[silverleaf]

The YPG apparently has been courted by US planners (I use the word loosely) as “Plan B” to make trouble for Assad, given that increasingly obvious US ties to “Plan A” ISIS have become politically inconvenient, given ISIS’ growth from a JV “Syrian rebel” team to a worldwide web of stone cold trained Islamic killer squads

However, the US “plan B” was apparently not coordinated with Erdogan, who inconveniently failed to be overthrown and turned to the Russians as his own “Plan B” to stay in power. He has more concern for the Kurds than he does for Assad, who he now finds “acceptable” as a neighbor, at least for now

Meanwhile we have a LTG Townsend as “Commander of US Forces in Syria and Iraq” newly named and who has been tasked to enforce an undeclared no-fly zone by threatening to shoot at Syrian and Russian planes who come too close to our (hundreds? thousands?) of illegally inserted US forces in Syria embedded with the YPG

Doncha just love the Obama doctrine? Order the US military to do anything anywhere, play Candyland with international geopolitical strategy, and let the US GOP Congress eat corn dogs at state fairs and write articles about the lack of conservatism and competence of Donald Trump

[mvonfr]

The lovely thing about the Obama Doctrine is that nobody understands it, and least of all, Mr. Obama.

Those who think they understand it end up royally screwed.