“What is he talking about? … Did he expect the Kurds would be on Omaha Beach?” the ABC News host asked
Mnuchin tried to make sense of the president’s nonsense by saying that people who are being critical of Trump’s decision are attempting to push the notion that the Kurds are a longtime ally of the US. “Everybody is saying we are abandoning the Kurds, like the Kurds are these long-standing allies,” Mnuchin said.
The assertion by the president and Mnunchin that the Kurds are not long-standing allies of the US is absurd. As Bilal Wahab, a fellow at The Washington Institute, told, “Anecdotally, there were Kurdish soldiers who fought the Nazis in Germany alongside the British army, for example.” Wahab also noted that the Kurds and US have worked together since the early 1970s. “You can also go all the way back to 1971, 1974, where the Kurdish Peshmerga in Iraq were fighting Saddam Hussein’s regime, and the United States was arming them and supporting them in order to dissuade Saddam Hussein from falling into the Soviet orbit at the time,” Wahab said. “But of course, when Saddam Hussein finally came through, that support was lifted.
But Mnuchin, never one to let history or facts get in his way, went on to say that the US focus was not about defending land for the Kurds, but instead about defeating ISIS. But, this is also problematic since the results of the president’s decision have
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