To the Editor:

Re “Pullback Broke Trust Between Partners Bonded by Battle” (front page, Oct. 14):

“ They trusted us and we broke that trust. It’s a stain on the American conscience .” These words of frustrated honor by an American Army officer who had been among our boots on the ground in northern Syria are a devastating comment on President Trump’s amoral and impulsive decision to abandon both our Kurdish allies and our national dignity.

Up until now, it’s been the image of Donald Trump with his hands on the nuclear launch codes that’s filled millions of Americans with dread over the implications of his presidency for national security and world peace. Not much attention was paid to what cataclysmic awfulness he could purvey with a simple telephone handset receiver.

But given the implicit green light he gave in a call to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for the Turkish military offensive against the Kurds, now we’ve found out.

Chuck Cutolo

Westbury, N.Y.

To the Editor:

It may be too late for the Kurds in Syria along the Turkish border. But it is not too late for the United Nations to create an independent Kurdistan. In 1 947 the United Nations — with the backing of the United States and the Soviet Union — proposed the creation of a homeland for the Jews in British Palestine, in response to the killing of six million Jews in Europe.