It is not just the Trump announced pull out that puts the Kurds at risk, it is their failure to even be present at the Astana talks that started in December 2016. At that point, the Obama administration was pointedly excluded while Lavrov said that Trump was invited to join when he became President. Those talks are using the December 2015 unanimous UN security council resolution as their legal basis. That resolution calls for a UN supervised election where exiles can vote. https://www.un.org/press/en/2015/sc12171.doc.htm

The Trump administration NEVER engaged in those talks. Almost as damning, while the US military continued speaking of the antiISIS effort in the same way as the Obama aministration did, the Trump State Department never spoke of the stabalization effort after regaining land. So, diplomatically, he did not have to pull his administration out, because he never engaged.

The problem with that is that it means that Assad, Russia, Iran and Turkey are the only voices at the table. It is ludicrous to suggest that Turkey, which is part of NATO and was technically in the coalition, is the voice of the rebels who fought ISIS. It was in their self interest to do so, as ISIS attacked them at places like Kobane. However, they were the boots on the ground that let Trump claim we pushed ISIS out of Ragga and they now risk being destroyed by Turkey, a country that was regularly accused of actually helping ISIS.

I am haunted by King Mithridates V's son "Chrestus" who keeps
popping up in my studies. Chrestus has a son who appears
to become the "King of Cappadocia" and his son (or grandson)
ends up dying in Rome in AD 17 and this son also fits the description
of the Patriarch Jacob. This son had a brother who was also famous.

I'm thinking that Christians should protect Kurds, that's all.

...they were with the Armenians. And the Assyrians. And the Greek.

Bolton cannot act as a lead negotiator without Senate confirmation -- which he would never have gotten (in the last congress).