been diminished. so too has america s reputation. nishti stayed in kobani. but the self-run kurdish enclave she hoped to build, rozhava, is gone. and so is trust among the kurds. the american allies now left living with the consequences of an american betrayal. [ crying ] i m just wondering what is america doing. they left us to the death. we are dying here. but nobody cares. if you were us, what would you do? my people, the children are getting killed. i don t know what to say. and now people are saying,
the bloodthirsty. al baghdadi silently behind an isis brutality so extreme even al qaeda disowned it leading the groups to split in 2014. months later, the group, to show its fighters, breaking the borders of syria and iraq, the cleric they khraeurd caliphate. they claimed direct lineage from the prophet muhammad, the new caliph. this was the pinnacle of careers of calculation and isis rose fast. and then the attack on an occupation of mows up. the atrocities in mount sinja, the beheadings of western hostagings, the proceeding of kobani. more errors marked by an obscene worship of violence. in all these, he isn t visible.
the spring fell apart, sectarian violence of civil war bag a magnet for the blood thirsty. it led to the extremist groups to split in february 2014. months later the group showing breaking the porders of iraq. with al baghdadi at its helm claiming direct lineage from muhammad. an attack on an occupation of mosul. the atrocities in mount sin ja, the procedure of kobani.
but if you listened to the president earlier and he thanked a number of countris, it was russia, syria, turkey and iraq, and the syrian kurds. does that add salt to the wounds that the kurds have been feeling rather betrayed by the u.s. pullout of northern syria? i think right now, i ve talked to the head of the u.s.-backed forces, right? the sdf was part of a partner source that the u.s. fought for the last half-decade with. this really is a momentous victory that was five years in the making with this partner force that started in 2014 in the town of kobani when isis had never had a single battlefield defeat. it was steaming across the region and just absolutely taking town after town. so i think this is a partnership, and one thing that isn t often captured is there is deep friendship between u.s. forces and the syrian democratic
first of all, this is the second administration that felt it was elected to end wars in the middle east rather than begin them. and really an administration that had pushed very hard for the end to the caliphate and had given folks the resources. but having spent a lot of time with the people, especially the young women who were the ground force in the fight against the islamic state, i just want to take a moment to remember the more than 10,000 young people, women and men from the syrian side, along with the fewer than five, but still every gold star family is a tragedy in the united states, american who s were killed in the line of battle, fighting the islamic state. this is a real victory that was five years in the making. if you think that this started in the summer of 2014, in the fight against kobani, a town nobody had heard of before the fact that this group of this band of kurds that people didn t