The commitment is based on many lives lost as we helped SDF (Kurds and Arabs) fight to end ISIS Terrorists.
Now we witness our NATO ally (sarcasm) Turkey attacking Kurds in N. Syria with the help of ISIS and al Qaeda. Russia has allowed this, by opening the airspace to Turkey. Otherwise, Turkey would never have succeeded like they have. And it has not been fast. This has been going on 2 months.
Turkey is leveling whole villages and intends to resettle foreign elements where they kill those who have peacefully live in Efrin avoiding the war. And Turks are bombing civilian targets with impunity.
We lost a lot of trust from Turkey after using them to set up that downing of a Russian fighter over Syria. Erdogan had to do some major ass kissing with Putin over that. We created that opening. The law of unintended consequences.
And then there is that Gullen/ coup thing that Russia convinced Turkey was backed by certain political forces in the US ( cough cough)
What did we expect Turkey to do ? Or Putin?
Do you really believe like Hillary apparently that closing Syrian airspace to Turkey was ever an option? Given our own use of Turkish bases to operate into Syria and throughout the middle east. .. were gonna tell him he cant go after PKK?
Did we ever shootdown a Turkish plane or give our allies the Kurds the missiles to shoot down our other allies the Turks? Who helped obama shelter and resupply our other allies ISIS? Who brutally slaughtered our allies the Kurds?
Of all the bad things to blame on Putin, Turkeys ambitions and behavior has to be a shared problem. If instead of name calling and chest bumping vs Putin we were working on shared interests with Russia, we’d be working together vs Erdogan.
Turkey is now demanding our withdrawal from Manjib. Lets see what happens.