10/11/19
The United States of America, year by year, give out money and troops to allies who need humanitarian aid or war assistance. A close ally of the United States are the Kurds, in Syria. The Kurds are an ethnic group who make up about a 4th of the Middle East. Given the Kurds and the United States together took down a majority of ISIS, you would believe the United States would continue to help out our close ally.
While in the mists of a war for independence from turkey, the Kurds also have tens of thousands of ISIS soldiers captured. After news that some ISIS members had escaped, president trump believed the Kurds were doing this on purpose, so he spoke with the president of Turkey, eventually removing his troops from Syria, within weeks of this withdrawal, the Turkish Army attacked the unstable boarder of Syria, freeing hundreds of radicalized ISIS members. “Kurdish authorities have reported the escape of hundreds of ISIS family members from a camp in northern Syria, and warned that ISIS militants held in prisons could be next to go if fighting with Turkish forces continues to escalate.” (FULL ARTICLE)This fear that Kurds and Americans in Syria could be killed by ISIS members is very scary.
This whole situation is kind of confusing, this quote should help explain ( FULL ARTICLE) “The situation is deeply complicated. Turkey has launched an invasion against Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, who were the primary American ally in Syria against the Islamic State and who control northern Syria. Turkey has been fighting separatist Kurds inside its borders and considers the Syrian Kurds terrorists”. The Islamic state and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces have been in conflict within Syria for some time now. The president of the United States, previously allies with the Kurds, continue to let Kurds die and allow ISIS member to escape. On another note, Trump has business interests in Turkey including a Trump Tower - many critics believe he did was he thought was in his best business interest versus proper American foreign policy that was in best interest of our country. Is this justice? Do we strive to democracy or tyranny? Why are we leading the Kurds to genocide?
