10-12-2019, 08:26 PM
(10-08-2019, 01:42 PM)David Horn Wrote: commitments with the Kurds which they kept in full
We kept our commitments in full, too. We agreed to fight alongside the Kurds against the Islamic State.
We did not, however, agree to help defend a new Kurdish state against Turkey. And they did not agree to help with some of the things we wanted, either. If they had been fully aligned with us, they would have helped against the Islamic State further south, at Dayr al Zor and Abu Kamal, helping us to interdict Iranian supplies to Hezbollah. Instead, the Kurds declined to help us in that fight.
If the Kurds want our help defending a Kurdish state, they should head south, and establish it in eastern Syria, or east, and establish it in western Iran, places where we'd have an interest in holding ground. They shouldn't expect us to help them establish a kurdish state in a position to destabilize Turkey, a NATO ally.