I don’t believe I stuttered. The Kurds are the closest to normal. And yes, they have helped us at times.
None of which matters. Their book teaches (paraphrased) My town and yours against the city, my house and yours against the town, You and I against our father, me against you.
Now I tend to think that muslims believe their books teachings. It really doesn’t matter what you and I believe about what THEY believe though. There’s over 1000 years of historical fact and a lot of dead infidels showing it. We are infidel. We are to be used to their advantage then conquered in the name of Allah. That does not stop at Kurd, Egyptian or Jordainian borders and I am amazed you would think it would. Do you think a muslim places his country over his Koran? They believe the planet is their country. The Koran spells it out clearly. So either you think Muslims are all kidding about their faith there is one fact based conclusion.
They aren’t.
Actually, I largely agree with you, it’s a quagmire. If we could, I’d want to evacuate the Christians out of that godforsaken place and perhaps other decent people, set up a state for the Kurds.
It’s really a case for non-intervention but we did not want to do that in the first Gulf War, 1990-91 and here we still are, things are worse. I guess oil was important and that is why we went to fight but maybe we should not have.
The main difference between Kurds, Assad, and ISIS is that Politically the first two are Secular; not that they are “moderate muslims”.
IOW, neither the Kurds nor Assad want to establish a Caliphate. AQ and ISIS do want to establish a Caliphate (government), rule over others according to strict Islamic laws (Shariah) and traditions, and enforce them on others.