Between the time I write this letter and the time it is published, over 20,000 Kurds will be slaughtered in Syria by ISIL. President Obama claims he wants to “degrade and destroy” this pernicious, evil entity, but he has refused to allow our air force to overfly Syria where ISIL finds safe haven and a population to exploit. Turkey, which shares a border with the Kurdish area of Syria, has fought a long border war with the Syrian Kurdish militia called PKK. The Turks have a massive military presence overlooking this massacre and they seem to be enjoying every minute of it.
The Kurds want an independent country, and there is no question that their claims are more deserving and legitimate than the Palestinians. They Kurds are a separate ethnic group distinct from the all the other people of the Mideast and total over 30 million throughout Iraq, Syria Turkey and Iran in a four border region known as Kurdistan. Unlike the Palestinians, they have a distinct language, culture, DNA, foods, customs – and for the most part they are intelligent, trustworthy people who are not religiously radicalized. They have shown a propensity to embrace Western culture, economics and education. They were our most trusted allies when the USA was in Iraq - and we have totally abandoned them.
Turkey, on the other hand, did not allow US military access to Iraq through Turkey, even though Turkey is a NATO member bordering Iraq. Turkey has refused to join the Obama led coalition against ISIL and in fact has allowed the unfettered flow of ISIL recruits from Turkey to Syria. Turkish smugglers are also the main financiers of ISIL with their unlimited purchases of ISIL oil at $20-$30 a barrel. Even VP Biden admitted this in a speech at Harvard last week. Why does President Obama stand behind Turkey and even provide diplomatic cover? There is only one viable explanation: Turkey is the main benefactor of the Muslim Brotherhood (along with Qatar) and it is well known that POTUS Obama has strongly supported the exiled MB ever since they were thrown out of office in Egypt.
When the history books are written, I have no doubt that the Obama presidency will go down as the biggest failure in US history. It will take decades before the USA will be trusted again. It is ironic that Obama, who stood in Cairo in 2009 and championed human rights to the entire world in the grandest of gestures, is the proud owner of Nobel peace prize dripping with blood.
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