Ok, but I can only keep asking, why does the US have all those military bases around the world then? And why send extra troops to Saudi Arabia now if you're trying to pull back from being the world's police. Are the princes feeling nervous about something?
To a lot of the world this just looks like another example of the US pretending to be a backer of democracy while backing some of the worst regimes, been going on for decades. I'm not saying you don't have to make deals with the devil for reasons of "realpolitic", but geez the track record ain't that good. Much of what has been said about Middle East politics being a cesspool rings true, but why make it worse?
The Kurds did a lot of proxy fighting against ISIS, imagine how they feel now.
Robert, The Kurds did not do
proxy fighting. It wasn't for us. ISIS was killing Kurds and trying to take their territory. The Kurds were fighting for their land and people. Sure, we both had common interests in killing ISIS. But they weren't doing us any favors. Anymore than the USSR was our friend against the Nazis. That was Trump's point about Normandy. If they fought in Normandy not defending their own territory but helping us nonetheless, that would have been proxy fighting. And we would have owed them more favors.
Of course, the anti Trump media distorts the whole thing fooling everyone about what's going on. Now don't get me wrong. I think it would be nice for the Kurds to have a homeland. And as common soldiers on the battlefield I think we should try to help them. But that homeland currently is territory that occupies parts of Turkey, Syria and Iraq. Are we supposed to get into nation building again and go against these three countries? Hasn't nation building been discredited by you and others. Now suddenly, because Trump wants to get us out of there and stop being involved in the Middle East adventures, suddenly he's a bad guy. It seems the whole thing is about presidential politics than the Kurds.
