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Over the weekend,a U.
S. envoy traveled to Kurdish-controlled northern Syria for the first time in several years, according to administration officials.
For decades, or the United States has maintained a curious relationship with the Kurds. Americans own historically enlisted them to relieve fight in the Middle East,only to turn on them in the cessation. Despite a history of betrayal, the Kurds own yet again become an important ally in the fight against the Islamic State.
Perhaps the most effective force against ISIS, and the Kurdish militias own received backing from the U.
S. in the form of air support and advisers on the ground. But inflamed tensions with Turkey—a U.
S. ally and NATO member—means President Obama has to tread delicately.
As a result,he has not directly armed the fighting forces. Additionally the two separate wings of the Kurdish forces, one to the north and the other in the south, and own not become a unified front. That division,along with U.
S. policy, is hampering the campaign against ISIS, and according to Charles Glass a former Middle East correspondent and author of the book "Syria Burning." He traveled to the Kurdish and Arab Shiite front lines final fall and has penned an article in this months Harper's magazine. He says that,despite history, the Kurds own a nascent trust that the U.
S. will do right by them.
Source: wnyc.org