Joey Lawrence, a professional photographer and war documentarian, discusses Obama’s initial military intervention in Syria to save the Yazidis from a massacre on Mount Sinjar in 2014; why Turkish President Erdogan dares attack the Kurdish YPG militia with embedded US troops nearby; and whether the US will turn its back on its Kurdish allies once the war against ISIS is over.
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