{"id":13166,"date":"2019-10-17T18:26:59","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T01:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=13166"},"modified":"2019-10-20T11:54:06","modified_gmt":"2019-10-20T18:54:06","slug":"syria-disaster-trump-meltdown-a-fallen-giant-bradcast-10172019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=13166","title":{"rendered":"Syria ‘Disaster’, Trump ‘Meltdown’, a Fallen Giant: ‘BradCast’ 10\/17\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m still out of breath from today’s BradCast<\/i><\/a>, even after I had to cut a whole bunch of breaking (and not so breaking) news to make room for the sad passing of a much-beloved<\/a> Congressional giant.<\/p>\n

We begin today with the devastating news of the untimely death<\/a> of 68-year old Congressman Elijah Cummings (D-MD), the larger than life Chair of the House Oversight and Reform Committee whose extraordinary 23-year legacy in Congress and decades of civil rights work before it has left an indelible mark<\/a> on the nation and our ongoing fight for democracy and equal justice for all.<\/p>\n

Next up, as support for the impeachment and removal from office of Donald J. Trump continues to build<\/a>, chaos continues to unravel in the Middle East following his recent green light for Turkey’s invasion of Northern Syria. Trump’s approval, given to Turkish President Erdogan on a recent phone call, stunned White House aides, the Pentagon, bi-partisan members of Congress, and our Kurdish allies in the long fight against ISIS in the region.<\/p>\n

It also led to an incredibly bonkers threat letter<\/a> sent by the U.S. President to his Turkish counterpart (which was ignored); the escape of ISIS prisoners<\/a> being held by the now-endangered and fleeing Kurds; Kurdish forces choosing to ally<\/a> with Russian and Iran-backed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as Turkish and Russian forces rolled onto bases previously occupied by the U.S. and the Kurds; the U.S. military being forced to bomb its own military outpost<\/a> and ammo dump near the Turkish border; bi-partisan condemnation from Congress (including from Senator Majority Leader Mitch McConnell<\/a> and a lopsided 354 to 60 resolution vote<\/a> in the U.S. House against the Trump policy), Russia’s emergence as the new power-broker in the Middle East, and a meeting between Democratic Congressional leaders and the President on Wednesday that ended with furious Democrats storming out<\/a> after Trump reportedly insulted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as a “third-rate politician” and suggesting that the Democrats were communist sympathizers in what the Speaker described as a “meltdown” after she charged that “all roads lead to Putin”<\/a> with this President.<\/p>\n

And, amidst that chaos today, after Vice President Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo were dispatched to Ankara to try and clean up the mess created by Trump with Turkey, a supposed “deal” was struck for a short-term cease-fire<\/a> to allow the Kurds (and U.S. troops) to retreat, while all but giving Turkey everything that it had sought on the Turkish\/Syrian border for years, with the U.S. promising to lift economic sanctions against its NATO ally.<\/p>\n

It’s all even more disastrous<\/a> than that, according to Trump’s own former Envoy in the Fight to Defeat ISIS who calls<\/a> the new U.S. policy a “disaster” and “totally incoherent”, and a former FBI official who warns<\/a> that Trump is “spiraling down into a dangerous posture”, acting in “almost total isolation” and is now “incredibly vulnerable” to foreign manipulation. But you’ll have to both tune in and buckle up for the full details. They are worse than they sound.<\/p>\n

Finally, Desi Doyen joins us for the latest Green News Report<\/i><\/a> with coverage of the lack of climate questions raised at the recent 2020 Democratic Presidential Debate in Ohio, California’s latest plans to foil Trump’s fossil fuel schemes in the Golden State and much more!…<\/p>\n

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