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It's Tuesday, October 8th, 2019, from Slated's Digest, I'm Mike Pasca.

Donald Trump has cut a deal with Turkey, which could lead to the slaughter of Kurdish fighters, or just Kurdish non-fighters.

It was a horrible decision. It was made rather impulsively by all accounts.

It's the hallmarks of me for a process, but in a way, it is the one norm of the presidency that Donald Trump has upheld.

I said it before, I'll say it again.

Selling out the Kurds is what the US does, and not just the US, pretty much the world.

I know all of this because in 2003, Slate ran what became an ongoing feature called Kurd, sell out watch.

The history of the Kurds getting sold out or screwed was laid out by the author Tim Noah.

For the Kurds, getting screwed is a tradition. Great Britain, France, and Italy screwed the Kurds in 1920.

When the Treaty of Sivra divided up the Ottoman Empire, without making a firm commitment to create a Kurdish state,

Turkey screwed the Kurds in 1923 by putting down a Kurdish rebellion.

Iran screwed the Kurds in 47, 75, and 79 when Ayatollah Khomeini cracked down on an autonomous Kurdish enclave.

Iraq screwed the Kurds in 1970, and 74, and 91, and of course by gassing the town of Halabja in 1988.

Now, when Tim was riding the Kurds, sell out watch. It was 2003.

What happened was the US had just agreed to give Turkey free reign over Kurdish regions and not allow Kurds to have their own country.

Now, the Kurds would wind up establishing Kurdistan, which is pretty much the most functional part of Iraq.

It has the oil. It's a good part of Iraq, but it's still part of Iraq. You may have noticed me saying.

Also, in 2007, the US pretty much allowed Turkey to carry out a bombing campaign against Iraqi Kurds inside Iraq.

By the way, that was the biggest attack on Iraq since the US invasion in 2003, which occasioned the Kurds sell out watch.

Now, President Trump says Turkey won't do the same. They won't attack the Kurds because of him.

Because he tweeted, if Turkey does anything that I, in my great and unmatched wisdom, consider to be off limits, I will totally destroy and obliterate the economy of Turkey I've done it before.

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