When news of the pause in the onslaught first broke, veteran British peace negotiator Jonathan Powell told me: "What the Americans have actually done is facilitated the surrender of the allies, the Kurds."

When news of the pause in the onslaught first broke, veteran British peace negotiator Jonathan Powell told me: "What the Americans have actually done is facilitated the surrender of the allies, the Kurds."https://t.co/xhyGlFfWqr https://t.co/RZhoOiADsE

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