https://www.foxnews.com/politics/tu...-syria-us-backed-kurds-have-vowed-all-out-war What a shame. We need to stop backstabbing the Kurds. they have been detrimental in the US wars against Iraq and ISIS. this is bad on so many levels. we are basically handing the Kurdish fighters to Turkish and Iranian forces in northern Syria.
mr bogenhagen, we agree on this one! the Kurds are some jammin dudes without doubt. when did the US Govt. first go into Syria i wonder. man it gets to be a blur once you don't update your scorecare often enough. ugh the Kurds. Kurdistan was erased from the world's maps after World War I when the Allied Powers carved up the Middle East and denied the Kurds a nation-state. More than twenty million Kurds live in parts of Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Syria. Throughout the 20th century their struggles for political and cultural autonomy were opposed by the region's countries and the Kurds were often used as pawns in regional politics. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/saddam/kurds/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backstabbing_for_Beginners The Kurds' plight most recently captured the world's attention in 1991 following the end of the Gulf War. Television around the world showed images of northern Iraq's Kurds fleeing Saddam Hussein's Iraq through the mountains of Turkey and Iran. Since the 1920s, negotiations between Iraq's Kurds and the government in Baghdad have always broken down over issues of Kurdish independence, and the Kurds' wish to control the oil-rich city of Kirkuk and to have their own militia. In America's dealings with Saddam Hussein and Iraq, Iraq's Kurds have been a tragic side show. For decades, they looked to the U.S. for support in their struggle against Saddam's government. Washington's response has been classic realpolitik - using the Kurds when it wanted to hurt Saddam and then dropping them when their usefulness had run out. [See the chronology] For this FRONTLINE report, "The Survival of Saddam," producer Greg Barker interviewed key Kurdish leaders and senior American officials who discuss the long, bitter relationship between the U.S. and the Kurds of northern Iraq. Here are those interviews: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/saddam/kurds/
Kurdistan was erased from the world's maps after World War I when the Allied Powers carved up the Middle East and denied the Kurds a nation-state. More than twenty million Kurds live in parts of Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Syria. Throughout the 20th century their struggles for political and cultural autonomy were opposed by the region's countries and the Kurds were often used as pawns in regional politics. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/saddam/kurds/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backstabbing_for_Beginners The Kurds' plight most recently captured the world's attention in 1991 following the end of the Gulf War. Television around the world showed images of northern Iraq's Kurds fleeing Saddam Hussein's Iraq through the mountains of Turkey and Iran. Since the 1920s, negotiations between Iraq's Kurds and the government in Baghdad have always broken down over issues of Kurdish independence, and the Kurds' wish to control the oil-rich city of Kirkuk and to have their own militia. In America's dealings with Saddam Hussein and Iraq, Iraq's Kurds have been a tragic side show. For decades, they looked to the U.S. for support in their struggle against Saddam's government. Washington's response has been classic realpolitik - using the Kurds when it wanted to hurt Saddam and then dropping them when their usefulness had run out. [See the chronology] For this FRONTLINE report, "The Survival of Saddam," producer Greg Barker interviewed key Kurdish leaders and senior American officials who discuss the long, bitter relationship between the U.S. and the Kurds of northern Iraq. Here are those interviews: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/saddam/kurds/
cued up Global Warfare: “We’re Going to Take out 7 Countries in 5 Years: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan & Iran..” Video Interview with General Wesley Clark Originally published in March 2007. https://www.globalresearch.ca/we-re...q-syria-lebanon-libya-somalia-sudan-iran/5166 http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/753496.html .