{"id":11510,"date":"2019-01-08T13:28:02","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T17:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=11510"},"modified":"2019-01-08T13:32:57","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T17:32:57","slug":"we-dont-owe-syrias-kurds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/we-dont-owe-syrias-kurds\/","title":{"rendered":"We Don\u2019t Owe Syria\u2019s Kurds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> <strong>America should not be in the business of creating another de facto Kurdish state. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/RTS1H6XF-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11511\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/RTS1H6XF-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/RTS1H6XF-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/RTS1H6XF-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/RTS1H6XF.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption> <br><em>Image: Reuter <\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>The National Interest<\/strong>, by <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalinterest.org\/profile\/christian-whiton\">Christian Whiton<\/a> &#8212; 1\/2\/2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Panicked  neoconservatives seeking to keep America at war in Syria think they\u2019ve  found an effective talking point: \u201cWe cannot abandon the Kurds!\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Using  his trademark oversimplification, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), told  CNN, \u201cIf we leave now, the Kurds are going to get slaughtered.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Surely  the ghosts of Mark Sykes and Fran\u00e7ois Georges-Picot smile on Graham and  his unpopular but vocal cadre of Beltway interventionists. Those two  men, authors of the Sykes-Picot agreement that secretly planned the  carving up of the Middle East by imperialist British and French forces  upon the conclusion of World War I, might sympathize with the vanity of  those who think they can advantageously remake the region.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the rest of us, skepticism is warranted. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The  neocons\u2019 implication is that having worked at times with Kurds in Syria  to defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), we must now  support or perhaps even guarantee their own security against the  numerous warring parties that remain, especially government forces led  by Bashar al-Assad and neighboring Turkey, which hates both Assad and  the Kurds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>View the complete article including image and links at:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalinterest.org\/feature\/we-don%E2%80%99t-owe-syria%E2%80%99s-kurds-40392\">https:\/\/nationalinterest.org\/feature\/we-don%E2%80%99t-owe-syria%E2%80%99s-kurds-40392<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America should not be in the business of creating another de facto Kurdish state. The National Interest, by Christian Whiton &#8212; 1\/2\/2019 Excerpt: Panicked neoconservatives seeking to keep America at war in Syria think they\u2019ve found an effective talking point: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/we-dont-owe-syrias-kurds\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11510"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11513,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11510\/revisions\/11513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}