “media witch-hunt,” and it’s scandalous. Lafleur travelled on his own time and his own money to learn more about the Syrian conflict, and to express solidarity with Syrian workers, and he should be praised, not reprimanded: “We call for the immediate restoration of Brother Lafleur to his full roster of duties as Executive Vice-President of the CLC.”

So far, the petition has gathered more than 800 signatures. Among the petition’s backers are Sid Ryan, former president of the Ontario Federation of Labour and five-times-failed New Democratic Party candidate. Ryan was hoping to be an NDP candidate again in the current federal election campaign, but there was some trouble about the NDP’s delay in “vetting” him, so he pulled his candidacy bid last month. Lafleur should be praised, not condemned, for “standing in solidarity with fellow Syrian trade unionists and calling for an end to the inhumane U.S. economic sanctions,” Ryan said.

Also backing Lafleur against Yussuff is Ali Mallah, former CLC executive committee member, Canadian Union of Public Employees officer and prominent “anti-war” activist — which is to say a frequent denouncer of Israel at Toronto “Al Quds Day” events. Mallah was particularly harsh with the New Democratic Party’s foreign-affairs critic Guy Caron, who had expressed shock at Lafleur’s presence in Damascus: “It is an indication of the slippery slope taken by the NDP by siding with Western interventionists and their murderous thugs in the Middle East.”

If that doesn’t strike you as an utterly unhinged criticism of the NDP’s approach to foreign policy, then I can’t help you.