"You Are Leaving Us To Be Slaughtered"

      Up until a week ago the people in the towns in Northeastern Syria along the Turkish border were living their day-to-day lives. Going to work. Going to school.

   Going shopping. Going out to eat. Playing or watching sports events. Meeting friends for coffee or tea. Visiting relatives. Raising families. Working around the house or garden. Planning their plans for the  day or for the upcoming week, month, or year.
       But by the end of that day one week ago everything had changed for the people of Northeastern Syria.  Because it was one week ago today that Donald Trump, who has many millions of dollars worth of financial interests in Turkey,

...hung up on a phone call with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan,

...and immediately, impulsively, called for the withdraw of the American troops that had been overseeing the "Peace Corridor" that was being set up between Turkey and Kurdish Syria.
      Three days later Turkish rockets, tanks, and artillery began attacking  the Northeastern Syrian cities and towns along the Turkish border.

     That was four days ago. And in those four days since Turkey invaded Kurdish Syria:
      - 100,000 Syrian civilians have been displaced as they flee south, away from the border.
       - 179 men, women, and children have been killed or injured.

    - Turkish artillery fired on an outpost of American troops stationed outside the conflict zone to the west of Kurdish Syria. Deliberately, U.S. military officials are convinced.
      - The Kurdish Syrian Defense Forces who brought down ISIS in Syria and now administer the detention camps for captured ISIS fighters have had to cut back on personnel to guard the camps, as all troops are now needed for defense against the invading Turks. Subsequently almost 1,000 captured ISIS members  have escaped the camps in the past four days. There has since been two car bomb explosions in Syria, for which ISIS has claimed responsibility.
      - Some of the detention camps where captured ISIS members are held are now at risk of falling under ISIS control. 
​           Yesterday General Mazloum Kobani Abdi, leader of the Syrian Defense Forces, implored the U.S. to send help to protect the Syrian Kurds.

      "You are leaving us to be slaughtered," General Mazloum told a senior U.S. diplomat.
      This is at heart an an issue of war and peace. Donald Trump pulled back the American troops along the Turkish-Northeastern Syrian border because, he said, he wanted to get our country out of "endless wars." And yet while the United States had 100 troops patrolling the Turkish- Northeastern Syrian border there was peace. Had he left that patrol there would still be peace. But he pulled those troops and now there's war.
        And Trump will not return any  troops or support to defend the Kurds who fought for five years along side Americans and lost 11,000 men and women to defeat ISIS.
        But yesterday Donald Trump ordered 3,000 American troops, two Air Force fighter squadrons,  Patriot antimissile batteries and other air and missile defenses to deploy to Saudi Arabia to protect the Saudi oil fields.   

References:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/12/politics/syrian-kurds-us-turkey-military-operation/index.html

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-impeachment-inquiry/donald-trump-s-longtime-business-connections-turkey-back-spotlight-n1064011

https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/world/turkish-led-troops-invade-strategic-syrian-town/ar-AAIGsGs

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/oct/13/isis-prisoners-escape-syria-detention-camp-after-t/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/militant-women-poised-to-take-control-of-isis-camp-syrian-kurdish-general-says/2019/10/04/72985c18-e5ff-11e9-b0a6-3d03721b85ef_story.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/11/world/middleeast/trump-saudi-arabia-iran-troops.html