The Kurdish betrayal in October 2019 is not unlike the Munich Agreement in September 1938. Eighty years ago, Britain, Italy and France naively and cowardly assumed that sacrificing Czechoslovakia and appeasing Hitler would prevent the war. Neville Chamberlain declared ‘Peace for our time’ after Germany, Britain, France and Italy reached a settlement allowing Nazi Germany to annex parts of Czechoslovakia.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/from-the-archive-blog/2018/sep/21/munich-chamberlain-hitler-appeasement-1938
One has to wonder whether Erdogan simply told Trump - "We are going in, you'd better get your boys out" or whether Trump got his marching orders directly from Kremlin. Either way, enabling the Turkish invasion can't be blamed solely at USA, the EU is also complicit in this abhorrent massacre. The decision to throw the Kurds under the bus was not a good one, and the prognosis can't be good for Kurdistan, Turkey and the rest of the world.
Les, The comparison is false. First, the Kurds don't even have a country so they're not Czechoslovakia. Taking advantage of the Syrian war, the Kurds had expanded their territory and have made incursions into Turkey, The Turks are our formal ally in NATO as you in Canada are. ISIS and Iran aren't Germany. Czechoslovakia and Germany were in the heart of Europe. These were next door neighbors to Britain and France and presented an immediate existential threat to the rest of Europe. Syria, the Kurds, Turkey, and the rest of these countries are 6000 miles away from America and half that distance from Europe, although Europe is more affected by the Middle East then we are. Yet, I don't see Western Europe sending their armies over there to help the Kurds. As usual, let those dumb Americans do the fighting. The rest of the world will go about their regular business making money and sipping tea.
Interestingly, I think many Americans are at the same point we were at right before WWII. Because of WWI, America was tired of war and didn't want to get involved in that Second War
over there. It took Pearl Harbor and Germany's declaration of war against the US. Only then did America declare war on Germany and get us involved officially in the war in Europe. Well, Americans have had it after all the waring in the Middle East since 9-11. We tired. We're broke. We don't want to be there. Let someone else pick up the banner. Trump is just officiating what Americans really want. We want to go home. The world will have to go on there without us.