Barack Obama Has Betrayed the Kurds

A tragic error: The U.S. president is betraying the brave Kurds in return for help from the Turks in the fight against the Islamic State. Under Donald Trump, things would not be any better.

In his masterpiece, “The Rebellion of the Masses,” the famous Spanish philosopher and essayist José Ortega y Gasset talks about the phenomenon of the downfall of great nations’ historic standing in certain eras due to unapproachable leaders. Should someone like Donald Trump really succeed Obama and move into the White House, the United States would expedite by about 12 years the demise of its superpower qualities, which are very important and crucial for the free world.

Presidents of the caliber of Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush were superseded by the unsteady figure of Barack Obama, and could be followed by the very controversial real estate tycoon Trump. “The Donald,” as his dazzling Czech wife, Ivana, called him in the newspapers’ gossip columns and in her ongoing TV chitchat conducted in her “Bohemian” English, has been in the limelight since the 1980s.

Even then, Trump was enthusiastically making his coarse ideas on God and the world known everywhere. I once had breakfast with him at the Plaza Hotel in New York where to my astonishment, he declared his world view using depressing slogans and with grotesque arrogance.

Dictator Erdogan and His Scheming

During her candidacy, new aspects of Hillary Clinton’s term as secretary of state under Obama are scrutinized on a near daily basis. Adviser Sidney Blumenthal, someone I know personally, behaves like a plaything in Hillary’s dispute with the other members of the Obama team.

The man in the White House’s last tragic error was his betrayal of the brave Kurds in return for help from the Turks in the fight against the Islamic State group. The noble Turkish people, whose country was the cornerstone of the free world under the great Mustafa Atatürk’s banner, sadly find themselves in a political straight-jacket under their dictator, Recep Erdogan. They have to endure his devious scheming and must contribute to the further aggravation and entrapment of the grim situation in the Middle East.