This, the obvious, and trying to fix it. For once, americans are coming home from a middle eastern tar pit rather than staying forever, and we ought to be celebrating that. Across the country, people are, but in washington, people are apoplectic. They are telling us we are not allowed to leave syria, its immoral, they say. Its a betrayal. Not a betrayal of americans, that wouldnt be a problem here in washington. It happens here every day. Its much worse than that. Its a betrayal of an ethnic group in the mountainous parts of southwest asia called the kurds. What exactly do the people on tv know about kurds . Nothing, really. It would be shocking if anyone at msnbc had ever met occurred, and yet suddenly today everyone washington seems thoroughly outraged on my behalf. Its psychotic, it makes no sense. You can go to the slaughter at the hands of turkey. Im washing my hands of. What is the message to abandoning the syrian kurds who have fought so valiantly for the u. S. . Now it seems if