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Our Gallant Allies, the Kurds (and other fairy tales)
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[The final assumption of the narrative regarding Trump’s moves in Syria is that by moving its forces away from the border ahead of the Turkish invasion, Trump harmed regional stability and America’s reputation as a trustworthy ally.
On the latter issue, Trump has spent the better part of his term in office rebuilding America’s credibility as an ally after Obama effectively abandoned the Sunnis and Israel in favor of Iran. To the extent that Trump has harmed US credibility, he didn’t do it in Syria this week by rejecting war with Turkey. He did it last month by failing to retaliate militarily against Iran’s brazen military attack on Saudi Arabia’s oil installations. Whereasthe US has no commitment to protect the Kurds, the US’s central commitment in the Middle East for the past 70 years has been the protection of Saudi oil installations and maintaining the safety of maritime routes in and around the Persian Gulf.
The best move Trump can make now in light of the fake narrative of his treachery towards the Kurds is to finally retaliate against Iran. A well-conceived, and limited US strike against Iranian missile and drone installations would restore America’s posture as the dominant power in the Persian Gulf and prevent the further destabilization of the Saudi regime and the backsliding of the UAE towards Iran.]
OK here is what is happening in Syria. We have 50 troops there plus some weapons makers who are testing weapons in limited live combat conditions. We are keeping this little war going, not to protect the Kurds, but to test military AI. We are literally running product tests for American AI weapons that are being tested on the Turks and Syrians.
This is not a real war. Its a limited battle that we keep going. It’s whole purpose is a test lab. Its like a war game. But in this case its live, so there are real casualties.
Caroline is such a voice of reason when all is said and done.
He didn’t betray America. I don’t care about the Kurds or Syria or the middle east.
There is a giant fly in the ointment Caroline Glick spreads out.
Her hard links between the YPG and Iran are a fiction of hers, as is her fiction that the YPG and Assad are allies.
Iran has no real trust for any Kurds, as it has its own suppressed Kurdish minority to contend with.
If the YPG and Assad were even on “friendly” terms, Assad would not have suppressed them forever, in the past, until his country was destabilized by a fight that Erdogan was supporting, against Assad.
It is clear that the Pentagon is the organization that sits opposed to major changes in U.S. long term strategic policy. Not surprised there, it has always been the most resistant to change. It prefers the knowns and hates having to figure out how to go with a paradigm change.
We owe the Kurds nothing. We couldn’t possibly have betrayed them.
That’s why they made a deal with Assad...right?
The Kurds hve fought with us against the Islamofascists, and they have been protecting Christians, Yazidis, and other victims of the jihadis.
Erdogan is an Islamofascist aligned with Russia and Iran. He is an enemy of the US and the Wet, despite Turkey’s membership in NATO.
I’m not sure Erdogan will let us just stand aside. I think he wants a fight with the US, which will draw Russia and Iran into the fight to support him, and then he intends to invoke Article 5 and try to get NATO to fight us. The Islamists WANT a world war to hasten the arrival of the Twelfth Imam.