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Assad now has the dominant military ground force in Syria, especially with the Russian support.

We need Assad and the Syrian Kurds as a check against Turkish imperialism and a check against Iranian aggression against Israel and as a check against the remaining AQ/ISIS/salafist jihadists.

But the Kurds are poor and need much more training and military hardware and military bases. They need armor and artillery and helo assault forces.

If we can hold onto the Omar oilfields for them, the Kurds can afford all that.

The oilfield belongs to the government of Syria.

We should turn it over to them the very instant they can hold it.

If we donate any hardware to anyone it should be the government of Syria, not the Kurds.

US interests are served ONLY by government control over every square inch of Syrian territory.

*** But the Kurds are poor and need much more training and military hardware and military bases. They need armor and artillery and helo assault forces.

If we can hold onto the Omar oilfields for them, the Kurds can afford all that. ***

I hope you would be all “rah, rah, go Mexico” if all the Mexican Nationals took West Texas’ oilfields because they are poor, and deserve autonomy. The Mexican Military can send troops onto US soil to assure the success of the theft.

“We need Assad and the Syrian Kurds as a check against Turkish imperialism and a check against Iranian aggression against Israel”

That is totally unrealistic. Whatever Assad is he is not a check against Iranian agression against Israel. Both Russia and Iran’s Quds force commanders are embeded in the Syria government armed forces, and many levels including leadership levels and even leading commands as well. As the Iranians in Syria are today, together with Assad they are not being checked in terms of real and potential Iranian aggression against Israel. While Hezbolla (Iran’s proxy in Syria) has been helping Assad against his oponents, they have become the largest force in Syria across the border from Israel.

“But the Kurds are poor and need much more training and military hardware and military bases. They need armor and artillery and helo assault forces.”

That is not going to be coming from the U.S. now.

“If we can hold onto the Omar oilfields for them, the Kurds can afford all that.”

We are not holding the Omar oil fields “for the Kurds”. We are still there to keep them out of the hands of ISIS. By bet is that as soone as Assad/Russia can consolidate control of northern Syria - howver long it takes - we will hand off control of the Omar fields to the government of Syria. From then on it will be up to them to keep them out of ISIS hands.

THAT may be where the Kurdish fighters might manage to get some autonomy from Assad, by doing the heavy lifting in any fighting to protect the Omar oil fields, for Syria, so they don’t fall back into ISIS hands.