BAGHDAD - Iraqi Kurdish President Nechirvan Barzani said on Monday that the United States pulling out of Syria was “undesirable” but that the semi-autonomous region appreciated the U.S. historical role in protecting it.
The statement underscored the cautious reaction from Iraqi Kurdish leaders who did not condemn neighboring Turkey for an assault on northeastern Syria that has sent thousands of Kurds fleeing. Iraqi Kurdistan relies on Turkish pipelines to export oil and the countries have close political ties. U.S. President Donald Trump’s abrupt decision earlier this month to withdraw troops from northern Syria has been criticized in Washington and elsewhere as a betrayal of loyal Kurdish allies who had fought for years alongside U.S. troops against Islamic State.
Outraged that their Syrian kin were betrayed by another U.S. policy decision, protesters in Iraqi Kurdish cities burned Turkish flags last week and some said that America had betrayed the Kurds yet again.
Sure, that's why they were throwing tomatoes and cursing at the soldiers. Actually, I bet they do appreciate the soldiers. It's Trump they wish they could curse and throw tomatoes at.
US and Israeli puppets !
Thank you Sir, because we can’t stay there forever.
Of course.
Iraqi Kurds will be abandoned next.
president of what?
Translation: “Please don’t abandon us, too, assholes!”
Last time we left the Iraqi Kurds and Sadaam slaughtered them with chemical weapons. Now this President is doing it to Syrian Kurds.
What else are they supposed to say? U.S forces are the only thing keeping Iraqi forces from taking Iraqi Kurdistan.
بياع كلام
That’s why they were throwing rotten fruit and rocks at our vehicles
Iraqi, Turkish and Syrian Kurd joint-force would be quite a formidable ground force. But they lack airpower and air defenses and realDonaldTrump refused to allow them to defend themselves from Syrian barrel bombs and Turkish US-made planes.
Why is everyone blaming Trump when it was Putin who ordered the US to pull out?
The Kurds know that our soldiers are persons of honor, unlike the thug that pretends to be a C-in-C.
Yeah.. I appreciate my friends when they start a bar fight, then leave me to get ass kicked.
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