The Trump administration had better work fast to rescue our Kurdish allies – who are being attacked on all sides – if anything tangible is to be salvaged from the super-expensive American military involvement in the Middle East during this millennium. If America abandons the Kurds, defeat of the Islamic State will become a dark victory, and America will become a diplomatic laughingstock to friends and foes, particularly Iran.  She will lose the last chance to attain a reliable, long-term foothold in the Syrian-Iraqi theater by having betrayed an ally that has been, is, and promises to continue to be America's most reliable colleague. The American "horse" is less "mighty" than Iran's, for the trove of bin Laden documents (that revealed his secret dealings with Tehran) proved again that Shi'ite Iran has had no compunctions supporting Sunni al-Qaeda. They are all Islamists, threatening Western civilization by continuing to fight...(Read Full Article)