For anyone in any doubt that American politicians are more concerned with their own parochial agendas than the literal survival of their supposed "allies" they need look no further than the desperately sad plight of the Kurdish people. The Kurds in N.E. Syria have put their lives and livelihoods on the line to win Syrian territory back from the evil theocracy of Islamism (aka ISIS). Following the withdrawal of American troops from the area they now have to swallow the loss of that territory, territory gained with their own blood and bravery, to superior firepower from a Turkish army who did sweet FA to remove ISIS when they were still a force to be reckoned with. As if to rub salt into this wound we have to put up with Turkey being a NATO member. Clearly the Kurdish situation is a very complex one since they don't have their own state, but if you take a high-level perspective it's clear that the USA has now let them down on at least 3 occasions in recent times, the previous two being in N.E. Iraq. We wonder who the US is going to turn to now should ISIS re-emerge from the chaos that the Turks are inflicting, a plague on both their houses I say..
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