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Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-the-middle-east-knows-not-to-trust-the-united-states/2016/10/25/09c00c52-9afa-11e6-b3c9-f662adaa0048_story.html?utm_term=.c35c954e38fe

People in the Middle East Have Learned to Be Wary of American Promises

(Washington Post) David Ignatius - When the U.S. fights its wars in the Middle East, it has a nasty habit of recruiting local forces as proxies and then jettisoning them when the going gets tough or regional politics intervene. I fear this is happening again in Syria with the Kurdish militia group YPG, which has been America's best ally against the Islamic State.

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