MGB:_Samantha Power is part of the problem of Syria. In 2008, I gave Joe Biden a set of proposals to regionalize and essential partition Iraq which she opposed and which led to the birth of Daesh and its power base in Iraq, which a stroger Sunni republican would have crushed (as it eventually did with our help, but at great cost).
Whatever answer Trump proposes, it will be the worst possible idea, probably put in his head by Fox and Friends. hopefully the foreign and defense policy establishment will come up with something and manipulate him into taking it. Options are few unless we can get the Russians to withdraw, say by destroying Syria’s harbor so utterly that they lose interest in the deal, although I cannot see an occupation coming.
The best hope is to shore up Rojawa and may covertly remove or kill Turkey’s Islamist President, who is threatening it because of his hate for the Kurds. Rojawa is place where the yeast of their transformation might transform Syria as a whole, but I don’t think Trump would endorse their cooperative socialism. Indeed, he is likely unaware. We should keep it that way so we can continue to assist them.
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