President Trump suggests that the Kurds may have released them in order to get us involved:
….Kurds may be releasing some to get us involved. Easily recaptured by Turkey or European Nations from where many came, but they should move quickly. Big sanctions on Turkey coming! Do people really think we should go to war with NATO Member Turkey? Never ending wars will end!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 14, 2019
The UK’s far-Left Independent calls that suggestion “insane.” But why is it insane? Is it really inconceivable that such a thing could occur?
One principal reason why I hesitate to join the chorus of condemnation of Trump over his refusal to go to war with Turkey right now, as despotic and aggressive as Recep Tayyip Erdogan is, is because of those leading that chorus. The hard-Left Independent has never had American interests at heart, and is part of the ongoing establishment media effort to discredit and destroy an elected President because they don’t like his policies. Their moral outrage on the part of the Kurds is illuminating of who and what is behind all this.
Meanwhile, it is terrible that the Islamic State prisoners have escaped, and not proven that they would not have been able to overpower their guards and escape if the U.S. had troops in the area. They need to be recaptured. If the Turks, and the Kurds, do not make efforts to do this, the onus is on them.
“US-backed Kurdish forces strike deal with Syria’s Assad,” by Helen Regan and Eliza Mackintosh, CNN, October 14, 2019:
…Kurdish authorities claim Turkey’s offensive has led to the escape of “785 people affiliated with foreign ISIS fighters” from the Ain Issa camp. The camp mainly houses internally displaced people and some ISIS family members.
According to a statement posted on the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria Facebook page, “ISIS elements attacked the camp guards, opened the gates and escaped.” CNN is unable to verify the claims.
Erdogan called the reports of an escape “disinformation” in order to “provoke the US and Europe,” Turkish news agency Anadolu reports.
Trump has railed against European countries for not taking back their nationals who left to join the extremist group. “The US has the worst of the ISIS prisoners. Turkey and the Kurds must not let them escape. Europe should have taken them back after numerous requests. They should do it now.” Trump tweeted Sunday.
Trump has also dismissed the overall threat of ISIS escapees, saying last week, “Well, they’re going to be escaping to Europe.”
A European intelligence official questioned the Syrian regime and Russia’s readiness and willingness to take foreign ISIS fighters into custody….