https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/13/world/middleeast/kurds-syria-turkey-trump.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes&fbclid=IwAR2DOS44oGxRfqeLQQFLHvQqPSeQZGwfmIBwgIqyzAeXvBsmxn4sdsZbDS8
"But now, with the White House revoking protection for these Kurdish fighters, some of the Special Forces officers who battled alongside the Kurds say they feel deep remorse at orders to abandon their allies. “They trusted us and we broke that trust,” one Army officer who has worked alongside the Kurds in northern Syria said last week in a telephone interview. “It’s a stain on the American conscience.” “I’m ashamed,” said another officer who had also served in northern Syria. Both officers spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid reprisals from their chains of command. And the response from the Kurds themselves was just as stark. “The worst thing in military logic and comrades in the trench is betrayal,” said Shervan Darwish, an official allied with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces."
