Comment on There’s no justification for US abandonment of Kurds

Color us, and much of the rest of the world, confused. President Donald Trump last week removed U.S. troops from northern Syria, abandoning our Kurdish allies, clearing the way for Turkey to invade the war-torn country and opening the door to a reemergence of the Islamic State. The president justified the ill-advised withdrawal, which was announced just hours after Trump spoke by phone with Turkish President Recep Tyyip Erdogan, by arguing that Middle Eastern conflicts are so complicated and long-standing that it is futile for the United States to try to solve them.