Obama talks a big game about bringing down ISIS, but his actions don’t really back up his words. So American veterans have taken matters into their own hands and flown themselves to the Middle East to join Kurdish fighters who actually are fighting ISIS — and for some reason, Obama has given Turkey the OK to bomb the Kurds, even though there are dozens of former US troops with them.

Retired US Marine Jordan Matson joined the YPG Kurdish fighters to fight ISIS in September 2014.

Jordan told Greta Van Susteren in February that there are 40-50 Americans fighting with Kurdish forces against ISIS.

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He also said the Kurds are very hospitable to Christians and Yazidis.

British ex-soldiers are also fighting with Kurdish forces against the Islamic State.

James Hughes, 26, and Jamie Read, 24, are fighting alongside other foreign volunteers with the Kurdish People’s Protection Units.

This week Obama gave a green light to Turkey to bomb the Kurds.

Turkish jets struck camps belonging to Kurdish militants in northern Iraq this weekend. This was Turkey’s first strike on the Kurds since a 2013 peace deal.

Americans and British soldiers are fighting with Kurds against ISIS.