on't think we have to worry about anything. I think we have a full free shot. It's a free pass anyway.

So there's more to that story than I understand so probably somebody smart needs to explain to me why we're not already acting militarily against the cartels.

Here's an interesting question for you. Find somebody who has a strong opinion on the Syrian situation. Doesn't matter which position they take. Maybe they're pro-Trump, maybe anti-Trump but they have a strong opinion on it. And then ask them to draw a map of Syria and the neighboring countries as just a little experiment to see how much they know about the region. Just say okay it doesn't have to be to scale or anything but could you draw like a conceptual map and then draw Turkey and the neighboring countries. I just want to see if you know what the neighborhood looks like. Very few people could do that but they would still have a strong opinion about what should happen over there. You sort of have to see it on a map and be able to conceptualize it on a map to have a strong opinion on it. Same with Yemen and Saudi Arabia. You probably say to yourself hey why is Saudi Arabia messing with Yemen? Have you seen a map? Look at the map. If you look at the map you'll know exactly why Saudi Arabia is massacring people in Yemen because they can't accept an unfriendly entity right on their border. Nobody can. Well except the United States apparently. We let the cartels ship us weapons of mass destruction every day and we let them live.

Sorry if the density came. Does it sound like I had a little bit of blood thirst when it involves fentanyl being shipped to our borders? Because I do. I do have a little bit of a blood thirst. I cop to that.

So I was watching some video of Syria in which dead bodies were being paraded through the streets to show how awful the Turks are. And even the news said we can't quite verify that these people are first of all really dead and second of all that they died because of Turkey. So even the news is saying we think people are dying but we don't have any confirmation. Isn't that a hell of a, what kind of a massacre has no confirmed deaths? I mean I assume people are dying because there's military action but we don't have any confirmed deaths. It's the biggest going on and we can't get decent news because everybody is talking about the Kurds being left to be massacred. And obviously that's worth worrying about but does anything like that happening? I just don't know if anything like that is happening.

And the Kurds are a legitimate threat to Turkey. If the roles were reversed, if this were the United States and we had known terrorists on our border who were working with people who were not terrorists but some of them were, would we act the same way Turkey is acting? Of course we would. If you reverse the situation and say okay now you're Turkey you've got to take care of the Turkish people what are you gonna do? You've got terrorists on your border who are creating a homeland you don't like. Understand the Turks are doing exactly what we would do in that situation. Exactly what we would do. So it's hard for me to come down hard on the Turks for doing exactly what we would do. It's part of the same reason that I'm supportive of Israel in general even when they're you know somewhat let's say somewhat militaristic because it's what we would do if we were in their situation. We'd act a lot like they act. So I try not to get into the hypocrite territory by acting as if we would do anything differently.

My take on this is that the president shook the box. Probably some people got killed. Probably some people would get killed under every scenario. There's probably no scenario in which nobody gets killed. You get that right? The people who are saying hey the president made a big mistake the way he did this because some people are getting killed, well nobody wants people to get killed but what was the plan where nobody got killed? Nobody has that plan.