[Alberta's Child]

A big problem with your post is that you call the Kurds “allies” (as does everyone else who opposes this move). In international relations this is a meaningless term, since the Kurds are an ethnic group and have no sovereign government of their own.

The days of the U.S. taking sides in foreign civil wars should have ended a long time ago.

[Amberdawn]

Fair enough, but the Kurds are one of the world’s oldest groupings without a country of their own. Saladin, the muslim warrior who fought Crusaders, was a Kurd. He was also one of the few muslim warlords who fought honorably. I think the Kurds have kept this in mind in the intervening centuries. Of course there are “bad” Kurdish people, but overall, they haven’t asked for much from us and what they do get they use to better themselves. How many ‘allies’ have we had that we can say that about? We have been intervening in foreign wars since our country was founded. One reason why we have such a large military today is because we got caught with our pants down just before Pearl Harbor and it cost us dearly.