Posted on 10/16/2019 8:31:20 PM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
A tremendous deception has been perpetrated on the American public.
The fake news, Democratic Party, and neoconservatives within the GOP have gone into hysterics over President Donald Trump’s recent decision to remove troops from Northern Syria, in what they are calling a betrayal of Kurdish allies.
Big League Politics has reported on the Kurds setting ISIS terrorists free at several key junctures throughout 2017 when the war against the caliphate was not yet decided. We also reported that the Kurds have been releasing ISIS terrorists in recent days as a ploy to lure U.S. troops back into the region.
The reason why a Kurdish terrorist group in Syria has gained widespread mainstream esteem is because of a public relations campaign that originated during the Obama administration.
US Special Operations Command commander General Raymond Thomas explained durig a 2017 interview how he worked as an Obama administration official to help re-brand the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), an infamous terrorist organization, as the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to help them gain sympathy with the unsuspecting American public:
The PKK is a group that formed as a Marxist-Leninist resistance faction that has sought to unite the Kurds, and targeted Turkey with acts of terrorist violence for over three decades. They are listed formally as a terrorist organization by the United States, European Union, United Kingdom, Turkey, and Japan.
“The Kurds will defend themselves to the end, so long as this is the Turkish approach – of course the PKK will escalate the war. Not only in Kurdistan, but in the rest of Turkey as well,” PKK leader Cemil Bayik said in a BBC interview in 2016.
Over 40,000 people have died in the ongoing conflict between the PKK and the Turks. Turkish dictator Recep Erdogan has taken a hard-line approach in stopping the terrorist violence of PKK.
“It is not possible for us to continue the peace process with those who threaten our national unity and brotherhood,” Erdogan has said about the PKK.
Now, Turkey is conducting military exercises against the re-branded PKK in Northern Syria, and they believe their adversaries deserve no sympathy.
“It is clearly obvious that our operation targets not the Syrian people, or the Kurds there, but terrorists,” Erdogan said about their recent military operations against the Kurds.
“Turkey’s military power is sufficient to crash the terrorist organization in a couple of days in all of the operation zone, if we did not act sensitively [on civilian casualties],” he added. “But we work as precise as a jeweler and show utmost efforts not to allow even one civilian’s nosebleed.”
With the facts being made clear regarding the Turkish-PKK conflict, President Trump’s decision to remove U.S. troops from harm’s way makes more sense.
If you want to go and define the PKK, they are a socialist organization, with a military-like ‘arm’, and very close to being called a cult.
They conduct kidnappings, sabotage, assaults, assassinations, etc. They are heavily involved in blackmail, money-laundering, and drug-dealing. From the trafficking business of drugs into Europe....the PKK clears one billion-plus dollars a year. They may not make the drugs or do the dealing on the streets of Italy, but they helped to get the drugs to the distribution points.
They are not your friend. Nor are the PKK a friend of Syrians, or for that matter a friend of Turkey. The longer that the US sat there in northern Syria...the more entrenched that the PKK became and in hopes of a mafia-state in the end.
Bookmark
Absolutely fabulous link. At the segment link is another link to the full hour presentation.
Worth the time to listen.
The straught Turk propaganda line.
Bump
I’ll get back to you later on this slander.
She showed her weakness...and the President smiled.
And by the way....how dare you point your finger at the President.
Take it up with the General. There is video.
General Raymond Thomas, commander of US Special Operations Command (SOCOM) explains how they knowingly whitewashed the US-designated terrorist group #PKK in order to arm and support them in #Syria. (2017 interview) #SDF
Here’s a link with reset starting time, taking the viewer directly to the comment about rebranding:
https://youtu.be/wCqCnLjSx7M?t=1500
bmp
1. There was no “whitewash”.
2. The “rebranding” fooled no one, in or out of Syria. EVERYONE knew the YPG were taking the lead in the SDF.
3. Why the SDF? Because the YPG were not going to be fighting alone, and they did not fight alone. They were the best armed and the most experienced but they were not alone.
4. The groups gathered together under the SDF banner were Kurds, and yes mostly YPG, and Syrian Arabs, Syrian Turkomen and Syrian Christians who all lived in the region of Syria ISIS was attempting to take over.
NO WHERE and at no time was anyone misled that the YPG was not taking the lead in the SDF.
“Democratic”. Yes. The areas that wound up being protected by the SDF conduct their local affairs democratically.
Notice how the slanderer did not continue the whole interview with the Colonel. All they wanted was a part that looked “bad”.
Maoist apologist.
You’re not related to LeBron are you?
Erdogan apologist.
I dont like Turks, Syrians, Kurds, Iranians, etc. Sand vipers in a sand pit, the lot of them.
I know the Kurds did not storm Raqqa on the backs of unicorns screaming “America Akbar” and in fact conscripted middle school aged kids into their various militias. They were our mercenaries and were as a special bonus fighting for their own land.
So let me be clear.
Turks suck
Kurds suck
Syrians suck
Iranians/Persians suck
Iraqis suck
Saudis suck
Jordanians suck
Palistinians suck
Pakistanis suck
etc.
They all are a bunch of 5th century savages and suck.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.