Fighting stupid wars that this country had no business ever fighting in the first place. Can you explain the national interest we have in taking sides in civil wars halfway around the world?
Sorry that they don’t meet your textbook definition of a country but not recognizing them as an allied fighting force of the US is beyond preposterous.
The Kurds have been engaged in a decades-long insurgency in Turkey. In fact, the Kurdish political party in Turkey (the PKK) is considered a terrorist organization by the Turkish government.
It is preposterous on its face to have the U.S. maintaining an "alliance" with an ethic group inside the borders of a country that has a mutual defense treaty with the U.S.
Do you think it's a coincidence that these military campaigns have been foisted on the American public by the same globalist @ssholes who are hell-bent on eliminating our own borders here in the U.S.?
We are talking about the middle east here not Europe and as such tribalism that spans borders is always at play.If your
argument is that Syria has a cohesive governing entity, you might want to run that by the alawites, kurds, yakuzi,
arabs,Iranians, Russians,Turks, al qaeda all of whom have decided it is not.Sorry but when it comes to Syria as
currently constituted, you don’t pick a government, you pick a tribe as your allied fighting force in advancing your
interests. We started out by aligning ourselves with the wrong one, the “rebels” better known as al Qaeda vs the
“legitimate” government but fortunately wound up with the right one, the Kurds who were instrumental alongside the US
in clearing out ISIS. Same goes for the Iraqi Kurds whom we protected even though they did not meet the neat textbook
definition of a nation and who were instrumental in both Iraq wars in fighting the “legitimate” government of Saddam
alongside the US and then stopping the initial spread of ISIS there when the “legitimate”Iraqi government forces ran
away and ceded the territory to ISIS.Absolutely the Kurds are advancing their own interests in forging a nation for themselves in that region and accordingly they are a thorn in the sides of Iraq, Iran, Syria and Turkey. not exactly friends in my book. I agree with you we had no business in Syria in the first place and absolutely no business in Libya.The jury is still out on Iraq. But when we committed ourselves there it was always against the existing government so necessarily we needed a tribal ally. The Kurds consistently were that ally.Whether we should have been there or not is another question. I fully agree with you and Trump that we need to stay out of the middle east but should terrorism from there raise its ugly head here again the Kurds are a valuable fighting force for us.