[Jim W N]

Remove the Kurds, but DON’T remove the whey.

[piytar]

We need to protect the Kurds if out of self interest if nothing else. They have been good allies. Provide them air cover? Or am I wrong?

[House Atreides]

The Islamist Turks ARE NOT our friends...the Kurds ARE. Hopefully, Trump will be wise enough to provide the Syrian Kurds with MANY effective anti-tank, anti-vehicular weapons, anti-aircraft weapons and other military aid...both financial and material.

The Kurds fought and are still fighting ISIS. The Turks cooperated and continue to cooperate with ISIS and other Islamist groups in Syria.

[mrsmith]

Two main paths are open:
Syria lets the Kurds and Turks kill each other off in the NE, and Syria fights off Turks in the Aleppo corridor.
Or
Syria helps Kurds defend NE and use Kurds to fight off Turks in the corridor and in Afrin.

The second is the wiser choice, but- it’s the Middle East.

[himno hero]

...Turkey and Iran to fill the void, wiping out America’s allies.
What can go wrong with that other than smouldering Damascus?

[Carriage Hill]

The Kurds would crush a same-sized force of Turks.

[familyop]

Relations between Turkey, Russia deepening, Putin says after meeting with top Turkish officials
https://www.dailysabah.com/diplomacy/2018/08/24/relations-between-turkey-russia-deepening-putin-says-after-meeting-with-top-turkish-officials

Relations between Turkey and the Russian Federation
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey
http://www.mfa.gov.tr/relations-between-turkey-and-the-russian-federation.en.mfa

Turkey, Russia deepen ties amid troubled relations with West
April 2, 2018
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-turkey-russia-ties-20180402-story.html

There’s also a chance that the Kurds will join them to have a chance to survive (rumored meetings).

[familyop]

Russia and China are both tightening control on religions in their countries again while using radical Islamist countries as international military tools (Iran, Pakistan, etc.).

[McGruff]

Sounds like an invasion of another country to me.

[veracious]

Determined to conquer and occupy a part of the state of Syria.

[zeestephen]

Are the Kurds Christian, or non-Muslim, or a breakaway Muslim sect?

I know their next door neighbors, the Armenians, are Christian.

[Pinkbell]

Trump shouldn’t pull troops out if the Kurds will get hurt.