[Sarcasm Factory]

Ayuh, that's what I was thinking. So-called Kurdistan still exists in Iraq. Let that be the message sent and not the coda of withdrawing vulnerable, highly trained Americans from a danger zone in which they no longer need be present.

OMG, we can't betray the Kurds even though half of them are outright Communists, a quarter of them are loyal to Iran, and the remaining quarter are in it for the $200 and three cartons of cigarettes they're paid every month.

When the Turks start gassing them bomb the Turks. Otherwise let the Turks, Iranians, Syrians, Iraqis, and Kurds finish this fight they've been having off and on, with the parties shifting who they're allied with from time to time, for at least the past thousand or so years.

[Rashputin]

I'm so old I remember when Communist Kurds were attacking the Shah's forces along the border with Turkey leading to many a wadded pair of panties in Washington and predictions of the Rapture within a week from many a pulpit in this country.

For the political crowd and their minions, accurate history and the truth about the "freedom fighters" it's currently fashionable to support are nearly as frightening as the photos of them sexually molesting a toddler showing up on Youtube.