There is no way Turkey, as a NATO member would have attacked while US troops were stationed there and the US was giving clear security assurances. Indeed Turkey and Greece have serious disputes over territory but since Cyprus invasion Turkey is not using force against them due to NATO pressure.
And the proof is in the pudding, Turkey did not attack while the US was there, it attacked days after Trump's disgraceful withdrawal.
I never said or implied Turkey would attack US troops if we tried to guarantee or assure the Kurds they would have their own nation which is what they are after, and that frightens and angers Turkey.
So that's a red herring from you...
No. Actually, these Syrian Kurds are viewed as terrorists by NATO ally Turkey, and Turkey announced that they would not be allowed within a particular range of their border, which at the time contained both Kurds and 50 US advisors. The Kurds were not being clear about whether they would withdraw to outside the buffer zone Turkey was insisting on, and since the original mission of these 50 US advisors had been fulfilled, Trump moved them, which, the Left and the Anti-Trumpers screamed was "a sell out of the Kurds". Now personally I have no use for the leader of Turkey and I have great sympathy for the Kurds, but, these same bastards that claim Trump should have left these 50 advisors there, would also scream the loudest if they got killed, or even scream louder if they started shooting at Turkish forces.
We did not "sell out the Kurds."
About 500 U.S. troops remain in Syria. They protect the Kurds, secure the Kurd's oil and continue stamping out ISIS sleeper cells.
The Syrian regime now occupies more of it's former country, with Russian help and wants to recover control of the rest of it, which includes this land that the Kurds now occupy.
So now, in addition to the myriad dangers already present, U.S. patrols increasingly encounter regime militias and Russian convoys. The potential for conflict is high, difficult to navigate and so far, Trump has navigated about as well as could be hoped for.
The U.S. troops are typically optimistic are focused on their mission.
Protecting the Kurd's oil is a Trump stated objective. It deprives hostile actors -- Russia, Turkey, Syria and of course ISIS -- of an important resource, and it gives Kurds the means to provide for themselves in the hopes that a future political solution is reached.
Turkey has to be considered, the Syrian regime is hungry to retake more of it's former territory and the Russians back them. It's a first rate farce that the warmongering clowns think it's in our national interest to put our troops in the middle two front war for a Kurdish homeland in Syria. There are Kurds in Iran as well, so it could probably become a 3 front war, very quickly.
These same rotten bastards would immediately become anti- Trump war protestors as soon as the body bags started coming in. It's a tough position, the Kurds have my sympathy, but, this is the limit of what we can do for them at the moment. But, if anyone here wants to put their own lives on the line, or the lives of their sons or daughters, I'm sure Kurds would welcome the help. They should probably fly to Turkey and try to infiltrate from there.
Or, they should petition their Congressperson to submit a bill authorizing Trump to use force to do whatever it is that they would like to see done.
I'm no fan of Turkey, I wish Istanbul was still Constantinople, but, we operate in the real world, and Turkey occupies key real estate important for containing Russia.