I don't know a lot about it, can someone school me? What's the argument for pulling the troops out if it left their allies in the Kurds wide open like that?
I assume it's a fucked if you do, fucked if you don't type of thing, but I just don't know... Maybe there's some military pedes here that can explain? Wouldn't the military be really angry with Trump over something like this?
I just don't feel like I'm getting the counter-point to the argument
PS: Not concern trolling, just trying to understand better
The US doesn't have any obligation to support the tribalist Kurds in making war on their perennial adversaries around the Middle East. Just because US and Kurdish interests happened to coincide (very briefly) in the Iraq war, doesn't make them US "allies".
An alliance with the Kurdish communist party (that acts in the role of an unofficial government for the Kurds) would be a catastrophe for the US, because the Kurds would quickly withdraw to a safe distance and allow their US military proxy to fight for them.
If this sounds like we've heard this scenario before, and is the recipe for disaster, that's because it is! That's exactly what happened to US forces in Vietnam: the S.V.A. turned the prosecution of the war over to US troops, while they stood on the sidelines.
this is a non-story. large part of the Kurds decided to make peace with Syria and join the alliance that has formed to crush jihadis and prevent Turkey from turning into Ottoman Empire 2.0
USA troops should never have been there in the first place, they were placed there by Clinton/Obama to help the arms and money flow to terrorists to destabilize the entire region. It makes no sense to continue the worst mistakes of the past administration.
We have to have troops in the middle east because otherwise we leave the kurds ( a group we aligned ourselves with to defeat isis, which we did) to be genocided by Turkey. Its warhawks excuse to keep us in other countries, but we left the kurds already (except for some troops to hold oil reserves) qnd to my knowledge they haven't been genocided yet.