The Kurdish people, millions of them, were screwed when Britain and France redrew the map of the Middle East after the World War I defeat of Germany’s ally, the Ottoman Empire, i.e. the empire controlled by the caliphate of today’s Turkey. New national boundaries were drawn to benefit Western Europe’s economic interests, ignoring the ethnicities of the resident populations.
Constantinople (Istanbul), the eastern center of Christianity, fended off attacks by Arab Muslims for centuries until falling to the Ottoman Turks in 1453, after which it became the seat of new Muslim attacks on Europe.
Today, given its history of Muslim aggression, we owe Turkey nothing.
About 11,000 Kurds, however, gave their lives fighting ISIS on our behalf, saving perhaps 11,000 American lives. They have earned their own nation-state in the Middle East, and the U.S. is in a position to make that happen. Instead, we have abandoned a current ally to a former enemy, which is an outrageous betrayal of the only people in the Middle East willing to fight alongside U.S. troops against Muslim aggression and expansionism.
President Trump, you have done much good for our nation under the most trying of circumstances, but this betrayal of our ally is disgraceful.
