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.


2016-10-27 00:00:00

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