All of the "they fought along side of us" stuff really pisses me off.

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5. aside from Congress, need UN (starting w/General Assembly) to act

Congress is likely soon to pass measures countering the DT Administration's naked betrayal of the Kurds -- which is frankly to be expected of someone like Trump

Who knows if Trump (who has demonstrated himself to be 'open to deal' in foreign relations, not only with Ukraine but with Australia, China and others) hasn't cut some kind of personal deal with Erdogan, a like-minded authoritarian?

In addition to Congress, surely there must be SOME countries sympathetic enough to the plight of the Kurds (who have no representation in the General Assembly) to raise this issue now in the GA. A concrete goal could be to have UN peacekeepers maintaining a buffer zone, mainly within northern Syria, to prevent the looming attack on the Kurds.

Of course, Congress and the UN move slowly, more slowly that circumstances require. This is the kind of reason why the mainstream media and the leadership of the Democratic Party should have been much more forceful about the stealing of the '16 election -- not RussiaRussiaRussia but the systematic mass suppression of votes as reported both before and after the election by Greg Palast, and systematically ignored otherwise.

I have been raising this latter issue over & over & over. This (along w/climate catastrophe) is the price we and the world are paying for THAT betrayal