Off on a Tangent

I went to look up Uncle Ken's link about the Kurds and went off on a tangent, ending up in the ancient empire of Assyria.  I remembered that they were the guys who conquered Israel and made off with the Ark of the Covenant back in the BC years.  The Assyrians were ultimately conquered by the Babylonians, who were in turn conquered by the Persians, who liberated the Israelites that had previously been carried off into captivity by the Babylonians.  Cyrus (the great) of Persia restored some of the temple artifacts that had been looted by the Assyrians, but the Ark of the Covenant was never recovered, until it was liberated from the NAZIs by Indiana Jones, who foolishly turned it over to the US government, which stashed it in a warehouse somewhere and subsequently lost track of it, but that's a whole nother story.  Be that as it may, I was surprised to find out that the Assyrians are still around in their old neighborhood, although they don't rule it anymore, and have joined with the Kurds to fight against ISIS.  Good for them!

It appears that the reason Trump is pulling our own troops out of Syria and Afghanistan is that he thinks the war is over, but he ought to know better.  There are two main reasons why a president screws up like that, either he doesn't know what he's doing, or he knows exactly what he's doing, and I don't know which one is worse.