aaron starr manager of legislative affairs. an ordinance to amend the planning code to extend the date by which a must have received a permit to operate from the department of public health to be deemed contemporary cannabis sale used from december 31 to december 31, 2020. amend the planning code to extend the duration of the temporary cannabis retail sales up to three years to expire on january 1, 2021. >> good evening, commissioners. kyle seeley from supervisor mandleman office. thank you for hearing this item today. as aaron mentioned the ordinance before you will amend the planning code to extend the date by which grandfathered medical cannabis dispensary must receive a permit to operate from the department of public health from december 31, 2019 to december 31, 2020. it will also extend the duration of a temporary cannabis retail sales use from a 13 years. this will give grandfathered medical cannabis dispensaries until december 31, 2022 obtain the permits to operate and it will allow temporary cannabis resale uses to be p

. >> aaron david miller, to hear barbara starr recite in this document that the syrian kurdish leader says you have given up on us, leaving us to be slaughtered. what do you see has happened here? >> you know, i think the kurds misread the american commitment. we've been betraying the kurds and allowing our own national interests to trump theirs, no pun intended, over the decades. i think this relationship between the u.s. and the kurds was also a transactional one. we didn't have the heft, the leverage, the will frankly or the skill on the ground it seems to me to sustain this relationship over time. it was only a matter of time. you have a very risk averse president, donald trump, eager to fulfill a campaign commitment, eager to allow his own personal sensibilities and own politics to override the american national interests. it's only a matter of time before this transactional relationship between the u.s. and the sdf and other affiliate kurdish groups gave way to a more important relationship with the turks. we find ourselves now, fred, in a situation in which the real power broke