US Betrayal of the Kurds

A summary of the latest events regarding the relationship between the US and the Syrian Kurds with an appropriate headline: US Betrayal of the Kurds – A Lesson that Bears Repeating – For the Region and the World

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Originally Posted by Dmitry Minn The bizarrely intertwined events of the Syrian conflict are suddenly playing out in a less than logical manner, but in fact this big reversal for the Kurds – who make up about 10% of Syria’s population – is no surprise. Although they’ve not lost a single battle and have made real gains in their fight against the Islamic State (IS), they have suddenly found themselves forced to abandon the vast swaths of the territory they had liberated east of the Euphrates. Now that the Turks have invaded Syria, there is no more talk of granting the Kurds the status of a separate federal region within a new Syrian state – something the Kurds very much want – much less the independence for which many of them have secretly dreamed. [...] The Kurds have once again been cynically used and left with nothing. The duplicity and poor choices of their allies are a curse that has plagued Kurdish history, possibly dating back to the era of the legendary Kurdish military commander Saladin (Salah ad-Din), who vanquished the Crusaders. [...]

Although some think that the long term goal of US foreign policy (and the wish of Israel) is a Kurdish entity, here, in the aftermath of the failed coup in Turkey the Turkish government essentially blames the US for, is shown that the most dreadful even short-term ally one can have is the US Empire.

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