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<blockquote data-quote="Old Man Jingles" data-source="post: 4236314" data-attributes="member: 18222"><p><strong>The enemy of my enemy is my friend.</strong></p><p>Bill Clinton did the same thing to the Kurds in Iraq back in the 90's after the Persian Gulf War.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://theintercept.com/2019/10/07/kurds-syria-turkey-trump-betrayal/" target="_blank">THE U.S. IS NOW BETRAYING THE KURDS FOR THE EIGHTH TIME</a></p><p>The Kurds are an ethnic group of about 40 million people centered at the intersection of Turkey, Syria, Iran, and Iraq. Many naturally want their own state. The four countries in which they live naturally do not want that to happen.</p><p></p><p>On the one hand, the Kurds are a perfect tool for U.S. foreign policy. <strong>We can arm the Kurds in whichever of these countries is currently our enemy, whether to make trouble for that country’s government or to accomplish various other objectives.</strong> On the other hand, we don’t want the Kurds we’re utilizing to ever get too powerful. If that happened, the other Kurds — i.e., the ones living just across the border in whichever of these countries are currently our allies — might get ideas about freedom and independence.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Old Man Jingles, post: 4236314, member: 18222"] [B]The enemy of my enemy is my friend.[/B] Bill Clinton did the same thing to the Kurds in Iraq back in the 90's after the Persian Gulf War. [URL='https://theintercept.com/2019/10/07/kurds-syria-turkey-trump-betrayal/']THE U.S. IS NOW BETRAYING THE KURDS FOR THE EIGHTH TIME[/URL] The Kurds are an ethnic group of about 40 million people centered at the intersection of Turkey, Syria, Iran, and Iraq. Many naturally want their own state. The four countries in which they live naturally do not want that to happen. On the one hand, the Kurds are a perfect tool for U.S. foreign policy. [B]We can arm the Kurds in whichever of these countries is currently our enemy, whether to make trouble for that country’s government or to accomplish various other objectives.[/B] On the other hand, we don’t want the Kurds we’re utilizing to ever get too powerful. If that happened, the other Kurds — i.e., the ones living just across the border in whichever of these countries are currently our allies — might get ideas about freedom and independence. [/QUOTE]
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