No Time To Think By Hank Silverberg When I began writing this blog 20 months ago, my idea was to look at some events of a particular week, take some time to do some research and then provide some well thought out commentary on the week's news. It hasn’t happened that way. Events are moving so fast, and there is little time to think about them before the next shell shock changes everything. This past week was a perfect example. Last weekend we got word that President Trump had made a cruel and poorly thought out decision to pull U.S. troops out of northern Syria and abandon our long time allies, the Kurds. It was an invitation for the erratic leader of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to send troops into that area and chase out the Kurds, whose desire to create an independent Kurdistan has been a thorn in the side of the leaders of Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran for decades (see map). The Kurds have been U.S. allies since the 1990’s when Americans for