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The #Kurds are becoming a central focus in the discussion about Trump's #SyriaWithdrawal.

Context is crucial to be effective advocates. Let's start w/some history.

🔹Who are Kurds?
🔹What is our history w/Kurds?
🔹Why is abandoning Kurds a mistake?

Graphics h/t @frontera_julie
1/ The Kurds are an indigenous group spread across Syria, Iraq, Iran & Turkey.

Many aspire to an independent Kurdistan which is opposed by the four countries.

Nonetheless, Kurds have developed close alliances w/the U.S. & others against terrorism. bbc.com/news/world-mid…
2/ The Kurds have been the U.S.-led forces' most reliable local ally against al Qaeda, ISIS and, before he was toppled, Saddam Hussein.
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Ok! Time for a social media cocktail party. Topic: #SyriaWithdrawal . Which one of you best and brightest who’ve been following this shite show since 2009 can tell me which DEEPLY involved State is NOT mentioned in article?
Winner gets first toast.
Really we must applaud @realDonaldTrump, raise your glasses. The neocons are losing. McCain lost. Assad stands. #Syria remains, his. We went in not invited. We inserted ourselves into a proxy war, unprovoked. Why?Everyone say it at once now, “To fight over pipelines”.
If we felt compelled to get involved in others civil wars for humanitarian purposes, to police Countries that aren’t ours so everyone plays nice- then why aren’t we in Africa’s conflicts? Why aren’t we battling for the English settlers getting murdered by S. Africans? #Syria
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