This is aimed right at the Kurds.
Bingo
Yup. The only reliable large group of people in Iraq or Syria.
Yup.. While I don’t believe the Kurd’s “love” us (and why would they given the past 15 years); they are certainly the one’s we could have worked with most had our country put the right damn people in office in DC.
All I can say is I hope the best for them. In our current environment, no one else is going to watch out for them minus the brass ball’s that are going over their on their own dime.
Yes it is against the Kurds and there are a couple of Americans fighting with them... There was a thread on the 26th about the US going into Syria:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3304966/posts
And that same morning I read:
“Turkey will ‘never allow’ Kurdish state in Syria warns Erdogan”
“Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Turkey will never allow the establishment of a Kurdish state in Syria after major gains by Kurdish fighters.
In a strong-worded warning late on Friday, Erdogan accused the Kurds of ethnically cleaning other communities from land they have taken after pushing back Islamic State forces from the Turkish border.
“I say to the international community that whatever price must be paid, we will never allow the establishment of a new state on our southern frontier in the north of Syria,” Erdogan was quoted by Turkish media as telling guests at a dinner to break the Ramadan fast.”
Excerpted from: http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/world/turkey-will-never-allow-kurdish-state-in-syria-warns-erdogan/article/436897
So, this administration couldn’t get the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, so why not Syria? Lots of empty towns to populate with radicals. I better go back and re-read the OT and find out which nations survive. Damascus doesn’t. It’s obliterated.