This is the Tom Hartman program.

And greetings my friends, Patriots,

lovers of democracy, truth of justice, believers, and peace, freedom in the American way.

Tom Hartman here with you.

I really want to get into this issue of why is Donald Trump allowing our allies, the Kurds,

to be slaughtered.

But let me start at the beginning.

Back before World War I,

Kurdistan, the Kurds at various times in history

have had their own country, it's Kurdistan.

And it is partly in southern Turkey, partly in northeastern Syria, partly in northwestern Iraq.

So you've got the Kurds basically after the Middle East was

redrawn after World War I. Now the Kurds lost their country, but it's one

people they share a common version of Islam that's not crazed and radicalized like the

Saudis.

They share a common language, Kurdish.

They view themselves as a people and they have aligned themselves with the United States.

Now that's all kind of fine from our point of view when they were useful.

But Erdogan and Turkey does not like the fact that the Kurds in the south of Turkey are saying,

hey, this should be our own country.

And Assad and Syria doesn't like the fact

that the Kurds in Northeastern Syria

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