Great question. And Kurds are an ethnicity, not a state. So they don’t qualify as an ally in the traditional sense.
We abandoned the Kurds in the 1970’s, too. We have to look after our national interests & not be embroiled in every ethnic conflict around the world.
You mean after the first Iraq war?
They rebelled against Saddam...
Thinking Bush the elder would help.
He didn’t and...