President Trump tried to send weapons to the Iranian people through the Kurds and the Kurds just kept them for themselves thus dooming any Iranian uprising against the regime.
You can't trust anyone over there!
We've been told repeatedly that the Kurds were honorable and our friends but when we needed them to step up they screwed us. President Trump promises to punish them.
The plan was for the Kurds to not only give the weapons to the Iranians but to launch an invasion of western Iran to disrupt and distract the government there. The Kurds failed to do either.
That was Trump's plan to overthrow the Mullahs and it has now failed not because it wasn't a good one but because our "friends" are simply dirtbags.
Now the President has no choice but use military power to destroy the infrastructure there. His options are far more limited than they were just a couple of weeks ago.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at April 08, 2026 12:07 AM (YGEcJ)
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The U.S. military, apparently, who have long sung the praises of the Kurds..
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at April 08, 2026 06:44 AM (oflqW)
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Well, even the U.S. military isn't as sharp as it might be. The Kurds are, in the final analysis, a tribal culture, and from the dawn of time a tribal culture is there for one thing: itself. (Another great example of tribalism is our wonderful Minnesota Somalis.) Yes, the Kurds haven't been all that bad but when you examine their behavior recently (and I mean over the last fifty or so years) they still tend to look out for themselves first -- and the above article proves it.
The first time that I'm aware of, where they show up in history, is in Marco Polo's travels to China, and the Kurds attacked and robbed the Polo's caravans, inflicting great damage. I've never fully trusted them since.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at April 10, 2026 12:55 AM (YGEcJ)