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Alright, you have raised a legitimate concern.

I want excised from the Middle East. None of the conflicts we are involved in should still be occurring and one of them (Gulf War 2) never should have happened at all. We should have put all parties on notice that we are winding down. ISIS fighters should be sentenced and imprisoned by Iraq and Syria for invading and taking those nations’ territory. Death sentences should be handed out like candy to them. We should have warned the Kurds that we cannot help them fight to carve out territory either. We then should have given a firm date on the start of withdrawal.

I don’t feel good about “leaving people to be slaughtered” if that is indeed what is happening. We truly don’t know as of yet. If it had been me making the decisions, I would be going around to the UN and talking to the countries involved about what is going on and what their plans are. I would get a definite plan from Turkey and I would have arranged my withdrawal around that plan. I would have even helped evacuate the Kurds further from the area if needed as I started to leave.

At no point should the Kurds have been promised anything regarding their ethnic struggle or their cause. At no point should they alone have been left “guarding” the ISIS fighters.

I would have left Turkey with a FIRM warning about any atrocities they might want to inflict. Discussion about their suspension or eviction from NATO, suspension of any U.S. aid, diplomatic activity at the UN, and if needed, help the Kurds push them back across the border into Turkey if they launch a slaughter against anyone other than terrorists.

I think I am being more than fair in a situation we can do little about. What say you?