Fox News reports a U.S. Special Forces soldier who most recently trained Kurdish fighters in Syria denounced his country's decision to remove troops from northern Syria. "I am ashamed for the first time in my career," the soldier said. "Turkey is not doing what it agreed to. It's horrible…We met every single security agreement. The Kurds met every single agreement. There was NO threat to the Turks - NONE - from this side of the border…I don't know what they call atrocities but they are happening."
A Special Forces soldier in Syria says he is ashamed, as he and his fellow soldiers “stand down” at the order of their Commander-in-Chief and watch their comrades in arms (Kurds) being attacked. I’m ashamed, too, because the “green light” was given for this situation to happen by the United States of America. The U.S. “stand down” permits Turkey to do something it has long wanted to do—get rid of the Kurds. Anyone with any historical insight knows this has been a long-standing objective of Turkey. The conflict between Turkey and the Kurdish people goes all the way back to the Ottoman Empire, but it escalated in 1978 and has continued to the present time.
It is true that the Kurds were not with us at Normandy--but they have been with us in Syria as allies for the past five years, losing over 11,000 of their own in the fight against Isis. To desert them, to leave them at the mercy of Turkey, is despicable.
If Turkey’s incursion into Syria should become an “ethnic cleansing” of the Kurdish people, we, America, will have their blood on our hands.
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