10-08-2019, 11:50 AM
(10-07-2019, 06:50 PM)Dill Wrote:
Do you think the abandonment of the Kurds was/is unavoidable?
Also, a general question for anyone--how is this abandonment, if it goes forward, likely to affect foreign policy in the future? E.g., how might it affect future attempts to develop proxies and alliances in world hot spots?
Related red cap exercise: how might Putin, China or Iran view the US withdrawal from Syria? Strengthening or weakening the US?
Do these questions matter at all to people who just want the US to disentangle itself entirely from the Middle East and/or the Far EAst?
I don't have answers for all of this.
My first rule of justifying any US intervention in foreign affairs is to be part of a coalition. And creating a coalition that includes parties who are enemies with each other is never going to end well.
