The Kurdish Peshmerga are the only force in the region who will defend Iraqi and Syrian Christians. I'd assume our CIC is OK with this.
Well, if I believe this general, they were surprised or outraged or blindsided by whatever the Turks did (and I confess I don’t have the precise hierarchy of the involved players memorized) then they were de facto skunked. Skunked = surprised.
I can’t say what the 0bama admin wants, other than to opine they would like Iran to become the utterly dominant force in the ME. As to whatever happens to the Turks or the Kurds (large or small) or the Peshmerga or the Yazidis or Hezboleh or the Kardashians, he could care less. Valerie Jarret wants Iran to run that part of the world and 0bama does what she says.