The abandonment of the Kurds at Efrin by the West is only the latest in a long line of betrayals. The West also abandoned them to Saddam at Halabja, to Erdogan at Jarablus, to Khomeini at Kirkuk. It's no wonder the Kurdish motto is "We have no friends but the mountains".
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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal
Don't disagree about Efrin, but in what sense did the West abandon Kurds at Halabja? Saddam's regime decided to brutally suppress the Kurds as part of the Anfal campaign of 1988.
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Bush convinced the Kurds to rise up against Saddam toward the end of the Iran-Iraq war, promising them US backing. They rose up, but the backing never came, leaving Saddam free to carry out the Anfal genocide.
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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal
Ok, I didn't know that, but I'd have to check what Bush promised - did he promise to send US forces into Iraq & take on Saddam if he attacked Kurds or was it just promise of arms or funding?
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Replying to @troybison @G_S_Bhogal
The Kurds need & deserve their own independent state - then it won't be so easy for the West to backtrack due to the realpolitik of existing relationships with regimes like Turkey or Iran & Iraq.
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It was some vague promise of support which was taken to mean military support, if I recall correctly.
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