It is sad that we did not stand by the Kurds

[question everything]

(not sure if discussed here)..

They have been a brave fighters against ISIS and won and now we side with the Iraqis to benefit from them.

Has any knowledgeable person talked about it?

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Turkey and the Oil lobby.

[comradebillyboy]

2. The Kurds got a lot of glowing press but in Iraq the Iranians

played a much bigger role in smashing ISIS.

[question everything]

3. Perhaps. But during the first years of the war in Iraq, the common wisdom

such as it was, concluded that shoving three people together: Sunni, Shia and Kurds was an ongoing disaster.

[comradebillyboy]

5. Iraq and Syria are still being adversely affected by the errors of World War 1

and the breakup of the Ottoman Empire (think the Sykes–Picot Agreement). In the cynical view the Kurds have been helpful but they are not nearly important enough to piss off our very strategically located ally Turkey and the Shia majority of of Iraq.

[JonLP24]

4. I agree