Trump's claim is not just ludicrous but self-indicting, writes EricLevitz
“There are very awful terrorists on both sides.” Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images Donald Trump would like you to know that the Kurdish forces his own administration paid to fight ISIS were actually “more of a terrorist threat, in many ways, than ISIS” all along.
“Our soldiers are not in harm’s way — as they shouldn’t be — as two countries fight over land that has nothing to do with us,” he continued. “And the Kurds are much safer right now.” Here, the president is within a 500-mile radius of a point. Much U.S. coverage of the present conflict has elided the fact that Turkey’s security concerns aren’t baseless. The Kurdistan Workers’ Party has been waging a violent separatist insurrection inside Turkey for decades. The PKK has targeted civilians, and the U.S. government has long considered it a terrorist organization. And the Kurdish militants we partnered with in Syria have deep ties to the PKK.
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