Well this old Marine does not like the idea of abandoning a faithful ally to the likes of Turkey. Trump is going to lose a lot of support over this. Turkey is an Islamic state and becoming more and more radical. No way I can defend Trump on this, it stinks to high heaven to leave the kurds unprotected after they fought side by side with us against ISIS. Bad move Mr President, bad bad bad move. Read a little history on Turkey and genocide.
They fought with us against ISIS because they hate ISIS. Our interests dovetailed ... this move cost the Kurds nothing; it was no grand gesture of support for the Americans --- and it gained them money, equipment and training.
The Kurds have yet to consolidate their own internal fractions and continue to operate under fragmented and weak leadership. If the Kurds are serious about carving out a state of their own, they need to hold an internal Council of Trent to figure out how to stop fighting each other and unify. Until and unless they do this, the Kurds are blowing smoke up the world's skirt ... trying to use us to fight not only ISIS but their own internal skirmishes.
The Middle East is nothing more than a massive spider web of tribe within tribe within tribe .... and they're all fighting each other. They have been doing so for centuries and will continue to do so until time itself ends.
You think this is a bad move. I could respect this
@jpsb if you tell me why this is worth losing one man or one woman wearing the American military uniform. What do we gain?