Syria and the Kurds
21st October 2019
A few points:
- Trump did not “betray our allies the Kurds”. The Kurds are not our allies. We have no alliance with the Kurds. Kurd forces cooperate with American and other forces because we have a common enemy, just as American forces cooperate with Russian forces against common enemies, like ISIS, but the Kurds aren’t our allies any more than the Russians are our allies.
- Kurdish forces worked hand-in-glove with the PKK, a harcdore communist terrorist organization that has been committing atrocities against Turkish civilians for as long as I’ve been alive. Needless to say, the Turks don’t like this, and I can’t say that I blame them.
- Trump didn’t “pull our forces out of Syria.” He shifted 50 people from in the way of the Turkish operation to further west in Syria, troops that were in the way of the Turkish operation and were totally incapable of stopping said operation even if we’d wanted to.
- We have no commitment to the Kurds beyond our commitment to everybody else in the Middle East to promote peace and discourage terrorism and atrocities.
So all this hot air from the Democrats( and their poodles Conservatism Inc.) is just more anti-Trump hot air.