Will America Abandon the Kurds—Again?

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-12-19 19:19:46 | Updated at 2024-12-28 01:50:34 1 week ago

Will America Abandon the Kurds—Again?
The Free Press ^ | Eli Lake

Posted on 12/19/2024 10:02:35 AM PST by EnderWiggin1970

Call it the dark side of liberation. America’s most loyal allies in Syria, the Kurds, are now facing the wrath of Turkish proxies that helped topple Bashar al-Assad’s tyranny earlier this month. As of now neither President Joe Biden nor president-elect Donald Trump have offered any guarantees for the survival of the 200,000 Kurds who are now at risk of being cleansed from the northeastern city of Kobani and surrounding areas.

“We feel betrayed,” Ilham Ahmed, a Kurd who serves as the de facto foreign minister for the North and East Syrian administration, told The Free Press in an interview arranged through The Center for Peace Communications on Monday. “We feel defeated and betrayed, in our hearts.”

Ahmed expects an invasion of Kobani any day now by the Syrian National Army, a collection of Islamist militias armed, paid for, and sponsored by Turkey’s powerful intelligence service. When I caught up with her, she had just concluded a round of negotiations with Turkish officials to forestall this invasion—and she was despondent. “All diplomatic talks with Turkey have failed. They have no conditions, they just want to invade,” she said.

A letter sent to Trump—and obtained by The Free Press—on behalf of the Kurds in the North and East Syrian province, pleaded with the president-elect: “From across the border, we can already see Turkish forces amassing, and our civilians live under the constant fear of imminent death and destruction.” It went on to say, “Your decisive leadership can stop this invasion and preserve the dignity and safety of those who have stood as steadfast allies.”

TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Hezbollah; Iran; Iraq; Lebanon; News/Current Events; Syria
KEYWORDS: armenia; assad; assadworshipersonfr; azerbaijan; hezbollah; iran; iraq; kurdistan; kurds; lebanon; nagornokarabakh; syria

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To: EnderWiggin1970

We wouldn’t have to do jack, if the EUnuchs demonstrated the same kind of commitment to a real persecuted stateless nation (the Kurds), as they do to a fake one (the Philistinians).

2 posted on 12/19/2024 10:05:26 AM PST by rfp1234 (E Porcibus Unum)

To: EnderWiggin1970

We are the worst allies in history. We almost always stab our friends in the back.

To: EnderWiggin1970

Old Kurdish saying: “The Kurds have no friends but the mountains.”

4 posted on 12/19/2024 10:09:42 AM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)

To: EnderWiggin1970

Syria once had 2 million Christians, as well as a small but active Jewish community. At least they were protected by the Assads.

There are probably less than 250K Christians remaining.

They won’t last long under Turkey and the CIA’s Islamist friends.

Although Bush-Obama are not solely responsible for their destruction/massacre, no one is even talking about their destruction.

5 posted on 12/19/2024 10:10:16 AM PST by PGR88

To: EnderWiggin1970

The article’s title is confused (if not wrong), and not what the article text says. The actual article says the US was aware that the Turkish supported jihadists, HTS (ex-Al Queda) was planning to attack Assad, and warned RCA, also knowns as Syrian Free Army (SFA), the US backed group in the north east. RCA/SFA did not participate in the overthrow of Assad.

SFA has some Kurds, but there is another Kurdish army, the SDF which is more like a radical communist terrorist group associated with the PKK which is fighting for Kurds inside Turkey.

It is a mess.

6 posted on 12/19/2024 10:17:00 AM PST by Wayne07

To: EnderWiggin1970

Too bad about the Kurds.

Nothing to do with us, though. For us to “abandon” the Kurds we would have to owe them a duty of protection or care, and we just don’t. Sucks to be a hill tribe member in Burma, too, and God knows what else.

Our wars for the foreseeable future are here.

7 posted on 12/19/2024 10:20:48 AM PST by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et de phrases)

To: EnderWiggin1970

Israel claimed they were going to help the Kurds..

8 posted on 12/19/2024 10:27:26 AM PST by roving (Deplorable MAGA Garbage )

To: EnderWiggin1970

Abandon the Kurds? Turkey is COUNTING ON IT.

9 posted on 12/19/2024 10:29:51 AM PST by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX)

To: EnderWiggin1970

The Kurds, etc., are not our problem.

10 posted on 12/19/2024 10:30:48 AM PST by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and don't wish to smile.)

To: EnderWiggin1970

One thing I can guaranty is that many of the very same people saying we have no business in Syria will decry our “abandonment” of the Kurds in Syria.

11 posted on 12/19/2024 10:36:38 AM PST by ETCM (“There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.” — Ronald Reagan)

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