So the US is powerless to protect the Kurds in Syria?
Unless we get out of the way so Assad and his allies can fight the Turks or we ally with Syria and help them. That gets tricky because Turkey and the US are NATO allies. Another issue is there are fighters we trained, financed, and supported against Assad who ARE the bad guys.
We have no business in Syria, never did. They're an independent nation. There used to be a pretense our soldiers and contractors weren't there, that we we helping citizen rebels. Our leaders aren't even pretending that's so anymore.
American money and blood is not limitless and when American soldiers die, they stay dead. We have no obligation to protect the Kurds.
My own interpretation of Trump’s latest statements vis-a-vis Syria is that, to my great and grave disappointment, I believe he is going to abandon the Kurds, while continuing to waste our treasure and lives in Afghanistan, when, in my view, it should be the other way around. Before too long the Kurds will be caught between the terrorist Turks and a resurgent ISIS. It may change may vote in 2020.