These are our friends?
I thought they were on our side?
I understand that most kurds follow islam. That makes them untrustworthy and dangerous.
Deserve a state? We’ve given them better than that. We’ve given them their own welfare-covered community in Nashville, Tennessee. Nashville has its “Little Kurdistan” an multiple mosques. Now they can bring back Hee Haw with all kinds of corny Mohammedan humor.
No one who believes in the allah of the koran is friend.
There are no friends in the entire middle east BUT Israel.
Kurds is a loose ethnic term. I’m not sure but there are numerous distinct Kurd factions. Some Kurds are worthy allies and some are simply murderois Islamists. Of course we support the wrong faction (Syrian) and try to cripple the good one (Iraqi).
Anyone whose has a good understanding of this please dive in.
Modern Kurdish leaders and groups (unlike the Turks) have recognized that genocide and their ancestors role in it.
But, incidents like this should make one wonder: How deep down the Kurdish ranks does this turn of heart actually extend?
There must be a mistake here. Many of us on Freerepublic absolutely LOVE the Kurds. They are without fault.
I’ll look for 3rd party confirmation. What he’s saying obviously benefits one side.
Time for the Russians to march in and clear out Syria, push the rabble into Turkey and Iraq.
I’d like to see some confirmation on this. The Kurds don’t have a history of attacking Christians, especially when allied with them against ISIS.
Can we just nuke all non-Christians?
Could be disinformation (this was a major propaganda theme against the Kurds vis a vis the Sunnis earlier this year).
Also could be a political dispute, where the local Christian community or their leaders are supporting the Assad Regime vs. the Local Coordinating Committees of the YPG-led government. Or it could just be plunder by some corrupt local bad eggs.
Before the US shifted their train and equip mission from the Free Syrian Army to the YPG Kurds, they formed the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to put a diverse democratic face on it. Although the SDF was overwhelmingly composed of the Kurdish YPG political party and their militias, the main addition was Assyrian Christian militias. They have been successfully kicking ISIS out of territory together ever since.
It may well be true, but the doctrine of the YPG is very explicitly multi-ethnic and multi-religious democracy (albeit with a cult-like leader and a newly watered down socialist model).
I am leery of believing this uncritically without multiple confirmations - lies are more common than truth over there.
Among all the Islamic nut jobs, they are the least undeserving of a state. They are less undeserving than ISIS and Assad, at any rate. Can’t stop rhyming.
Kurds are Sunni Muslims. They don’t especially like Turks or Arabs but they doesn’t change their attitude toward no-Muslims.
I thought they were supposed to be nice.
I thought they were supposed to be nice.