Obama neither wants to help nor wants to win

Obama abandons Syrian Kurds to slaughter

by Michael Rubin

Mention Henry Kissinger to most Kurds and the reaction will range from a grimace to a colorful string of expletives. The reason is that in 1975, Kissinger effectively pulled the rug out from the Kurdish uprising against Saddam Hussein and left the exposed to slaughter. Mention Ronald Reagan and the reactions are hardly better. It was Reagan, after all, who turned a blind eye to Saddam Hussein’s use chemical weapons against the Kurds.

Well, it seems that Obama wants to share the Kissinger and Reagan’s legacy of throwing Kurds under the bus. It has been just over a week since President Obama spoke about the need to confront the Islamic State (ISIL), wherever it might be. He declared that in Syria “we must strengthen the opposition as the best counterweight to extremists like ISIL, while pursuing the political solution necessary to solve Syria’s crisis once and for all.”

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