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Menu There is no diplomatic solutionIsrael should declare three nos;
no to nuclear Iran, no to two-state solution, no to bi-national state
no to nuclear Iran, no to two-state solution, no to bi-national state
While I agree 100% with this gentleman that the U.S. failure to support Kurdish independence and oppose the oppression of them in all all four countries where Kurds live is wrong, he is wrong to suggest that the U.S. suddenly “deserted” the Kurds, when we had never backed their desire for independence, or at least autonomy, in the first place. And it had never intervened to protect them from oppression by Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran. The United States was happy to use the Kurds to fight ISIS. But it never promised them squat in return.
It has been a persistent aspect of U.S. foreign policy that it uses various “local” groups to advance its policies, then deserts them as soon as they are no longer useful. In Laos, it used the Hmung people (called “Montagnards” by the French) to fight the North Vietnamese, but deserted them the moment the U.S. decided to pull out of Vietnam. It also deserted the millions of anti-Communist Vietnamese who had fought beside the U.S. in Vietnam, when it decided to pull out of Vietnam in 1973, although allowing them a two year “decent interval” (as Kissinger described it) before completing the U.S. withdrawal. The U.S. installed Ngo Dinh Diem as President of South Vietnam in 1954-55, but then had him assasssinated nine years later when he proved uncooperative. The U.S. used the Lebanese Christians to fight Syria and Iran in Lebanon during the Reagan administration, then deserted them as soon as Reagan decided to pull U.S. troops out of Lebanon. The list of these U.S. betrayals of local “allies” can go on and on. Trump’s , and the Pentagon’s decision to abandon the Syrian Kurds is thus nothing new.