COMMON SENSE: As I have repeatedly explained, our foreign policy is based on our national interests and nothing else. This is the way it should be.
In Syria for example, our national interests would be to protect the oil fields, which are needed, maintain peace between our Turkish ally and Syria, and help the stateless Kurds survive.
For the past month, I have been consistently criticized for not calling for military intervention, or at least the threat of intervention, against our NATO ally Turkey. If we had done this, which nearly all of my friends thought was a good idea, we would have chosen a stateless people over our NATO ally. This would have undermined our primary alliance in the world, and it would have pleased Russia—no doubt about it.
So, by brokering a peace deal, while removing our troops from harm’s way, we have been able to restore peace, put a hedge of protection around the oil fields and secure a place for the Kurds. All of this is good, but we did one more thing as well. We kept American soldiers from dying.
President Trump will not need to go to Dover Air Force Base to receive the coffins of soldiers returning from the Middle East. If we had engaged militarily, we certainly would have sustained casualties, perhaps many. Our foreign policy succeeded without bloodshed. Thank you, Mr. President.
—Jack Watts
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