{"id":24730,"date":"2019-10-16T22:43:09","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T02:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/?p=24730"},"modified":"2019-10-16T22:43:09","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T02:43:09","slug":"u-s-southern-border-versus-syrian-northern-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/16\/u-s-southern-border-versus-syrian-northern-border\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. southern border versus Syrian northern border"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Facebook is alive with outrage regarding Donald Trump’s scaling back of our military involvement what will soon be the 9th year of the Syrian Civil War<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The same people who demanded the abolition of ICE and the pulling back of armed U.S. forces patrolling the U.S. southern border are demanding that armed U.S. forces patrol the Syrian northern border. The people who advocate for a wave of migration from Central America into the U.S. are opposed to a wave of re-migration of Syrians currently in Turkey back across the northern border into their original home (map from the BBC<\/a>, which says “Turkey launched the offensive in northern Syria a week ago to push back from its border members of a Syrian Kurdish militia called the People’s Protection Units (YPG) and create a ‘safe zone’ along the Syrian side of the border, where up to two million Syrian refugees can be resettled.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Readers: Is Trump wrong? Should we spend the next 10-20 years patrolling the Syrian border and trying to keep our NATO ally Turkey (population 80 million) from doing what it deems prudent in its immediate neighborhood?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[If Elizabeth Warren prevails in 2020, will she solve both of these problems by relocating U.S. Border Patrol forces over to northern Syria?]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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