[Zhang Fei]

[You’re a propagandist]

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I’m a propagandist for America’s friends. The Syrian Kurds have taken a huge amount of punishment - far more than the Iraqi Kurds have done. They could have run away to Europe. They stayed and fought.

Trump’s comparisons to Normandy are inapt. Our “allies” there fought for the same reason as the Syrian Kurds - to keep their identities separate from a conquering power. Apart from the Soviets, who fought the Germans to avoid being killed to the last man, woman and child, after they helped the Germans kick off WWII, the US took the largest number of soldiers killed on European battlefields. The Syrian Kurds have lost about 10,000 dead. The US has lost 8. That’s how the Syrian Kurds have been way better allies than all of Western Europe combined.

Most of our so-called allies are little more than hangers-on. The Syrian Kurds are a big exception. And that’s why the Special Forces people on the ground aren’t too thrilled at the thought of abandoning them to their fate, even as they were fairly blase about getting out of Afghanistan and Iraq.

[mrsmith]

More of my opinion of the “big picture” FWIW:
China wants stability in the region for 2 good reasons:
A rail route through Turkey to Europe for their goods, and a route to the Med for their goods.

Let China pay for that, not us.