A delegation visiting D.C. from Kurdistan is scrambling to get the most
out of their lobbying efforts toward US officials. The focus is deeply
centered on trying to slow, or outright stall, the US pullout from
Syrian Kurdistan.
Though there aren’t a lot of on-the-record statements about the matter, it seems the Kurds are struggling to get their way on this.
President Trump was very clear about pulling out of Syria, and if his
own administration and the Pentagon didn’t talk him out of it, the
Kurdish delegation probably didn’t have much chance at any rate.
Slowing down the pullout may be attainable, as President Trump has yet
to provide a firm timeline. The Kurdish lobbyists are also pushing for
the US to give them a bunch of guarantees about Turkey, in particular
keeping them from controlling the “safe zone” they’re establishing in
northern Syria.
On the one hand, officials are issuing assurances that they will make
sure their Kurdish allies are protected. At the same time, they’ve
provided no specifics on how they plan to make that happen, beyond vague
talks with Turkey.
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The Kurds are a very good reason to pull out from American Kurdistan.
Erdogan is never going to turn a blind eye to Kurdish PKK separatism, and American Kurdistan would only empower the PKK in the long run if allowed to stand.
The title of the essay is totally laughable; just as much idiocy as the Huffington Post, claiming the other day that China wants to take over the world; as though, somehow, their sh** doesn’t stink as well. America will never do what’s right because it’s run by a bunch of blood thirsty sociopaths, always has been always will be; almost all Americans would be more than happy to step into a gas chamber to be killed if their government asked them to, because there’s absolutely no difference at all between the will of god and the will of the State. As our allegiance says, as all children are forced to say, ‘to God and to my country’. The U.S. is a theocracy and the Nazis were our handiwork, if anyone should ever doubt it.
The Kurds are wasting their time. They should be in Damascus and Moscow making a real deal.