There’s more behind the link, by the way. That one should have auto-excerpted and didn’t.
Updated FR Excerpt and Link Only or Deny Posting List due to Copyright Complaints
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1111944/posts
That's one narrative.
Here’s a better link. The article won’t scroll off of the page at this site.
Turkey warns France ‘no benefit’ in protecting Kurd militia
(The Local)
https://www.thelocal.fr/20181225/turkey-warns-france-no-benefit-in-protecting-kurd-militia
If the game is to create a Kurd-state out of the northern quarter of Syria...then you’d have to admit to nation-building and that’s not the job of the US (or for that matter France). Once ISIS was put down as a threat, the US should pack up and leave.
The invasion from the south is overwhelming local resources. 100s of thousands of County money is spent burying and locating family members of DEAD invaders.
They need to put some dog tags on with next of kin contact.
“...(YPG)...Critics say thousands of Daesh members are still in Syria and could pose a threat with some analysts concerned the withdrawal could lead to a resurgence of Daesh....”
How many franicesses will be blamed?
It would be in much better interests of the Saudis to protect the Kurds, and supply them with the necessary support. The Kurds are targets of Turkey, Daesh, and the Iranians, and for that matter, the Russians, but for a much less degree of engagement.
Carving out a stable state of Kurdistan, composed of ethnic Kurds, from the territories of Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran, and including a corner of Azerbaijan, a former province of the old Soviet Union, would do much to stabilize a buffer state with highly motivated and fiercely independent population. True, most of the Kurds are Muslim, but they feel little brotherhood with either the Alawites of Syria or the Shi’a of Iran.
The Peshmerga is one of the best of guerrilla armies in the world, and organized on a national basis, they could be a potent force for throttling the ambitions of either the Iranians or Turkey.
Read the recent Greenfield take on it...Trump is being anything but a “surrender monkey”...
Sorry for the rant on Christmas but after spending two years of my youth chasing gooks all over S.E. Asia it makes me sick to my stomach to see what our military has devolved into and we're still 0-5 since WW2.
Yes,I am a Marine and can and do get on "Mouthy" Mathis loud and often.He's a punk with a ghostwriter.
Who even knew the French were operating in Syria before last week?
I’ll wager they’re gone before the end of January.
“It’s our turn to be surrender monkeys.”
It’s hard to be a ‘surrender monkey’ when you still haven’t been told what you’re fighting for.
OK, so what is your vision?
The Middle East is occupied by hundreds of millions of Arabs, Persians, and Turks. They practice an alien faith and have social and governmental structures which are foreign to us.
Do you think they can become liberal democrats if we only allow the sons of deplorables to continue to lose arms, legs, and their lives, indefinitely? Do you think they will become like us if we conquer the region with a non-existent 80-100 division army and rule as colonizers for 100 years?
What, exactly, do you think should be done?
The Turks want to rout the Kurds that we have been allied with. I would stay there.
Do Freepers know that about 70% of the Turks in Germany are actually ethnic Kurds? From the less civilized Eastern Turkey.
This was a mistake allowing Turkey to occupy part of Syria. Assad could have cleaned up what’s left of ISIS. And the Kurds would still be alive.
Daesh in Syria is a threat to who?
Assad. Russia. Iran.
Are we going to fight ISIS to help Assad Russia and Iran?
If not WTH are we there?
Questions Trump asked Bolton, and got no answer.