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The great thing about that is, it’s always night somewhere.

At first glance it does seem we sold the Kurds down the river, and for what gain? On the other hand this group could be right and perhaps we were in the wrong - not necessarily to back the Kurdish people, but in letting the whole conflict get long in the tooth by not keeping them in check because of the myriad complications - smallish military deployment, flooding of weapons etc.

It’s one big clusterfull over there. In Syria in particular there are at least 4 different sides fighting - Syrian government, anti-government rebels, ISIS, Kurds... But over it all is the supreme error made by Obama and Kerry (and to a lesser degree Hillary) and the CIA et al. They never saw the Russian deployment coming? With all their negotiations with Iran - the penultimate backer of the Syrian regime? Obama’s red lines/no red lines regime change/no regime change vacillation was sure to send Assad into fits of paranoia and he sought all the benefactors he could find. Iran stepped up first. Russia of course leaped for joy at the prospect and immediately agreed to send 50,000 troops!

For all of Carter’s faults, he got the damn commies out of the middle east with Camp David and out they stayed for 40 years. No toehold in the ME. No warm water ports for its navy. Obama undid it all - by design or by neglect we may never know. But for all that hokey about “Trump Russia” one things is certain - Russia never profited so much as it did under Obama-Kerry-Clinton. They got Iranian energy deals, nuclear deals, they got Syria, they got warm water ports in the Mediterranean, they got US Uranium and who knows what else... But sure, Trump was under Putin’s sway. What ridiculous misdirection all that was and what a stupid class of journalists we have in this country. Sorry for ranting and digressing...