"We hold our hearts so they don't break"

The slaughter of the Kurdish fighters has greatly escalated.                                             ........................... "Our brave Kurdish soldiers, men and women, are now dying every day in greater and greater numbers..... "The bombs from Turkish and Syrian fighter planes rain down on us every day now. The American president abandoned us to die,, all without warning.            We learned of our abandonment by the president's tweet." 
Military commanders, both US and Kurdish..were given no pre-warning...not even the Pentagon. The Joint Chiefs of Staff learned of the 'ordered withdrawal' on the morning news - a 4 AM 'tweet' by the president.

  Left: Late October, 2019.Kurdish soldiers hold funeral, pay last respects for a beloved Kurdish army colonel.   

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"My father was buried without a funeral, without people saying goodbye.” People were too frightened,” Elyas says. “It was too dangerous. When people gather, that’s when the bombs come, sometimes in just minutes." Abdulrahman Khalil Elyas’s father died in Rojava last week. Because of the bombardment of the Kurdish-controlled north-east region of Syria, he was hastily buried without a funeral. 

This past August: ??? Did 'this' influence Trump to 'suddenly' decide to pull our troops out of Syria (he was facing a business loss and loss of prestige):...
      REVENGE: Turkey's Erdoğan told..... 'SEIZE Trump Towers Istanbul'... in retaliation to sanctions

President Trump. October 16, 2019:"My strategy was brilliant." Trump hailed his decision to withdraw US troops in Syria, paving the way for a devastating Turkish army offensive, as 'strategically brilliant', declaring that the Kurds he abandoned were 'much safer now' - "not angels." 11,000 Kurdish soldiers have died fighting the Turkish military in the last decade. The Kurds have been the US 'surrogate army' in that violent region for over ten years, holding the Turks and the Russians at bay.

Kurdish woman fighter: "We have no choice but to fight to the last. We have no other place to go. I am resigned to whatever comes now.                                                                                    The Kurds have been the US's surrogate army for over a decade - holding the Russian-friendly Turkish government at bay. Trump has now joined Russian and Turkey as 'an ally'...Trump - abandoning even our own US soldiers - from the previous commitment to protect and fight alongside the Kurds.
                                                                                                                    

700 ISIS prisoners escaped during two days of bombings. Many are making their way to Europe, others into northern Iraq. Trump's 'brilliant strategy' has resulted in turning over vast territory back to Turkey and Russian control....Fifteen years of US troop involvement, providing stability in the mid-east - gone with a Trump tweet - leaving the Kurds to die by  Russian, Turkish hands.                                                 

                                                                *****

My Question to president Trump: "What kind of country have you turned us into, president Trump,?  A country where American honor and American guarantees to US Allies - mean nothing?

Trump's Erratic Foreign Policy elevates Russia, elates Putin. Trump now clearly sees himself as a strongman like Putin, indifferent to our laws, totally indifferent to our US Constitution.....The frightening aspect of it: 36% of Americans approve...the 'Trump Base'.. 

"Here's to you Donald Trump...my very good friend.....Friend of Russia."