This is the way civil wars are supposed to come to an end. The peace talks should have begun when the Kurds captured Raqqa, effectively defeating ISIS in Kurdish held territory. Instead, they thought they could hold out, for what? A Kurdish state? 'Rojava'? That was never going to happen without long term presence of the USA. Now, the Kurds can negotiate their new role in Syria with Assad. And all it took was Trump getting us out of the way. Maybe we should have done this earlier, like before Turkey threatened invasion.
“Now, the Kurds can negotiate their new role in Syria with Assad.”
This morning, several hours before the deal was announced that Syria would support the Kurds against Turkey, our President tweeted:
“Others may want to come in and fight for one side or the other. Let them!”