I think I'll keep to my knowledge of hitting a baseball.
;-)
No, no, no! Don’t keep to your baseball!
This is the reason why we come to FR...even if you get a few pieces from someone here, that is going to put you far ahead of those who view CNN or the other alphabet news outlets.
I am willing to bet the vast majority of people you speak to on this subject think of the Kurds in the same way the Montagnards were viewed: as being under the thumb of a repressive regime we are at odds with, who helped us and then we abandoned to their fates.
Generally, the Kurds in Syria are Sunni Marxists (PKK) with a minuscule smattering of Christians mixed in.
I believe many of the Kurds in Iraq were KDP Kurds, who we might view as “Secular” muslims. They are not as focused on the calls to prayer or muslim strictures, and are more likely to separate government from religion, whereas devout muslims do not generally accept that kind of separation of government and religion. They were more closely aligned with Turkey, although I suspect that is because Saddam persecuted them pretty rigorously.
The Left probably thinks of Kurds as being one monolithic entity, and they happen to like the Communist variety IMO.