Something bigger is going on, but i do not remember names well enough to put this part of the chess game together.
i do not feel The US was ever allied with the Kurds. They were just useful idiots to some goal.
The best solution to peace is to give everyone a gun and 50 rounds of ammo.
God made man, Colt made them equal.
The next best solution is to remove all our troops from all over the world... but, most of that is really to maintain shipping. So...