The kurds lost their homeland in Syria which they fought for with US forces in the battle agaist Isis, losing 11 thousand of their men and women. Tonight they were sold out by Trump who says he saved millions of lives. It will be remembered by the kurds as the greatest betrayal.
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The Soviets had to fight, because they were being attacked by Hitler. it was as much their cause as ours; they didn’t fight on our behalf. I wouldn’t call them allies or even friends. Afterward, they wanted as much as they could take (and still do.) We owe them nothing.
That's the point. The Kurds didn't go looking for a fight either, it was resist ISIS or die. We also owe them nothing.
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They put boots on the ground, so the US didn't have to. They fought with the US against ISIS and others in different theaters over a decade. And when they needed the US to help them against an aggressive state. One man decided against all other calls, to let them get slaughtered.
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Defending your own territory doesn't count as "putting boots on the ground", as if Kurdistan is a million miles from Raqqa. They're not Canada or Australia volunteering to go across the Atlantic and help Britain in the World Wars. They're a badger defending its' den.
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The Kurds, in Syria, in Iraq, have been an oppressed people, victims of more than one attempt at genocide. That we are as a nation supposedly opposed to genocide, our decency demands we stand by them.
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Ethnic massacre is not genocide. Genocide is genocide. No one has ever tried to exterminate the Kurds and their latest eight day with Turkey is also not an example.
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1/We would not have gotten ISIS to near-extinction w/o the Kurds. When Trump ordered our troops to step aside to let Turkish forces in to kill them, they were helping US soldiers guard ISIS prisoners that were IN US CUSTODY. And they stayed w/us, even as Turkey went further than
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2/they claimed they would, forcing us our Kurd helpers to run for their lives. We are seeing vids of Turkish soldiers shouting ISIS slogans & US soldiers reporting these soldiers are committing atrocities. Exactly what has to occur before you say we owe our allies something?
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