‘I Want to Finish This’: US Special Ops Leaders Urge Washington to Stick by the Syrian Kurds

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 ‘I Want to Finish This’: US Special Ops Leaders Urge Washington to Stick by the Syrian Kurds

    By Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

September 13, 2017


Commanders inside Syria say rebels are doing all they hoped for — and are the best shot to break the region's cycle of terrorism.

KOBANI, Syria – Talking with American special operators as we walk in the summer heat through the sprawling training facilities of the Syrian Arab Coalition, one sentiment is immediately obvious: relief.

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[DB]

We walked away from the Kurds once before after encouraging them to take on Saddam and at least 100,000 of them died as a result. That stain is on us and shouldn't be repeated.

[TomSea]

I hope we do stand by them.

Another issue where a lot is happening.

We'll see what Turkey and to a lesser degree, Iran, Syria and Russia do.