After Trump’s Tactical Strike on Syria, He Should Make a Strategic Play by Recognizing Kurdistan

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

President Donald Trump responded forcefully yesterday to the Syrian government’s murderous use of sarin nerve gas against children and other civilians. Fifty-nine U.S. cruise missiles reportedly devastated the air base from which the attack was launched. 

Having punished Syria’s despot for using chemical weapons he is not supposed to have, the question is: What’s the next step? 

The United States should not become embroiled in a horrific civil war in which the principal protagonists – Assad, Russia and Iran on the one side and their Sharia-supremacist opponents tied to the Islamic State, al Qaeda, the Muslim Brotherhood and Turkey’s President Erdogan – are all hostile to us.

Instead, President Trump should take an initiative that is in our interest, one that would punish these bad actors and strengthen our friends: Recognize a state for the largest population in the Middle East without one – the pro-American Kurds.

This is Frank Gaffney.