Is President Trump somehow betraying the Kurds?
This is just another stick to beat the Trump piñata with.
We
need to get outta there. That area of the world ate up Roman
legions and a number of Roman emperors -- Julian the Apostate comes to
mind, but so does the far more worthy Valerian.
It's
a part of the world trapped in endless, endemic war, and was before the
coming of Islam or the Mongols hoards. (Islam and the Mongol hoards
made it worse.)
George
H.W. Bush "betrayed" the Kurds, too, as did his son. Hell, the Kurds
were "betrayed" by Picot and Sykes after WWI. The Brits "betrayed" them
again when they left Iraq after WWII. The only "peace" the Kurds knew
was when the Achaemenid Persian Empire ruled that entire
area, and ironically enough, it was a Western conqueror, none other than
Alexander himself, who overthrew them and ushered yet another
millennium of brutal slaughter.
If Alex couldn't pull it off, who are we to try?
We need to get out. It's as simple as that.
A "great power" is precisely that because it can chose when to fight, and when not to fight. Read Sun Tzu.
In
fact, I think President Trump will do that region more good by us
getting outta there than us staying. If we leave, and ignore the idiotic
provocations of both Iran and Turkey, both of the regimes might well
fall; they're probably headed for a collision course with each other
anyway. If they're chaos grows, then powers more in need of the region's oil can become involved.
Israel can defend itself. It's a nuclear nation and nothing terrifies like nukes, which is why the Iranians want nukes so badly, of course.
AnP
