How does the US government spell "Kurd"?

[flotsam]

H-M-O-N-G. And we should all be ashamed.

[uppityperson]

1. What?

[LeftInTX]

2. Context?

[WhiskeyGrinder]

3. Do what now?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. what?

[haele]

5. Back to the future, I imagine

Look up what happened to the Hmong when we left Vietnam.
We're letting Turkey decimate the Kurds, who have been our allies not only in GWII, but stood with us against ISIS over the past decade and a half.

Haele

[flotsam]

6. I'm saying the US Government has a history

of backing indigenous tribes with arms and military support when it is convenient and then leaving them to be slaughtered by vicious regimes once we either reached or abandoned our strategic aims.

[machI]

7. Trump would spell it $h!+h0l3

[Kaleva]

8. The people in question are the so-called Afrin Kurds who we didn't align with.

The Kurds are made up of many factions and often compete against each other. Some Kurds fought with ISIS.

[flotsam]

9. That's not what I'm reading...

On Monday, there were Turkish reports and other media reports that ground troops had advanced nearly five miles into the Kurdish-held Afrin region and had captured several villages. It was the fourth day of Ankara's military operation to root out the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), a militia whose members helped the U.S. coalition defeat ISIS in Syria.

U.S. officials reportedly tried to talk Turkey out of launching the military operation but to no avail. Experts say Turkey also appears to have coordinated the offensive with Russia, which backs the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad.

"Turkey is coordinating with Russia," said Michael Rubin, a former Pentagon official and now resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank. "The basic problem isn't Turkey's move into Syria; it's Turkey's pivot away from NATO."

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/22/turkey-could-lose-in-its-attack-on-us-backed-syrian-kurds-says-expert.html

[SharonClark]

10. Glad you explained why you posted in the first place.

[flotsam]

11. Well, we hosed the Hmong and the Montagnards

I admire the Kurds and would like to see my country reward their support. I don't expect that but I'd like it...

[Kaleva]

14. Here is some more info.

"Pentagon spokesman Major Adrian Rankine-Galloway told Anadolu the US-led coalition wasn't involved with the YPG in the Afrin area.
WATCH: Syria - Kurdish civilians fear threat of Turkey offensive (2:09)

"We don't consider them as part of our 'Defeat ISIS' operations, which is what we are doing there and we do not support them. We are not involved with them at all," Rankine-Galloway told the news agency."

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/01/military-support-kurdish-ypg-afrin-180116202955100.html

[Ken Burch]

13. Here's some background

http://www.pbs.org/splithorn/story1.html

Basically, the U.S. used the Hmong during the wars, then left most of them to be persecuted and to be sent to various forms of exile and internment.