[Texas Fossil]

Turks started it to distract from ending ISIS in Raqqa.

They use any pretext, or no pretext to kill Kurds. Has been going on a long time.

Kurds did not start this one, but they did retaliate. This is outside the area where US presence was protecting this from happening.

As for me? I support the Kurds. Yes, I know Turkey is NATO, but they are also now a Dictatorship. Erdogan the Islamist must be forced to back away from this.

[grania]

I support the Kurds, too. But not if they attack Turkish troops in Turkey, or Syrian government troops or those who are supporting the government troops in Syria. Can't imagine how else that web gets untangled.

When it's done, Kurdistan should get to carve out of northern Iraq an independent Kurdistan, but not one that takes away Syrian, Turkish, Jordanian, or Iranian territory. Any other way ISIS can't be disintegrated.

I'm not defending Turkey. I'm realistic that Edrogen is real unamused that there was a huge coup attempt against him, and the CIA might have been supporting it.