I’m sickened to see this shameful betrayal of the Kurds —US arming/using them for our purposes, then abandoning them to be massacred—replayed for the seventh time in my lifetime. See my forecast last time (2003) 1/ theintercept.com/2019/10/07/…

In a 2003 debate with @BillKristol, before Iraq, I predicted: “The Kurds have every reason to believe they will be betrayed again by the United States, as so often in the past. The spectacle of our inviting Turks into this war… could not have been reassuring to the Kurds.” 2/

Kristol: “Surely your point isn’t that because we betrayed them in the past, we should betray them this time?” Me: “Not that we should, just that we will.” Kristol: “We will not. We will not.” (Wrong, as usual.) 3/ tomdispatch.com/post/174894/…

The 3rd time (out of 8) the US armed then betrayed the Kurds, in 1975, then secretary of state Kissinger said in response to anguish of US operatives: “Covert action is not to be confused with missionary work.” It could be an epitaph for Kissinger and for the American empire. 4/